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SKI WEEKEND CLASSIC CANNON November 2017 From Sugarbush to peaks across New England, skiers and riders are ready to rock WELCOME TO SNOWTOPIA A experience has arrived in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. grand new LINCOLN, NH | RIVERWALKRESORTATLOON.COM Arriving is your escape. Access snow, terrain and hospitality – as reliable as you’ve heard and as convenient as you deserve. SLOPESIDE THIS IS YOUR DESTINATION. SKI & STAY Kids Eat Free $ * from 119 pp/pn with Full Breakfast for Two EXIT LoonMtn.com/Stay HERE Featuring indoor pool, health club & spa, Loon Mountain Resort slopeside hot tub, two restaurants and more! * Quad occupancy with a minimum two-night Exit 32 off I-93 | Lincoln, NH stay. Plus tax & resort fee. One child (12 & under) eats free with each paying adult. May not be combined with any other offer or discount. Early- Save on Lift Tickets only at and late-season specials available. LoonMtn.com/Tickets A grand new experience has arrived in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Arriving is your escape. Access snow, terrain and hospitality – as reliable as you’ve heard and as convenient as you deserve. SLOPESIDE THIS IS YOUR DESTINATION. SKI & STAY Kids Eat Free $ * from 119 pp/pn with Full Breakfast for Two EXIT LoonMtn.com/Stay HERE Featuring indoor pool, health club & spa, Loon Mountain Resort slopeside hot tub, two restaurants and more! We believe that every vacation should be truly extraordinary. Our goal Exit 32 off I-93 | Lincoln, NH * Quad occupancy with a minimum two-night stay. Plus tax & resort fee. One child (12 & under) is to provide an unparalleled level of service in a spectacular mountain setting. eats free with each paying adult. May not be combined with any other offer or discount. Early- Save on Lift Tickets only at and late-season specials available. the grand new vision of what a luxury resort should be, in one LoonMtn.com/Tickets Experience of the most accessible & beautiful vacation destinations in the East. 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Seamans, Sr. (1929-2001) CANNON: PURE PUBLISHER NEW ENGLAND Eric Seamans ................................. eric@skijournal.com SKI WEEKEND | The trails that MANAGING EDITOR gave birth to Bode can indeed Eric Beato ............................ eric.beato@skijournal.com 26 be unforgiving, but there is a EDITOR / DESIGN softer side to Cannon, too, and plenty Don Cameron ............................... don@skijournal.com of enhancements, that make it a great ADVERTISING destination for all ages and abilities. Terrence Butt ......................... terrence@skijournal.com NEW AND IMPROVED Nick Williams ................................ nick@skijournal.com WHERE DREAMS ARE TOP PRIORITY WHAT’S NEW FOR 2017-18 | Vail Resorts’ purchase of Stowe, energy initiatives, enhancements in lifts and snowmaking CLIENT RELATIONS ACADEMY GUIDE | The modern tech and Smuggs’ FunZone 2.0 are among the noteworthy. 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NYHockeyJournal.com New England Lacrosse Journal .................. laxjournal.com New England Baseball Journal .......... baseballjournal.com New England Soccer Journal ............ NESoccerJournal.com November 2017 www.skijournal.com 5 SLOPESIDE Odds & Ends from Snow Country BY MATT BOXLER AND NESJ STAFF Pearce wins First Tracks WORLD CUP HITS KILLINGTON NOV� 25-26 Inspirational former pro snowboarder Kevin Pearce, the Vermonter whose path to the 2010 Olympics was changed by a traumatic brain injury suffered (Killington); Wachusett Reese Brown during training, received the first-ever First Tracks Award dur- ing the Vermont Ski and Snow- board Museum’s gala evening held last month at Stowe. The award honors excep- tional and ongoing contribu- tions to the sport in Vermont by someone under age 35. The award was established in the memory of Stowe native Ian Graddock, the standout athlete, ski racer, business professional and Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum board member who died last year at the age of 35. Since suffering his injury in 2009, Pearce has used the visi- THE BEST WOMEN’S technical skiers on the planet land at Killington The band Dispatch, formed while attending Vermont’s Middlebury bility generated from his success for an Audi FIS World Cup stop Nov. 25-26. College, will headline a robust music and entertainment lineup to as a professional snowboarder to The general public is invited to view the women’s giant slalom and celebrate the return of the World Cup. Troy Ramey, originally from help others with traumatic brain slalom races from free general admission areas or from the grandstands, Woodstock, Vt., and best-known for soaring through season 12 of the hit injuries. His award-winning HBO as a limited number of premium grandstand tickets remain available singing competition “The Voice,” also will perform. documentary “The Crash Reel” when Killington hosts the Alpine World Cup event for the second year in The World Cup Expo Village, located at the K-1 Base Area, will and his subsequent public- a row. The free viewing areas will accommodate approximately 12,000 feature more than 40 unique sponsors, ranging from artisan Vermont speaking platform led him to co- spectators and Killington provides free parking and an enhanced shuttle craft and food vendors to the latest ski industry hardware and technology found with his brother, Adam, system for event spectators during the weekend. companies. More at killington.com/worldcup. the LoveYourBrain Foundation. Scambio named Loon president, GM to be returning as its president and general manager,” Scambio said. “Hav- Jay Scambio, former director of ing known and worked with Rick Kelley mountain sports development for for years, I know what an excellent job Boyne Resorts, has been named as he’s done managing Loon, and his new Loon Mountain Resort’s new president appointment is well-deserved. With the and general manager. He is taking over excellent staff at the resort and the con- for Rick Kelley, who has been promot- tinued support of Rick and the entire ed to senior vice president of ski and Boyne senior management team, I look mountain sports operations for Boyne. forward to further cementing Loon’s Scambio began his career in the status as one of the premiere mountain ski industry as a snowboarding coach resorts in New England.” at Loon Mountain in 1998. A 2002 Plym- outh State University Cranmore sledgehammers graduate, he became Cranmore Mountain Resort has terrain park man- added 86 high-efficiency snow guns ager at Loon and, in that will use 90 percent of water pump- 2007, was promoted ing capacity. The technology of the to direct terrain park LPX-Y Gen 3 machines, or “sledgeham- Jay Scambio development for all mer guns,” uses 50 percent less air, of Boyne’s resorts. In which means less electricity is used, 2015, he was named director of moun- and overall,