To crib a line from Shakespeare, a colossus or two has come to bestride the Sierra Nevada.
One would be the combination of the Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows winter resorts under ownership of the KSL Corp., producing an entity that supplies 6,000 skiable acres served by 43 lifts, with the two mountains linked by a free shuttle; the other is Vail Resorts, combining Northstar-at-Tahoe, Heavenly and Kirkwood to present skiers and snowboarders with 10,100 acres on three mountains served by 63 lifts.
Olympic skiing champion Lindsey Vonn has launched an audacious and ground-breaking bid to compete against male opponents at a World Cup event on November 21.
The 2010 downhill gold medalist in the Vancouver Games believes that squaring off against the best men’s skiers in the world will boost the image of the women’s tour, which she dominated again this past season to cement her place as world No.1.
Vonn has sent a letter seeking special dispensation to  … More