THE big money making holidays are all but gone for the ski areas, which translates into cheap skiing for the rest of the year during a time when conditions are usually at their best.
From here on in you start to get great deals on lift ticket prices. This past week, right after Presidents’ week ended, many areas started offering discounts. It is all when the sun is a little higher, the days are longer, the snow is softer and the skiing is great.
Hunter is offering ValuePASS+, which is good from March 1 through next season for $229, with unlimited skiing and riding midweek through 2005. Can’t beat that, plus there are a few wrinkles if you want to pay even less.
For $229 (that seems to be a hot number) you get unlimited skiing seven days a week at five different resorts for the rest of the season starting Sunday. The pass is good for Killington and Mt. Snow in Vermont, Attitash in New Hampshire and Sunday River and Sugarloaf in Maine and can be purchased at any of the areas. Granted it will be difficult to ski all these resorts if you work for a living, but if you use the pass at just the two areas in Vermont it would be worth it.
The fact is, just about every resort from Maine to California is offering lift ticket deals for the rest of the season. And while the prices maybe getting shorter, the bases are still deep from a snowy and cold winter, which translates into a long spring season at bargain prices.
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Diana Golden was a lady with enormous courage and strength who showed the world that you can be a great skier despite being physically challenged, It is only fitting that there is a Diana Golden Adaptive Ski Race.
The race, established through Disabled Sports USA after Diana’s death last year from cancer, will have some of the best physically challenged athletes in the Northeast at Sugarbush Resort this weekend to compete.
Level I events are monitored by the United States Disabled Ski Team to identify potential team members. The top woman and top two men will be awarded scholarships to the Hartford Ski Spectacular Race Training Camp held next season in Breckenridge, Col.
Saturday’s race is at 10 a.m. and will feature teams and individuals from all over the Northeast. For more event information contact J.J. Toland at 802-583-6314, or visit Sugarbush.com.
The FDNY’s 31st Annual Firefighters Races, which drew 720 racers competing for the elusive FDNY trophy, raised more than $35,600 dollars for the FDNY Firefighters Burn Center Foundation. The FDNY Burn Center helps support the Cornell University Burn Center and Skin Bank, as well as funds a Burn Camp for Kids surviving massive burns.
Taking home first place honors in the FDNY race, a combined team of Engine 63 (Bronx) and Ladder 16 (Manhattan). The winning team managed to speed down the Giant Slalom Course as a group while carrying a 50-foot length of hose and wearing full turnout gear and helmet in just 20.02 seconds.
