More fresh snow on Queenstown’s premier ski areas, on top of consistent snowfall throughout May, is delivering spectacular pre-season conditions.
Coronet Peak ski area, scheduled to open on Saturday, 6 June, has received 50 – 100cm of snow in four days, resulting in an 80cm base at the top of the mountain and a 50cm base at the bottom.
Hamish McCrostie, Coronet Peak Ski Area Manager, said they couldn’t have asked for a better build up to season opening.
“It’s just fantastic. We’ve had consistent snow falls since early May which is unusual but very welcome,†he said. “We’ve started … Details
A group of adventure-seeking entrepreneurs embarks on the wildest journey of all – launching a high-end travel company in the middle of an economic meltdown.
TORDRILLO MOUNTAINS, Alaska (Fortune Small Business) — i am standing near the peak of a craggy, white-capped mountain in Alaska. With me are three world-class adventure-sports athletes.
Big-wave surfer Dave Kalama clicks into his skis while surf superstar Laird Hamilton straps on an unusually long snowboard in the knee-deep snow. A few yards away, tromping to the edge of a cliff to survey our exit options, is Jeremy Jones, Snowboarder magazine’s eight-time Big Mountain Rider of the Year. The bright red and blue A-Star helicopter that just deposited us here takes off in a blur of white powder, spins 180 degrees and disappears over a spiny ridge.
We peer from a tiny knoll down thousands of feet into …Â Details
So, I know there’s a bit of a rumor going around the youth culture/action sports/industry insider/shred dog circles that sportswear mogul, Nike, is going to buy Burton Snowboards.
As it turns out, this is not true. But more on that later.
What I am interested in here is not only that an until-recently-non-endemic company is looking to buy a boardsports company, but that there is yet another buyout in the air. Let’s remember that in February of 2006, Burton bought Channel Islands … Details