...other produce from local farmers.Ed Weibrecht was a mechanical engineer who moved to the area to ski at nearby Whiteface Mountain, where he's still a part-time ski instructor. He purchased the inn from the Wikoff family in 1976 and built...
...Columbus Day. But it was the 1932 Olympics that made Lake Placid famous around the world. And with the opening of Whiteface Mountain Ski Center in 1958, town leaders began dreaming of another taste of the Winter Games. "The town was getting a...
...Waterville Valley Resort in New Hampshire; Jay Peak, Killington, Mount Snow and Stratton in Vermont; and Hunter and Whiteface mountains in New York. In addition to its monthly magazine, Yankee is including a special "Celebrate Autumn" guide in...
...landing in the final round, finished third with 172.52. The World Cup schedule continues Saturday with moguls at Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid and ends Sunday with a second aerials competition.
...minutes, 24.64 seconds in temperatures in the 40s, which contributed to the deteriorating snow conditions at Whiteface Mountain. Miller finished 0.31 behind, capping a week in which he won the super giant slalom, slalom and combined...
...Sandy Caligiore, spokesman for the Olympic Regional Development Authority, said the five- to six-acre fire on Whiteface Mountain was expected to be completely extinguished by Tuesday evening. An employee first noticed a puff of smoke that blew...
...said. "In the end, we decided to do the race, even though conditions were a little difficult." Conditions on Whiteface Mountain proved ideal for Ed Podivinsky. He won gold for Canada in the second men's downhill, again spoiling the aspirations...
...Olympic berths were at stake in earlier events, but Saturday's competition was reduced to an exhibition run down a Whiteface Mountain trail that was too wet and soft for the downhill and super-G races. Street, the two-time World Cup downhill...
...margin. A 57-degree temperature change in a bit over 24 hours played havoc with the Olympic trials schedule at Whiteface Mountain, site of Alpine competition. Men's and women's downhill races were postponed because of fog triggered when...
...Following Tremblant were Smugglers Notch, Vt.; Killington, Vt.; Sugarloaf, Maine; Holiday Valley, N.Y.; Whiteface Mountain, N.Y.; Stowe, Vt.; Okemo, Vt.; Sugarbush, Vt., and Stratton, Vt. This is the first year that Smugglers...
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