Ski and Snowboard News, Deals, and Events

Snowshoe Mountain Resort in West Virginia has just come off the snowiest start to winter in 13 years, with October through January the snowiest since the 1995-96 season.

Ample snowfall has meant solid base on the resort's trails.

Laura Parquette of Snowshoe said, "Our base is about 60 inches right now, with a lot more in some places, and February is our snowiest month."

Snowshoe is looking ahead to the Homegrown Music Festival March 6-8, when the mountain is overrun by groups playing a variety of live music with Southern roots, including Southern Rock, Country, and Blue Grass.

"That weekend we also have the Homegrown Games where we bob for pigs feet, run a Daisy Duke Contest, and other fun games celebrating - or poking fun at - Southern stereotypes," Parquette said.

March 11-12 is the Burton Women's Snowboard Camp, devoted to female riders of any ability level and run by a female Burton pro with the help of Snowshoe's snowboard instructors.

Cost is $99, plus lodging and lift ticket, and gives participants instruction, practice, clinics, access to new equipment for women, and parties. The camp is open to women and girls 8 years old and up.