Ski News

If you were looking for a free hotdog and beer last week, you could have done far worse than swing by the Great Outdoors parking lot off Century Drive, where professional skier Chris Davenport had splayed his 44-foot-long RV across six parking spots and fired up the grill.

The Calgary native won eight Paralympic medals - four silver and four bronze - during her 17-year career on the Para-Alpine team.

Freeskier Angeli VanLaanen , 26, is working on a documentary film, called "LymeLight," that follows her professional ski career and her battle with Lyme disease.

Several Whistler Secondary School track and field athletes earned berths in the Lower Mainland zone championships on the strength of great results at last Thursday's qualifying meet.

$22.50-$27.50. www.cltcomedyzone.com . One of the "Original Kings of Comedy" , Hughley – now 49 – brings his stand-up act to the NC Music Factory stage.

LAVAL , Quebec & RICHMOND HILL, Ontario -- Without the need to have customers sign up or provide cellphone numbers, Circle K's Mac's convenience stores in Canada will soon be "pushing" messages to the phones of people walking or driving by their locations.

Join US Ski Team Members Stacey Cook, Steven Nyman, TJ Lanning and John Teller for a challenging three day weekend workshop May 26-28. Focus on learning the technical and tactical elements of the Speed disciplines.

Set beneath the brightest full moon of the year, Mammoth Mountain hosted the West Coast Invitational on Saturday night.

The Tioga Pass Gate on S.R. 120 was closed to vehicles last weekend, but not to cyclists, and members of Mammoth's Eastside Velo Club took full advantage.

Mike Riddle of the Whistler-based national halfpipe team competes in this year's Winter X Games at Aspen.

A dryslope ski area in England called Sheffield Ski Village burned down on Sunday, April 29, according to reports from England's South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue department.

The commercial value of action sports stars is nothing new. Ski legend Glen Plake endorsed K2 skis shortly after starring in Greg Stump's 1988 film, The Blizzard of AAHHH's . Thousands of skiers, snowboarders, skateboarders, surfers and other action sports athletes have since been rewarded with equipment sponsorships.

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As part of Avengers week in The Vancouver Sun, actor Mark Ruffalo talks about the challenging task of taking on the role of the Hulk in the upcoming movie The Avengers in Wednesday's edition.

Overcoming adversity is a common theme among adventure films. To beat the odds and triumph in the face of certain doom is the universal thread that runs like a current through the exciting stories that captivate audiences year after year.

Ski-cross racer Matt Brady wraps up season on a high note. Ski-cross racer Matt Brady, seen here competing at the FIS Holeshot Nor-Am Cup at Copper Mountain, Colorado in January, was third in the open class of the U.S. nationals earlier this month.

California's Northstar-at-Tahoe closed for the season two weeks ago, but they kept a 22-foot superpipe and an 80-foot jump in perfect condition for a Vitaminwater private team training camp that started April 24 and ends today, April 30.

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