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The 12th annual Pats Peak Mountain Bike Festival weekend in Henniker, N.H., is June 8-9. Choose from 24-, 12- or 6-hour, X-Country Challenge and Downhill Thrill races.

The 24-, 12- or 6-hour competitors can ride solo or in 2-, 4- or 5-person teams. It begins at 12 noon Sat., June 8. This is an endurance competition held on a circuit course of wooded trails, unpaved roads, along with a variety of obstacles that tests strength and technical ability. You can pre-ride the course for free when it opens on a soon-to-be-announced date. 

Slop into the challenge of the second annual Mountain Mucker 5K Obstacle Race at New Hampshire’s Mount Sunapee Saturday, June 1.

Competitors will negotiate 14 obstacles along the course that winds up and down the mountain slopes. 83 teams have already registered.

Veteran U.S. Ski Team coach Forest Carey has been tabbed to leads a new World Cup Multi-Team of Ted Ligety and Bode Miller during the coming Olympic season, according to men’s alpine Head Coach Sasha Rearick.

Canterbury’s Mt Hutt ski area in New Zealand’s South Island recently received its second major snowfall in two weeks. Opening day is set for June 15. 

The latest storm dropped 20cm (just under 8 inches) over the entire mountain. 

Former National Team Coach Eric Harlow has been tapped to direct the Eastern Alpine Regional Program for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association.

 

Harlow has extensive coaching experience, having served as FIS head coach at Burke Mountain Academy, women’s head coach at both Stratton Mountain School, both in Vermont and Rowmark Ski Academy in Salt Lake City, Utah.

California’s Big Bear Lake lodges are offering free gas cards worth up to $100 for a two- to four-night stay in participating lodges this spring, summer, and fall.

A test of lower slope lighting earlier in April could lead to night skiing and riding at Steamboat Resort in Colorado.

Brian Krill has been named Club Development Manager in the Sports Education Department of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association.

Anybody in the area not ready to hang ‘em up will want to be at Sugarbush, Vt. tomorrow (May 4) when skiing and riding will be free. Same deal Sunday if the snow holds up.

The team responsible for building those innovative courses and projects on snow that send the likes of Shaun White, Louie Vito, and Mark McMorris soaring will show us how it’s done on National Geographic Channel's  “Mountain Movers.” 

It’s not over ‘til the Fat Lady rides, so to speak. A number of resorts across the North American alpine snowbelt are doing their best to offer skiing and riding as long as the snow and weather holds out. 

From the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades of the West to the far northeastern corner of Maine, ski resort employees by the thousands are deserting their jobs and their rented houses, rooms, cubicles as their winter jobs in ski resorts melt in the sun. 

The success of this spring’s Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships at Squaw Valley resort in California that brought thousands of spectators to the slopes has led to a return engagement March 19-23, 2014.

The area’s 2013 fishing officially opens in May. Summer and fall feature three fly fishing tournaments and two kid-friendly derbies.

Back in August, USA Pro Challenge CEO Shawn Hunter said his cycling race would one day return to Vail. Turns out he’s a man of his word.

A major development plan for Mt. Bachelor is now set for implementation, after surviving a final 45-day comment period through the U.S. Forest Service. Officials at the central Oregon resort now say they will prioritize projects and hopefully begin work this summer.  

The endless season at Boyne Mountain, Mich. continues this weekend as resort officials have decided to keep its lifts running to take advantage of the still solid snow conditions.