Snowfalls give lift to skiers
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The arrival yesterday of badly-needed snowfalls across much of the Alps was a relief for the thousands of Britons booked to go skiing in Europe over the coming two weeks.
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At the Winter X Games this year there will be a massive jump for a new event in skiing and snowboarding called big air, where new tricks are bound to be attempted.
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Snow fell on Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, for the first time in 63 years on Wednesday, stirring excitement and curiosity among residents and their children.
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Two snowboarders lost in the mountains were rescued by helicopter Tuesday after they endured three frigid nights holed up in snow caves that are credited with saving their lives.
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By Katherine Conrad, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 6--BEAR VALLEY -- When five men determined to make Bear Valley a year-round resort destination rode the new Polar Express ski lift for the first time last month, they promptly tumbled off into the snow.
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Search teams scoured snow-covered slopes on Sunday for two missing skiers who were last seen at a Lake Tahoe resort during a storm that dumped up to 2 feet of snow.
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By Katherine ConradBEAR VALLEYSTAFF  WHEN FIVE MEN determined to make Bear Valley a year-round resort destination rode the new Polar Express ski lift for the first time last month, they promptly tumbled off into the snow.   Of course, it was all in good fun.
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&quot;This too shall pass.&quot; This biblical line is a familiar one to skiers and riders. The whims of autumnal weather allowed ski areas to get out the snow guns when the window of cold opened, but also shut the window with balmy temperatures like on Thanksgiving day.
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Traditional ski resorts around the West are providing escapes from the well-groomed and well-used slopes.
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Austrian Marlies Schild savored her second victory of the Alpine ski season, winning a slalom on home snow in Semmering on Wednesday, when she followed Tuesday&#39;s giant slalom victory.
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American Daron Rahlves made his first serious attempt at skiing since a dramatic crash nine days ago, completing a men's training session Thursday ahead of the Hahnenkamm downhill this weekend.
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A number of skiers were believed  caught in an avalanche Friday in an out of bounds area near  Park City, Utah, an official said.
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Plenty of snow has been shoveled since Sports Illustrated called the 1994 US Alpine ski team the "brigade of lead-footed snowplowers" just before the Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway. Writer E.M. Swift had no way of knowing that the team would win four Alpine medals in those Games, but he was basing his none-too-inaccurate assessment of US ...
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Bretton Woods, one of the fine snow producers in New Hampshire, can now lay claim to being the largest -- by trail count -- ski area in the state.
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Cross country skiing's World Cup season openers next weekend were moved to Gallivare, Sweden, north of the Arctic Circle, because of a snow shortage in Ostersund.
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Thomas Grandi of Canada kisses his ski after winning a men&#39;s World Cup Giant Slalom in the Austrian ski resort of Flachau, December 21, 2004.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ Weird weather and global warming are claiming a place at the top of the nation's political agenda these days. But while policymakers debate what to do about them, the ski industry already has adjusted its sails.