The immediate need for New York, Long Island, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania in the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy is to return to normalcy. The process figures to be protracted. But, what are the implications for mountain travel?

A partnership with Sierra-at-Tahoe on the south shore means the Tahoe Super Pass offered by Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows on the north shore has taken on added value. 

I didn’t start wearing a ski helmet until the 90s. By then I had spent more than 20 years lid-free. I wore a bike helmet, but my parents wore cute ski hats and so did we on the hill. 

Get ready to celebrate the beginning of the 2012 holiday season at many of your favorite ski resorts and towns. Thanksgiving day, Nov. 22, starts it all.  

Saying an offer of $20.5 million by Entertainment Properties Trust, a Kansas City-based real estate investment firm, “will bring the highest and best return to creditors and parties in interest,” DC Development LLC, Wisp Resort  owners, asked a bankruptcy judge for approval.

Betsy Brauer, an Appleton, Wisc. businesswoman and Gary Mayer, a ski resort entrepreneur in Killington, Vt. received the 27th annual BEWI Award for “their many contributions to the success of BEWI-produced Boston Ski & Snowboard Expo."

Here’s the question: Will Priceline’s acquisition of Kayak this week affect the travel side of the snowsports industry?

Joe Sargent, a co-founder of Killington in Vermont has died some 56 years after he jump-started the process that led to the opening of the famed “Beast of the East.” He died Nov. 9 in West Hartford, Ct. at age 83. Cause of death has not been released.

Ski Dazzle 2012 is about to kick off the nation’s largest consumer ski and snowboard show and sale, featuring over 325 exhibitor and sponsor booths. 

Avis Budget Group rental cars and Intrawest’s resorts and other properties have joined forces in a multi-year partnership for co-marketing each other’s brands.

Alas, there is no "perfect" ski, although skis in general are vastly superior to those available only a few years ago. Nevertheless, each year we publish a list of skis we consider to be the best available, a list we call Realskiers' Skis of the Year.

Freestyle legend Wayne Wong; moguls champ Jeremy Bloom, World Champion Kirsten Clark; snowboarding pioneer Craig Kelly, ski instructor Horst Abraham; and resort developer Hans Geier make up the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame Class of 2012.

Get an early taste of skiing or snowboarding for the 2012/13 season by checking out the following deals. Then, just enjoy. 

With the early snowfall in the California mountains, SoCal shredders and plankers alike are itching to head to the hills for those precious first turns.

Two professional instructors from the Lake Tahoe, Calif. region have been named ambassadors for the Learn to Ski and Snowboard/Bring A Friend snow sports initiative.

A special offer from some 100 hotel properties in Engadin St. Moritz, Switzerland means you can ski or ride on 350 kilometers of pistes for just $27 (CHF 25) per person per day.