Crystal Mountain Resort is offering discounts in January to encourage new skiers and snowboarders to hit the slopes as part of a nationwide initiative with the National Ski Areas Association.
The Snow Play Area at Paradise in Mount Rainier National Park opened Saturday afternoon. The road from Longmire to Paradise opened earlier in the day, according to the park's Twitter feed.
Crystal Mountain has best day of young season, and a series of vigorous frontal systems is predicted to hit western Washington in the days ahead.
Crystal Mountain buzzed with activity Thursday as ski patrollers marked runs, cooks loaded freezers and the beer man rolled kegs off his truck, all in preparation for Friday's season opening.
Thanks to 11 inches of new snow, Crystal Mountain made it official this morning. The ski area will open at 9 a.m. Friday.
Crystal Mountain officials are counting on a midweek storm to bring enough snow to allow a limited opening Friday. The ski area announced its plans Tuesday based on the winter storm forecast for today and Thursday.
Crystal Mountain officials are counting on a mid-week storm to bring enough snow to allow a limited opening Friday. The ski area announced its plans this afternoon based on the winter storm forecast for Wednesday and Thursday.
With the possible exception of “cerveza gratis,” there isn’t a Spanish phrase Northwest skiers and snowboarders like hearing more than La Niña.
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There is no getting around the fact that skiing is expensive.
Contrary to popular belief, Washington has more than the six ski areas in the Cascades and two near Spokane. Eastern Washington is dotted with tiny ski areas that are as much about community as they are about the sport.
It wasn’t so long ago that you might have been tempted to leave your cellphone in the car when you hit the slopes.
Women skied wearing bikinis and men wore board shorts Saturday as Crystal Mountain opened for skiing in July for only the second time in its history, a spokeswoman said.
Let’s face it, the closest you’ll probably ever get to making the Olympics will be when the Winter Games come to Vancouver, B.C., in February.
A lift ticket this year will set you back as much as $63.
The economy seems to be thawing a bit, but few skiers and snowboarders are feeling rich these days.
The Big Six – Washington’s Cascade Range ski areas – have almost everything a skier or snowboarder needs for a lifetime of winters.
Snowfall stats, lift ticket prices for Washington ski areas.
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Contrary to popular belief, El Niño is not Spanish for “bad ski season.”
KELLOGG, Idaho – It’s not even lunchtime and Christopher Bess has a problem.
For a while it looked like snowboarding would take over the skiing world.
CHICAGO – A ballroom in a four-star Windy City hotel – or any place in Illinois for that matter – hardly seems like the spot for a lesson on skiing moguls.
You won’t find much new around the Northwest ski scene this season, but the blame shouldn’t be placed solely at the feet of the struggling economy.
When Lisa Lawrence lived in Moab, Utah, you’d have had to tie her to a snowplow to get her to Washington state for a ski vacation.
Even if you ski or snowboard all winter for the rest of your life, odds are you probably won't do everything the Northwest has to offer.
Even Tiger Woods would have been impressed with the golf score Kendall Dreher put up in March.
Unless you plan on holding down seat cushions in the lodge this season, it probably will pay for you to do a few exercises to get in shape before you hit the slopes.
Lift tickets at Washington’s six major resorts are up 5.2 percent from last year on weekdays and 4.9 percent on weekends this season, costing skiers and snowboarders an extra $2.16 a day.
SANTIAM PASS, Ore. – There’s more to Oregon skiing than Mount Bachelor, and there’s no better way to figure this out than a trip to Mount Bachelor.
If you spent a day at each of Washington’s ski areas, you’d be on the road for 21/2 weeks.
Perhaps nobody has experienced more of Crystal Mountain than Keith Rollins.
T.R. Revere skied at Stevens Pass for the first time in 1962 when he was 2 years old.
Martin Volken gets a kick out of seeing adults coming into his North Bend ski shop to buy Alpental stickers.
Lori Sanwall knows she has it good.
If you ski or snowboard, you don’t need to speak Spanish to understand an El Niño is “muy malo.”
The first time Torin Koos tried cross-country skiing, he remembers screaming and crying.
Temple Cummins has done just about everything there is to do on a snowboard.
Regional skiing
Washington resorts
Washington has no destination ski resorts like its neighbors, so it can be a considerably cheaper place for a family vacation.
You know you are giving your demo skis a good test run when you end up on your face with a mouthful of snow.
Each season it seems like it’ll get more difficult for manufacturers to come up with new gear. But each season, with a tweak here and a gimmick there, they find ways to get you to open your wallet. With the arrival of earphone beanies and wavy-edged snowboards, 2006-07 is no exception.
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