Hey,
I've been checking out this forum for a little while now and seeing this thread thought i might be able contribute. I do a lot of the photography for Sno Mountain and on monday I got an email from them which had a list of what is planned for this season. It looked like a mass mailing so I am a little surprised no one on this board got it.
I'm not quite sure what the rules on posting material like that are, but there is some good info in this anouncement, so here's brief summary: They discounted season pass until mid september, they added a student season pass, they hired an olympic skier (Holly Flanders) to be a race coach, they are expanding the terrain park to four trails and including two half pipes (13 feet and 22 feet),are building an indoor skate park, they got a Burton learn to ride program, installed magic carpet lifts (like the one used for tubing) on the bunny slope, added a day care, a zip rider (which i can't wait to get some pictures from), and a bus that's supposed to go around to college campuses to and from the mountain.
also in the email was some event dates which i can comfirm because i had already been contacted about covering several of them (though from what I understand the dates on are not exactly set in stone). Anyway the events are the Jeep Terrian Challenge, the Mountain Dew Vertical Challenge, the Mid-Atlantic Snowboard Series, and a couple of PARA Ski races. Whats strange is that they also mention Loki's Slope Style (which was a blast last year) but don't mention the end-of-the-year Slush Style which really awsome (you can check out my clips and pics on Sno's website) and i hope they are planning to do it again.
Well that pretty much covers what was in the anouncement, I'm definitely excited about this ski season (not a whole lot better than being able to work and ski at the same time), and yeah it sucks there no high speed going in this year (next year hopefully) but it may be a small consolation to know that the last time i was up at Sno they were overhaulin' most of the lifts.
-Steve
p.s. (if you guys want me to post the actual doc its no problem)
