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Spring at Lake Tahoe means some of the best sunshine-stoked Sierra skiing, telemark skiing and snowboarding at any of the region’s famed resorts.
With March being among the snowiest in recent memory, resorts may be winding down from their winter season, but they are also gearing up with activities and promotions, as well as discounts on next year’s season passes.
Sierra-at-Tahoe offers Ski Green Day, Telegrass Festival
Once again Sierra-at-Tahoe and Northstar are offering the popular Double Whammy Season Pass for the 2010 ski season. For details go to www.sierraattahoe.com … Details
Mount Hood ski areas report a layer of fresh powdery snow has made for great skiing conditions on this last day of spring break.
A survey of ski areas and skiing conditions on the mountain:
• Mt. Hood Meadows www.skihood.com got the most snow, with 24 inches accumulating since Saturday morning, bringing the snowpack to 160 inches in the base area. With temperatures dropping to the low teens early this morning, the snow remains in good shape for skiing.
• Timberline Lodge www.timberlinelodge.com saw the … Details
 Risk is one of the foundations of snowboarding, part of what makes it worthwhile and fun. Stoked Mentoring takes that notion of risk and reward and throws in the late 180: using life skills gained through action sports to open up new worlds for at-risk youth.
Stoked recruits teens from low-income, high-density urban areas in NYC and LA, those streets and schools where there’s a strong chance that they’ll fall into negative behaviors: gang involvement, drug abuse, dropping out, roller-blading etc. By partnering these teens with successful adults and having them learn to surf, skate and snowboard together, i.e. taking their beats on-hill at the same time and getting back up … Details