Vail Resorts, Inc. said its rental/retail operations generated $61.0 million in revenue in the quarter ended Jan. 31, 2010, up 3% from the same quarter a year earlier. Season -to-date through March 7, those revenues rose 5.5%. Still, the company sa...(read all)

Through January, total equipment (boards, boots, and bindings) sales were down 9.7% in units and specialty retail was off 8.4%. In the West, the industry’s biggest region, specialty retail unit sales were off 18.1% while alpine skis jumped 1.5%...(read all)

According to the SnowSports Industries America (SIA) Retail Audit Report, Snow Sports market sales reached $2.26 billion in January with a 0.4% gain in dollars sold compared with August through January last season. Significant declines in the West an...(read all)

Sims pro rider, Erich Dummer, (left), instructs a student from SOS Outreach at Breckenridge. This week, 38 students will receive instruction from Dummer and two other Sims pros. While some riders gassed up their sleds for some big mountain riding,...(read all)

Travis Kennedy is now a part of the Technine team, according to TransWorld SNOW: Technine is proud to announce the addition of Travis Kennedy to the Technine Team. Kennedy will be getting on the full Technine program and riding boards, bindings and...(read all)

Spyder, the world’s leading skiwear and mountain-based apparel brand, ranks 10th in the sports category in Fast Company's annual Most Innovative Companies issue. They honor major brands whom are leaders in 24 categories, including advertising a...(read all)

Reservations and occupancy in North American mountain resorts continued to edge up through Jan. 31 though remaining slightly behind last year’s low figures, according to Data released by the Mountain Travel Research Program (MTRiP).  Act...(read all)

Lenders have postponed until next week a foreclosure auction of the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort hosting Winter Olympics events, several media outlets reported. Creditors of Intrawest Holdings, which owns stakes in Whistler Blackcomb, agreed to de...(read all)

Peter Glenn of Vermont is closing its doors at the Berlin store after more than 50 years in business. It's the ski retailer's only Vermont location. A statement from the company said, "After more than 52 years selling Skis, Snowboards, Skateboa...(read all)

Snowsports Merchandising Corporation (SMC), the buying group of specialty ski and snowboard shops in the wintersports industry, celebrated its 40th anniversary at its recently concluded trade show, Winter Sports Market. "It only seemed fitting...(read all)

Christy Sports, which operates more than 40 stores in Colorado and Utah, said it has expanded its ski and snowboard rental delivery service, Door 2 Door (D2D), to include retail purchases. The company is first rolling out this program in the Steamb...(read all)

Intrawest, which is scrambling to help its parent company raise cash to avoid default on $1.7 billion in debt, said it reached an agreement to sell another of its resorts.   The Canadian-based company said it reached a definitive agreement to s...(read all)

Wagner Custom Skis, the Telluride, Colorado-based leader in custom ski fitting science, announced today that factory team rider Travis Wolfe has won this year’s event at the Subaru Telluride Freeskiing World Tour Qualifier. Placing First in the...(read all)

SnowSports Industry of America Snow Show—January 29, 2010— The North Face, the world’s premier supplier of authentic, innovative and technically advanced outdoor apparel, equipment and footwear, today announced snowboarder Xavier de...(read all)

An analysis of 12 studies of ski helmet use suggests that helmets are effective in reducing the risk of head injury among skiers and snowboarders and found no significant association between helmet use and an increased risk of neck injury, according...(read all)