The Fortress Investment Group LLC which owns Intrawest, which owns the leading Canadian resorts of Mont Tremblant and recent Olympic venue Whistler, is reported to have reached agreement with its creditors to extend the time it needs to refinance its debt to mid-April.
In a week where the Winter Olympics came to an end, the main skiing news unsurprisingly came from the slopes and streets of Whistler Blackcomb and Vancouver. But, don’t despair. If after 2 weeks you’ve had enough of staying up late to watch another yet member of Team GB not make the podium (apart from [...]
A new study by the University of California Davis has determined that creating a ski run by clearing trees and foliage manually but leaving the underlying eco-system otherwise intact is better than using heavy machinery to re-grade the slope.
Panorama ski area in Canada’s British Columbia was sold for an undisclosed sum by former owners Intrawest recently.
The centre has a number of new initiatives for this year including the new Showoff Terrain Park alongside the Mile 1 Quad. This new freestyle terrain has quickly been rarted the biggest and best in the Rockies [...]
In a week where Amy Williams romped home with an Olympic gold medal, the rest of the world has been getting busy with all sorts of ski stuff. The snow leopard is ready to ski, Italy will welcome skiing soldiers to the World Winter Games and there’s another new iPhone ski app. It’s hard to [...]
Plans for a major ski resort in the Indian Himalayas have suffered a new set back as the government have issued a cancellation notice for the plans, first launched with a wave of positive PR six years ago but bogged down for the past few years in legal arguments.
