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Ski resort

Ski resorts often have other activities, such as snowmobiling, sledding, horse-drawn sleds, dog-sledding, ice-skating, indoor or outdoor swimming, and hottubbing, game rooms, and local forms of entertainment, such as clubs, cinema, theatre and cabarets.


Canadian Society of Transplantation

Its annual scientific conference, which is usually held in Spring at a ski resort, brings together CST members, representatives from transplant centres, allied health professionals working in the field, personnel from organ and tissue retrieval organizations and others from the Canadian and international transplantation communities.

Fairfield, Idaho

The Sun Valley ski resort is approximately 45 highway miles (70 km) northeast, up the Big Wood River Valley along State Highway 75, the Sawtooth Scenic Byway.

Haus im Ennstal

Haus is a well-known ski resort and has hosted World Cup alpine races several times, and the women's events of the World Championships in 1982.

Haut-Folin

There is a 40 km of cross-country skiing ski resort.

Isère

Isère features many ski resorts, including the Alpe d'Huez, Les Deux Alpes, the 1968 Winter Olympics resorts of Chamrousse, Villard de Lans, Autrans.

La Coma i la Pedra

The local economy is traditionally based around livestock raising, although there is also a ski resort in the pyrenean massif of Port del Comte and a power station at Gafa.

Simon Dumont

On April 11, 2008, Simon Dumont set the current world quarter-pipe height record at Sunday River in Bethel, Maine.

Tête de l'Estrop

The easiest route for the summit starts fron La Foux d'Allos, a ski resort in the commune of Allos, and reaches the top through the eastern slopes of the mountain.

The Blue Mountains, Ontario

It is named for the Blue Mountain, and hence the economy of the town is centred around tourism, particularly on the Blue Mountain ski resort and the private Craigleith and Alpine Ski Clubs.

Tikjda

Tikjda is a ski resort located in a mountain range named Djurdjura, north of Algeria, with an altitude of 1,600 metres (5,250 feet), in the province of Bouïra.

Todd Lamirande

Lamirande became mired in a controversy on June 24, 2001, when the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) seized his vehicle and videotapes containing footage of members of the Native Youth Movement as they protested the development of Sun Peaks Resort, a ski resort in Sun Peaks, British Columbia, 55 kilometers northeast of Kamloops.


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2007 Asian Championship of Ski Mountaineering

It had the official partnerships of Otari village authorities, Tsugaike Kōgen Ski Resort, Nagano mountaineering federation and other groups.

Baba Mountain, Macedonia

It is one of the leading tourist areas in the country, since it is a well-known ski resort, along with Ohrid, Prespa, Dojran, Popova Šapka, and Kruševo.

Blatten

Blatten bei Naters, a ski resort and village in the municipality of Naters in the Swiss canton of Valais

Bretton Woods

Bretton Woods Mountain Resort, a ski resort located in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

Champoluc

Champoluc is a well-known ski resort, part of the Monterosa Ski area which connects the upper reaches of the valleys of Ayas, Lys and Valesia (the latter is located in the Piedmont).

Chamrousse

Lance Armstrong won the stage (#11) on 18 July 2001, when he took just over an hour to complete the hors categorie climb from Grenoble to the ski resort.

Colorado's Copper Triangle

The Colorado Cyclist Copper Triangle event is sponsored by Saab, Crocs, Copper Mountain Ski Resort, The Village at Copper and numerous others, while the title sponsor is Colorado Cyclist.

Cranmore

Cranmore Mountain Resort, a ski resort in North Conway, New Hampshire, USA

Division of Indi

Other towns in the electorate include Rutherglen, Mansfield, Beechworth, Bethanga, Myrtleford, Corryong, Tallangatta, Euroa and a number of other small villages (notably including the ski resort of Falls Creek).

Fernie Alpine Resort

During spring 2009, Fernie Alpine Resort was temporarily transformed into the fictional Kodiak Valley ski resort, circa 1986, for exterior location shots for the Hollywood film Hot Tub Time Machine.

FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1989

The 1989 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships were held between March 1st and March 5th at the Oberjoch ski resort in then-West Germany.

FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships 1993

The 1993 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships were held between March 11th and March 14th at the Altenmarkt ski resort in Austria.

Geography of Denver

Additionally, there is the Ski Train provided by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad which takes passengers between Denver and the Winter Park Ski Resort (operation suspended as of January 2009).

Hudson Bay Mountain

It is the location of the Hudson Bay Mountain Resort (formerly Ski Smithers) ski resort.

Jabba

Malam Jabba, a hill station in Pakistan, which is home to the Malam Jabba Ski Resort.

James Barrett McNulty

He attracted Steamtown, USA, a Hilton Hotels & Resorts (for which grand opening McNulty hired Guy Lombardo’s orchestra to play) and the Montage Ski Resort to Scranton, Pennsylvania, which is on a thoroughfare that “Jimmy” stated a million Canadians passed down on their way to gamble in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

La Rosière

La Rosière, Savoie, a ski resort in the French commune of Montvalezan

Liptovský Mikuláš

The area is also well-known due to its location close to the biggest ski resort in Slovakia, Jasná.

Mission Ridge

Mission Ridge Ski Area, a ski resort near Wenatchee, Washington, United States

Mount Baldy

Mount Baldy Ski Lifts, a ski resort on Mount San Antonio in Los Angeles County, California

Mount Dobson

Located 2.25 hours from Christchurch and 3 hours from Queenstown, it claims an easy access road, the highest car park of any ski resort in New Zealand, and the earliest start to the season in 2006.

Neraidochori

Neraidochori is only 5 km away from the nearby Ski resort of Pertouli and only 2,5 km from Pertouli.

Nordic Valley

Wolf Mountain ski resort, which was named Nordic Valley until June 2005

Nordic Valley, Utah, the unincorporated community surrounding the ski resort

Orgeix

It is located just two kilometers from the hot springs and ski resort Ax-les-Thermes and European Route E09

Perisher

Perisher Ski Resort, formerly known as Perisher Blue, a ski resort in the Australian Snowy Mountains, New South Wales

Province of Avellino

Tourist destinations are the Sanctuaries of Montevergine, San Gerardo Maiella of Caposele and San Francesco a Folloni; the ski resort of Laceno; the archeological areas of Avella and Aeclanum, the Lancellotti castle in Lauro, the medieval town of Gesualdo, the Roman ruins of Abellinum and the early Christian basilica in Prata.

Rocky Valley Dam

The Rocky Valley Dam is located on the Bogong High Plains, near Falls Creek, Victoria, a winter ski resort.

San Glorio

The issue has been raised before the European Parliament, with Euro-MP David Hammerstein requesting the European Commission to look into the funding of the project, claiming that the regional government receives EU funding because of the park's required protection as a most seriously threatened habitat, while at the same time applying for subsidies for the jobs at the projected ski resort and hotel complex.

Sella Nevea

Because both Italy and Slovenia are members of the European Schengen area, skiers are able to freely cross the border between Italy and Slovenia, effectively merging the Sella Nevea and Bovec ski resorts into one large ski resort covering both sides of the Canin mountain.

Ski Lift No. 1

Bobsledder Billy Fiske and Ted Ryan, an heir of Thomas Fortune Ryan, had been looking for somewhere in America where a ski resort similar to those in Europe could be established.

Snow Valley

Snow Valley Mountain Resort, a ski resort in Running Springs, California, United States

Snowbird

Snowbird, Utah, an unincorporated area and associated ski resort

Spademan binding

Driving to every ski resort in range with a few hundred pairs of bindings, he finally convinced some ski patrollers at Squaw Valley and Boyne Mountain to try them out.

Tärnaby

18 km further north in the Parish of Tärnaby is the village Hemavan, a ski resort, with an airport and start point of the Kungsleden trail.

Teine

Sapporo Teine, a ski resort and amusement park in Teine-ku, Sapporo, Japan

The Canyons

Canyons Resort, formerly The Canyons, an alpine ski resort in Park City, Utah

Tiffany Shade

After Tiffany Shade album's release, the band made numerous appearances in their hometown of Cleveland, Ohio and at the Sugarbush ski resort in Warren, Vermont before disbanding in late 1968.

Tochal

A gondola lift, named Tochal Telecabin runs from Tehran to the Tochal Ski Resort and the modern Tochal Hotel, all as a part of Tochal Complex.

Trstenik Airport

The airport is within the closest vicinity (60 kilometers-about 50 minutes by Bus, instead 2 hours 45 mins from Niš Constantine the Great Airport transfer) to the famous Kopaonik mountain ski resort, and is also 20 kilometers from the Goč mountain.

Virginia Littell

In 2002, Intrawest Corporation, a client of Brazer & Littell, worked out a deal with the state of New Jersey to preserve land on Hamburg Mountain in Vernon Township, New Jersey near the Intrawest ski resort of Mountain Creek.

Whitecap Mountain

The Whitecap Mountains is a ski resort located in the Town of Anderson, Iron County, Wisconsin (postal address Upson, Wisconsin, and located west of Montreal, Wisconsin).