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Friday, 30 August 2013Mountain High’s Anytime Season Pass Sale begins August 31st and prices are up to 53% off. For just $349 (Reg $749) guests can enjoy an entire season of skiing or snowboarding at Southern California’s closest winter resort plus receive three FREE days at 11 other Powder Alliance areas. That’s 33 FREE tickets! These resorts include Crested Butte, Snowbasin Resort, Sierra-at-Tahoe, Stevens Pass, Timberline, Schweitzer, China Peak, Arizona Snowbowl, Mt Hood Skibowl, Angel Fire Resort, and Bridger Bowl. Imagine skiing some of the best powder stashes in the West all for FREE with a Mountain High VIP Season Pass. Guests who order by September 10th also receive a FREE Buddy Ticket to Mountain High worth $69.00.
Says John McColly, CMO, “This is an incredible deal and something no other Southern California resort can offer. With a VIP Season Pass you get a full season of riding at Mountain High plus FREE tickets to mountains across Utah, Colorado, Montana, Washington, and more. Now that’s value!”
VIP Season Passes are good any day or night Mountain High is open with no restrictions. Other benefits include FREE tickets to the North Pole Tubing Park, early-ups on select days, monthly discounts for family and friends, $10 Off Adult ski or snowboard lessons, 10% Off non-sale retail items, and the ability to track your days ridden and share them with friends. As a Powder Alliance member, you are free to ski about the Western United States and find the best snow conditions & nearly limitless vertical feet. There are no membership fees, no collective pass prices, no additional charges of any kind. Simply show your 2013/14 VIP Season Pass and receive three FREE tickets any Sunday through Friday, non-holiday, at participating areas. Please visit http://www.powderalliance.com/ for a complete listing of dates and restrictions plus additional resort benefits. So go ahead and explore 3,000 acres at Snowbasin Resort, UT, dive deep into 480 inches of fresh snow annually at Stevens Pass, or ski into May at Timberline in Oregon. These benefits are FREE to 2013/14 VIP Season Pass holders of Mountain High.
For those looking to save even more money, Mountain High offers a traditional Anytime Season Pass for just $299 beginning August 31st. With this, guests can still ski or snowboard any day or night the resort is open and record their statistics but there are no additional discounts or benefits. The $299 Anytime Season Pass pays for itself in less than 5 visits. Children’s passes for ages 7 to 12 are also available beginning at $199 with the purchase of an adult season pass and $219 without. Kids six and under ski FREE when accompanied by a paying adult.
Ride the longest high-speed quad in the region at Mountain High’s East Resort. Ski under the stars at Mountain High’s West Resort. Or take the kids on an exciting winter adventure at the North Resort. Your season pass is good at all three areas and this year Mountain High has added a new Burton LTR Center, increased snowmaking, an updated smart phone app, new terrain features, and an enhanced family atmosphere.
Mountain High’s Anytime Season Pass Sale takes place August 31st through October 31st, 2013. As an added bonus, guests who purchase by September 10th also receive a FREE Buddy Ticket worth $69.00. Passes may be purchased online http://www.mthigh.com/season-pass-sale, at the resort, and by phone at 888 754 7878. Please note there is a $10 processing for all new passes purchased.
This is your season to explore. Get out there with help from Mountain High and the Powder Alliance. For more information or to schedule an interview, please contact Kim Hermon, Marketing Manager, at (760) 316-7830 or kim_hermon@mthigh.com.
Monday, 26 August 2013With the dust barely settled on the largest snow sports event ever seen in New Zealand, the Audi quattro Winter Games NZ 2013 has been hailed as the best World Cup event on the international circuit by leading governing body officials.
The Federation International de Ski (FIS) sanctions all World Cup events around the globe, including the six that made up this year’s Winter Games NZ. F IS Race Director, Roberto Moresi of Italy, said this year’s event delivered the best World Cup events in the world saying it was the best organised event overall, delivered by “totally competent and friendly local officials who work as an amazing team” and with excellent facilities. He also added that Winter Games NZ CEO, Arthur Klap, “does an incredibly good job”.
This opinion was backed up by FIS Technical Delegate, Peter Krogoll (Germany) who said the event was “flawless” and the Swedish coach, Patrick Nyberg, who declared Winter Games NZ “the best World Cup the team has ever been to”.
At the Closing Ceremony in Lake Wanaka, Head Coach of the US Olympic Snowboarding and Freeskiing Teams, Mike Jankowski, said the United States team loves coming to Wanaka and competing and training at Cardrona. “The people are so friendly and welcoming, it’s a beautiful area and we love the competitions. The organisers run a great World Cup for our athletes and we plan to come back for further training.” Jankowski was accepting the Winter Games NZ Nations Cup following the US topping the medal table during the Games.
Arthur Klap is delighted the feedback to the Games is so positive. “As an organising team we’ve had to work exceptionally hard through these Games to deliver the best events that we could so it is especially pleasing to get such glowing reviews from the FIS officials here at the Games,” he said. “It gives us the confidence to now move into the planning phase for 2015 and 2017 and lift the quality and profile of the Games even further.”
Winter Games NZ 2013 took place from 15-25 August at Coronet Peak, Cardrona Alpine Resort and Snow Farm, along with the Maniototo Curling International Rink, involving over 750 of the world’s elite winter sports athletes. Set against the spectacular backdrop of New Zealand’s Southern Alps, the Games also included a full Downtown Sessions festival programme featuring films, live music and entertainment in Queenstown and Lake Wanaka.
http://www.wintergamesnz.com
Saturday, 24 August 2013Cardrona’s Olympic halfpipe was packed with hundreds of spectators this morning as Kelly Clark from the USA and Japan’s Ayumu Hirano opened their FIS World Cup seasons with huge wins at the Audi quattro Winter Games NZ 2013. This was Clark’s 61st career win but Hirano’s first appearance at an FIS World Cup event, at the age of just 14.
Kelly Clark, the most successful snowboarder of al l time – male or female – and 2002 Winter Olympic gold medallist, ended the women’s series of first runs eleventh out of twelve after failing to land one huge trick. But like a true champion she took the title dropping in last with her second run. Her score of 89.50 edged out China’s Cai Xuetong who took silver with 85.50 after winning her earlier semi-final, while American Gretchen Bleiler hung in there for bronze with the highest first run score of 85.25.
New Zealand’s Bex Sinclair performed well in the earlier semi-finals, finishing sixth from ten and earning valuable qualification points for next February’s Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, even though she just missed out on a place in the final.
Clark’s run featured a frontside air, backside 540 mute, frontside 1080 lien, cab 720 mute, frontside stalefish. She said she was unfazed after a disappointing first run.
“You think of it as an opportunity. It’s easy to have things not go right and all of a sudden change your plans. For me it’s more important to be internally motivated, to stick to the plan regardless of what goes on around me. Today I thought, well hey, this is exactly what can happen at the Olympics – it is what happened to me at the Olympics last time! I just thought I could be conservative today and go for a podium finish, or I could rally and think of it as an opportunity and that’s exactly what I was able to do,” she said.
Ayumu Hirano used his awesome speed to land some of the biggest jumps ever seen in Cardrona’s halfpipe. His first run score of 92.25 was only threatened by teammate Taku Hiraoka’s second run which included the first 1260 in this year’s comp but was still only good enough for silver, scoring 91.75. Swiss rider Christian Haller was delighted to spoil a Japanese whitewash, edging out Ayumu Nedefuji for bronze with his second run of 82.50.
Hirano’s winning run started with a backside tail into frontside 1080 double cork tail, cab 1080 mute, frontside 1080 double cork and cab 720 indy.
Looking slightly stunned by his maiden World Cup victory he said: “I was aiming to be on the podium in this competition so I’m really happy about being in first place. This is my first World Cup and I still need to compete well this season to qualify for the Japanese team.”
Head judge, Ola Sundekvist signed off the snowboard events at this year’s Audi quattro Winter Games NZ: “I’m so happy that we got through the finals and we have a result. We got some really good riding in the finals and I’m so happy with the results. The pipe is excellent, it was a little windy and we could see that some people had issues with the wind but overall it was a really good competition.”
US women now have the chance to make a clean sweep of Winter Games NZ 2013’s freestyle events at tomorrow’s snowboard slopestyle final. Clark’s compatriots Devin Logan and Jamie Anderson have already taken out the freeski halfpipe and snowboard slopestyle comps respectively.
The Audi quattro Winter Games NZ 2013 sports programme concludes tomorrow (Sunday) with the FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup Slopestyle at Cardrona. The Downtown Sessions festival concludes in Queenstown with the Adventure Film Festival presented by Auckland Airport’s ‘Best of the Fest’ special showing at the Lotto Village Queenstown and the final race of the Winter Games NZ cyclocross series at Wynyard Freestyle Mountain Bike Park, Fernhill. Over in Wanaka, the official closing ceremony begins at 2pm at the Lotto Village on Ardmore Street and is followed by the JUCY Meltdown Concert at the Lake Wanaka Centre when NZ band, Tahuna Breaks bring the Games to a stomping close. Tickets available from the Lotto Villages in both towns.
http://www.wintergamesnz.com
Friday, 23 August 2013US athletes shone brightly under blue skies at Cardrona today in FIS Snowboard Halfpipe World Cup qualifying. On day eight of the Audi quattro Winter Games NZ, Kelly Clark and Gregory Bretz took out their heats and fellow Americans made up five out of the 16 automatic qualifiers for Saturday’s final.
Liu Jiayu of China won the other women’s heat with a score of 91.0 – just one point le ss than the score with which Clark won hers – and goes straight into the final with Gretchen Bleiler (USA), Arielle Gold (USA), Holly Crawford (AUS), Nadja Purtschert (SUI), Yuki Furihata (JPN) and Queralt Castellet (SPA).
Other men’s heat winner, Japan’s Ayumu Hirano will be happy to sit out the men’s semi alongside compatriots Taku Hiraoka and Ayumu Nedefuji plus Arthur Longo (USA), Nathan Johnstone (AUS), Christian Haller (SUI) and Tayler Gold (USA).
Speaking before heading up to watch the men’s heats, Kelly Clark – a gold and bronze medal-winning Winter Olympian – said she’d only been able to have four training runs before today due to poor visibility on Cardrona’s Olympic halfpipe.
“The pipe is so good and this is a great field. I’m really happy the weather cleared which made it possible to come out and land some good runs. For the final I’ll be doing a totally different run but playing to my strengths to keep it clean and big. Making it through was the name of the game today and I’m really excited about the final,” she said.
Those facing an intense semi-final competition include Switzerland’s Iouri ‘I-Pod’ Podladtchikov in the men’s comp and New Zealand women’s number one, Bex Sinclair for whom this was a first competition since knee surgery. She said she was ‘super happy’ with two consistent runs as she aims for Winter Olympic qualification.
“I came in just hoping to land a first run back in competition, and I landed both my safety and step-up runs. I’ve worked so hard in rehab, doing everything I had to do to get back to form. For the semi I’ll pretty much use my step-up run but go bigger and cleaner. No matter what happens, I’ve already got a chunk of Olympic qualifying points in the first comp of the season,” she said.
Head judge, Ola Sundekvist was very pleased with the day’s events: “So finally, we got it! We’ve had sunshine and perfect conditions. The only thing missing was a couple of days extra training and then we could have seen some insane runs, so hopefully we’ll have some great semi-finals and some super-great finals on Saturday.”
The Audi quattro Winter Games NZ 2013 continues tomorrow (Friday) with the second of two IPC Alpine Slalom World Cups at Coronet Peak, qualifying heats for the FIS Freestyle Skiing Slopestyle World Cup at Cardrona and semi-finals and medal games at Winter Games NZ’s elite curling tournament in Naseby. The Downtown Sessions festival continues with the Adventure Film Festival presented by Auckland Airport at Reading Cinema, Queenstown and Cinema Paradiso, Wanaka plus two drive-in movies at Remarkables Park, Queenstown and continuing entertainment, live music and medal ceremonies at the Lotto Villages in both towns.
http://www.wintergamesnz.com
Thursday, 22 August 2013Mile High by Carlton Dry
4 Star World Snowboard Tour
Perisher, 26th – 28th August, 2013
It’s about to thunder downunder as the Australian leg of the World Snowboard Tour prepares to hit the Snowy Mountains premier resort of Perisher for the Mile High by Carton Dry event over the 26th to the 28th of August. Boasting a star studded line up of the World’s best, the biggest Inter national turnout of professional riders are set to hit our shores ready to battle it out against local and cross Tasman talent in Australia’s biggest Slopestyle course. The level is guaranteed to be off the hook as riders look to post invaluable early 2013/2014 World Snowboard Tour points, the 20,000 USD prize money and start honing their skills in preparation for Slopestyle’s inaugural inception into the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.
In what promises to be an intense, action packed two days of top men and women’s Snowboard, Freeski and music events, the town of Jindabyne and resort of Perisher are preparing to roll out the welcome mat for athletes, fans and party goers to celebrate Australia’s biggest winter international event. Solid recent snowfalls in NSW and extensive snowmaking has guaranteed one of the biggest snowpark infrastructures ever built on the continent, opening with 4 solid jib features containing rails to gaps, gaps to rails, raised oil drum kicker and long down bar options before finishing up with a a 50ft step down kicker into a 60ft poppy rollover booter. Riders will be forced to extract every nuance of style and extract maximum points from all features and sections to take out the title of the Mile High by Carlton Dry champions for 2013.
A maximum of 80 riders are eligible to compete in this year’s event, where some of Australia’s best known riding exports including Robbie Walker and Scotty James are going to have to dig deep to retain the title on home soil (snow) coming up against international heavy weights including Chas Guildemond(USA), Kevin Backstrom(SWE), Sage Kostenberg(USA), Antoine Truchon(CAN), Tor Lundstrom(SWE), Hiraoka Keitaro(JPN), Nick Brown(NZL), Matts Kulisek(CAN) and upcoming rookies Rowan Coultas(GBR) and Roli Tschoder(AUT) amongst others. The Woman’s action promises to be equally as fierce where Jenny Jones(GBR) and Silvia Mittlemüller(GER) look as if to be early favorites based on previous World Snowboard Tour event results.
Be sure to be part of the action or stay in the loop with the latest developments, results and daily video updates as the Mile High by Carlton Dry Snowboard action kicks off on the 26th of August with the Qualification rounds moving towards the event’s finals scheduled for the 27th or 28th of August. Freeski action is set to join the jamboree on the 27th of August with the event culminating in post finals party The Station Resort, featuring an insane set by Seth Sentry, winner of Best Male MC at the Australian Hip Hop Awards, 2012.
Get ready to celebrate world-class snow action at Perisher Blue Resort brought to you by the Mile High by Carton Dry. For detailed schedule, updated riders list, booking and/or press information please check: www.themilehigh.com.au. For more information on the World Snowboard Tour:www.worldsnowboardtour.com. And for all things good that Carlton Dry have been up to got towww.carltondry.com.au
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