SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. March 26, 2008—The final stop of The North Face Masters competitive big mountain snowboarding tour arrives at the famed Alyeska Resort in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains April 2-6, 2008. The two-stop tour is the first competitive snowboarding series specifically tailored to fill a competition gap in the sport of big mountain snowboarding. After a sold-out first stop at Snowbird, Utah, where nearly 100 male and female riders proved big mountain snowboarding is thriving, tour organizers, athletes, sponsors, and media look forward to the next progression of big mountain riding in Alaska. Complete, same-day coverage of The North Face Masters Alyeska competition will be broadcast on thenorthface.com/masters. Continue reading…

The Big Easy launches website for it’s 2008 summer camp along with their $100’s for 100 promo. Continue reading…

Girdwood, Alaska –November 15, 2007 – With the 130 inches that fell since November 1, Alyeska Resort mountain crews have been hard at work preparing the upper-mountain for the first opening of the 2007-2008 season. The upper mountain boasts 84 inches of snow pack, while midway has 48 inches, and the base has 22 inches. Continue reading…

GIRDWOOD, AK – Alyeska Resort announced today that it was offsetting the carbon footprint of 100 percent of the energy used by its Tram by purchasing 403,200 kilowatt-hours of annual renewable energy over the next ten years. Alyeska Resort’s purchased the carbon footprint offset through a partnership with Denali Green Tag’s Tour Green Program and Bonneville Environmental Foundation’s (BEF) SkiGreen program which provides clean energy options throughout the State of Alaska. “The Denali Green Tag program affords the resort and its customers an opportunity not only to offset much of Alyeska’s carbon footprint, but to do so in support of renewable energy resources right here at home, more specifically the Fire Island wind project,” commented John Byrne, Alyeska Resort owner. “I would like to thank Larry Daniels, Jason Lott, and Rosey Fletcher for bringing this issue to the forefront. Continue reading…

Anchorage, Alaska, Oct. 3, 2007- Alyeska Resort, home of the 2005 and 2007 U.S. Alpine Championships, is currently in the midst of a three phase, multi-million dollar renovation project enhancing The Hotel Alyeska and Mount Alyeska. The majority of the project is slated for completion prior to the 2007 - 2008-ski season. Continue reading…