A ski resort is a ski area with a village and/or accommodations and other amenities at the base of the mountain. Ski resorts often have other activities to engage in besides skiing and snowboarding, such as snowmobiling, sledding, horse-drawn sleds, dog-sledding, ice-skating indoor swimming and hottubbing, game rooms, and local forms of entertainment. Ski resorts may be self-contained and entirely devoted to ski tourism (for example Vail ski resort) or they may be near a village or town that had a significant existence before the ski resort was built, such as Jackson Hole, Wyoming or Park City, Utah.

A ski area is a term that may refer to the part of a ski resort where the skiing trails are located, or it may be a separate area for skiing and snowboarding that does not have most of a resort's amenities other than those that are vital for snow sports. At a minimum, however, a ski area has food, rental equipment, parking facilities and a lift system catering to the sports of skiing and snowboarding. Normally located in high mountain areas (or at least on well-built-up hills) for optimum snow coverage, they have become ubiquitous in areas where skiing is a popular pastime. The runs or trails in these ski areas are usually marked and known as pistes. Ski areas typically have one or more chair lifts for moving skiers rapidly to the top of hills, and to interconnect the various pistes. Rope tows can also be used on short slopes (usually beginner hills or bunny slopes). Larger ski areas may use gondolas or aerial trams for transportation across longer distances within the ski area.

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Snow reports and conditions, open lifts/slopes, 00:00 UTC Wednesday 6 January, 60 ski resorts: www.euroweather.net/english/snow
euroweather (EuroWEATHER) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:00:46 -0000
Snow reports and conditions, open lifts/slopes, 00:00 UTC Wednesday 6 January, 60 ski resorts: www.euroweather.net/english/snow
Story on upswing in ski visits at Rockies resorts: http://tinyurl.com/yc4v7zh
OutdoorWriter (Trent Edwards) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:53:38 -0000
Story on upswing in ski visits at Rockies resorts: http://tinyurl.com/yc4v7zh
@clairey77ODT evening budy...how's your snow...do you have any ski resorts near where you live in the highlands?...i want to be there...NOW!
lets_get_this (TEETH RULE) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:39:23 -0000
@clairey77ODT evening budy...how's your snow...do you have any ski resorts near where you live in the highlands?...i want to be there...NOW!
'Ski resorts fight global warming (Telluride Daily Planet).. http://bit.ly/8gYZYr'
WarmImpact (GlobalWarming) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:10:57 -0000
'Ski resorts fight global warming (Telluride Daily Planet).. http://bit.ly/8gYZYr'
#Snow - 3 Ski Resorts near #Nice have more than One Metre of snow. - www.j2ski.com/ski_resorts/Airports/Nice_snow_reports.html
J2SkiSnow (J2Ski Snow Reports) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:10:19 -0000
#Snow - 3 Ski Resorts near #Nice have more than One Metre of snow. - www.j2ski.com/ski_resorts/Airports/Nice_snow_reports.html
#Snow - At least 25 Ski Resorts near #Innsbruck Airport expect Fresh Snow within 48 hours. - www.j2ski.com/z/hp
J2SkiSnow (J2Ski Snow Reports) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:08:19 -0000
#Snow - At least 25 Ski Resorts near #Innsbruck Airport expect Fresh Snow within 48 hours. - www.j2ski.com/z/hp

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