Alpine Skiing News

When you consider that a pair of American skiers swept the World Cup overall titles last year with virtually no slalom might, you start to realize how much easier it could be for Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn ...

European, Canadian and North American skifield operators are hoping for a record season.

The wife of a British champion jet skier who disappeared off Bali more than three weeks ago has made a direct appeal to Prime Minister Gordon Brown for help.

Jan Cutts has been at the helm of the Dillon Ranger District for only three months, but has already decided that the best part of working in Summit County is the high level of citizen interest in public-land ...

The Ski Channel plans to launch Christmas Day, with its on-demand mountain sports programming available in more than 15 million homes.

"The most wonderful time of the year" sadly also is a time when thousands of people end up in the emergency room for injuries suffered during holiday decorating, winter sports and outdoor activities.

Published: Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 14, 2008 at 2:40 p.m. A weak economy has ski resorts slashing prices, dusting off package deals that have not been available for ...

The proposed Bitterroot Resort passed an early hurdle from the Bitterroot National Forest on Monday.

Bode Miller lost to Jean-Baptiste Grange by 0.79 seconds Sunday in the World Cup slalom opener.

The Frenchman, who led Ted Ligety of the United States by 0.25 and Miller by 0.26 after the first run, had a two-run total of 1:44.49 down Levi's Black Course north of the Arctic Circle.

It was Grange's fourth career slalom victory after winning three races last season.

Ligety made a big mistake about halfway down the mountain and wound up 22nd in 1:50.78.

Benjamin Raich, a gate specialist from Austria who was runner-up behind Miller in the overall standings last year, missed a gate early in the second run and was disqualified. Raich was fourth after the opening run.

Now that she's the best cross-country skier in America, a two-time Olympian and winner of a World Cup race, it's easy to imagine Kikkan Randall as a little hellion on skis, anxious to jump off hills and go as ...

"I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords," Mark Twain wrote of Lake Tahoe in 1872.

Heavy snowfall in North America and Europe has seen several ski resorts open early.

A car heads down Little Cottonwood Canyon Road at the Hellgate Avalanche area near the Alta, Utah, on Friday, Nov.

The economy may be down, but hopes are high in the Sierra Nevada. For starters, gasoline prices have returned to sane levels - averaging $2.52 a gallon in California, down from the summertime average high of ...

American Lindsey Vonn picked up where she left off last season, winning the World Cup slalom opener on Saturday.

Vonn, who won her first overall World Cup title last season, overcame a big mistake late in the second run for a total time of 1:47.98 on Levi's Black Course.

'I was going a little bit too straight,' Vonn said. 'The course was getting a bit tighter and I was just kind of sitting back a little bit and pretty much stopped. I realized my mistake and just thought I had to give everything I had. I think I was really fast in the bottom.'

A construction problem delaying the opening of Aspen's most luxurious timeshare project now threatens to nullify several multimillion-dollar sales, according to a lawsuit.

Proposed U.S. Forest Service travel limits on hikers, bikers and ATVs in western Colorado's White River National Forest would keep motorized vehicles off about 150 miles of dirt roads while formally adding 280 ...

A businessman who was paralysed after skiing into a tree has won the bulk of his multi-million pound claim for compensation from a ski company.

Austrian ski hero Hermann Maier may have to to miss upcoming World Cup races in North America due to a back injury, the Austrian ski federation said on Thursday.

In a continuing effort to provide the best wireless service for skiers and outdoor enthusiasts, Verizon Wireless has activated a new cell site in Londonderry, Vermont.