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Happy New Year!!

Snowless Ski Resorts Offer Hiking, Mini Golf — Or Pleas For Donations

The holidays are usually a busy time on the slopes, but unseasonably warm weather this month is wreaking havoc on ski resorts — and skiers’ plans — in the Midwest and Northeast.

Ski resorts in New York and Pennsylvania are assuring would-be visitors that they’re ready to make snow “in a moment’s notice” as soon as cold weather returns, reports AccuWeather. But there’s no getting around that at the moment, there’s simply no snow to be had.

The winter-that-just-wouldn’t-start could have a dire economic impact on such resorts. The director of one tells AccuWeather that Christmas visitors usually account for 20 percent of the season’s total business.

Resorts are having to think beyond the slopes. At least one has actually brought back its summer activities — normally unavailable at this time of year — for the Christmas season, The Toronto Star reported last week. The Blue Mountain Resort in Ontario, Canada, made the call after it was wholly snowless just a week before Christmas.

Happy 1st Day of WINTER!!!

Wisp had the snow guns running this weekend!!

Larry Walsh: Temperatures this weekend will allow for snowmaking

By Larry Walsh / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Local and regional resorts are offering a variety of off-snow activities while they wait for below-freezing temperatures to make snow.

Depending on their locations, those temperatures might have arrived Friday night and they might return again tonight.

“The forecast for this weekend [Dec. 18-19] is absolutely gorgeous” said Shawn Cassell, spokesman for Snowshoe Mountain Resort in east-central West Virginia. “Those lows in the teens will make for some spectacular snowmaking conditions.”

On the slopes:

Check out what’s new at Pittsburgh-area ski resorts this season

Pittsburgh’s regional ski resorts won’t be introducing any new snazzy ski lodges or other big ticket items this coming season, but they’ve made a number of improvements aimed at enhancing the overall experience for all snowsports enthusiasts.

They’ve spent millions of dollars — from lighting, to snowmaking and grooming improvements, to hotel and lodge renovations and equipment upgrades — to prepare for the 2015-16 season. What’s been done at your favorite resort? Read on.

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Mount Washington sold to company known for snowmaking technology

Vancouver Island’s snow-starved Mount Washington Ski Resort has been sold to a Utah-based company renowned for its snow-making technology.

The sale to Pacific Group Resorts Inc., reportedly in the works for years, includes the ski hill and most of the land surrounding the base of the resort, while the current owners will hang on to two pieces of prime development land.

“We’ve been working with George Stuart and Darryl Eddy for a couple years now on the transition of the resort to new ownership,” PGRI president and general manager Peter Gibson said in a media release. “It finally worked out that this was the right time, and we are very excited to have the opportunity to add Mount Washington to our portfolio.”

Some of the top golf resort courses in Western Pennsylvania

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Wisp

Located in McHenry, Md., adjacent to Deep Creek Lake, Wisp has two 18-hole courses with vastly different looks, none more dramatic than Lodestone, a man-sized, 7,507-yard layout with massive, undulating greens, mounded bunker complexes and breathtaking vistas. Designed by Todd Schoeder and Hale Irwin, Lodestone has three par 5s longer than 600 yards, and only one par 4 –the 349-yard 14th — plays shorter than 424 yards. But because the elevation is 3,000 feet and most of the approaches play downhill, Lodestone doesn’t play as long as the yardage might suggest. Lodestone is in drastic contrast to the crafty resort course designed 30 years ago by architect Dominic Palumbo of Upper St. Clair, requiring shots through a variety of tree-lined fairways.

For More Information Click Here: http://www.post-gazette.com/sports/golf/2015/04/12/Some-of-the-top-golf-resort-courses-in-Western-Pennsylvania/stories/201504120104