“Come up and ski.” Unfortunately, those words that Jeff Kuller used to end many interviews will no longer be heard.

Participating in a fund called Waves For Winter will allow the Eastern Winter Sports Reps Association(EWSRA) to benefit colleagues who were severely affected by the recent Super Storm Sandy in the Mid Atlantic.

On-the-books occupancy for November 202 through April 2013 is down 3.9 percent compared to last winter, according to the monthly report just released by the Mountain Travel Research Program (MTRiP).

Midwest extreme skiing and riding cult favorite Mt. Bohemia has lost its triple chairlift until about the end of January, and it couldn’t have come at a worse time, just a couple of weeks before its annual $99 season pass sale.

The U.S. Alpine Ski Team was named following the Nature Valley First Tracks training event last week at Vail. The headliners: Lindsey Vonn, Ted Ligety, Julia Mancuso, and Bode Miller.

Fifty years is a memorable milestone and, to celebrate the Golden Anniversary of Vail’s founding, the Sonnenalp Resort in Vail is giving you a present.

Well, if your tastes run to all – we mean all – of the amenities awaiting your visit, consider buying this 20,000-square-foot chalet at Courcheval in the French Alps. As, the French say, “ooh-la-la.”

With a bounty of snow left behind by Superstorm Sandy, West Virginia’s Snowshoe Mountain Resort will kick off the 2012-13 season on Wednesday, Nov. 21.

Women’s World Cup champion Lindsey Vonn has gone home after two days in a hospital for intestinal pain.

Cold temperatures have settled in as thousands of snowguns are processing millions of gallons of water across resorts in the Northeast in preparation for the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend.

No other American ski area can stake a better claim to the term “old school” than the Alta Ski Area. The venerable Utah ski mountain will be 75 years old this year and, as the thousands of Alta loyalists know and love, some things just never change at the top of Little Cottonwood Canyon.

Most season pass sales have ended for Montana ski areas, but a number of lift ticket deals are still available. Some of the deals include transferable lift tickets or coupons and would make Christmas stocking stuffers. Check them out.

Lindsey Vonn remained hospitalized in Vail, Colo. Tuesday suffering from what is described as “severe intestinal pain” that has been affecting her for the past two weeks. 

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.