Continued Good Early Season Skiing and more deals for Members

Boulder, Colorado - December 14, 2006

Last weekend December 10 th, Sunday was our third weekend in a row of heading to Summit County Colorado and skiing Copper Mountain. Once again it was superb early season skiing and riding. We were able to ski and ride in Union Bowl off the Sierra Chair as if it was mid season skiing conditions. The previous week we had skied this as it was opened. It was terrific soft broken snow with easy steep bumps.

The kids were in ski and snowboard school and I must say they have done a great job with their Scooter program for juniors in making sure our three boys - 11, 9 and 6 - are having a great time and learning new skills weekly. For my wife and I it is a joy to get to ski all day with friends as well.

We stayed at a condo at the base of Super B chair in East Village from Frisco Mountain Rentals. It was a great condo with convenient locations as well.

For a complete list of current resort offering lift tickets savings go here.

Hot new member deals include:

• Ski Sunlight In Glenwood Springs Colorado with new lift ticket offers.
• Ragged Mountain in New Hampshire lift ticket savings for up to 4 family members everyday of the season. Coupons available starting January 1, 2007. Save up to $40 daily.
• Blue Hills in Massachusetts. lift ticket savings for up to 4 family members everyday of the season. Coupons available starting January 1, 2007. Save up to $40 daily.
• Lodging savings at The Prospector Square Condominiums in Park City, Utah. Members save up to 30%. Conveniently located to Park City Resort, Deer Valley and The Canyons.
• New lodging discounts for Breckenridge, Copper and Frisco at Hotel Frisco, Frisco Mountain Rentals and Summit Rentals. Save up to 25%.

More and more online and brick and mortar retailers offering savings on purchases, rentals and shop services. Check out the retail listings and save on your next purchase, ski rental or ski, snowboard and bike tune and service.

Frisco, Copper Mountain Colorado and Thanksgiving n the Rockies

November 24, 2006

Skied the last two days at Copper Mountain in Summit County Colorado. Each day the terrain and snow was plentiful for November. A nice mix of groomers and bumps gave the us a full day of skiing. There were morning crowds at the American Flyer chair out of the base area. We found that skiing and riding off the Super B chair ensured virtually no of very small lift lines.
Here we also found a more interesting mix of terrain and conditions that were not as hard and scratchy as the center of the mountain. Each day new runs were opened offering more diversity. It was fairly busy and we skied Wednesday and Thanksgiving Day before the holiday crowds. Staying in Frisco we rented a 4 bedroom townhouse from Big Horn Rentals. It was located walking distance from downtown off 5th Street. The pool and clubhouse facility was clean and included three outdoor hot tubs, once indoor with a heated pool and sauna and steam room. We would gladly rent and stay at this unit again.

One new discovery in town was the Frisco Internet Cafe. This service I find as a necessity on many trips. The service is located adjacent and inside the Frisco Lodge on main street. At $6 an hour the connection - high speed wifi - and friendly atmosphere made this an easy to use and access stop on 2 days of my trip.

Not to be forgotten is the morning, or anytime, stop at the Butterhorn Cafe across the street from the Frisco Lodge on Main Street. This cafe has been here for almost 20 years and has wonderful baked goods, breads with a sumptuous breakfast menu.Sandwiches and more are available or lunch. This is and has continued to be one of my favorite stops in the AM or after and wanted a cup of coffee and an afternoon baked good.

More deals, skiing, riding and reviews. Happy Thanksgiving.

Date line Frisco Colorado - More deals, skiing, riding and reviews. Happy Thanksgiving
It is the first holiday of the winter ski and snowboard season. It was truly a dash getting the live registrations and coupons working at the Mountain Sports Club site. But with a huge effort by our partners at Premity - Jeremy and Dan, to enable this feature and more. Members have stated using the services and new members are registering daily. We wish to thank everyone for their help and support in getting this launched and ready for the holiday. There is good snow in the central Rockies and resorts opening all around the continent. Now is the time to get your gear and start making plans for trips.
Yesterday skied Arapahoe Basin and enjoyed a great Colorado Blue bird day. With the two main lifts - Exhibition and Lenawee providing top to bottom skiing, there was a surprising amount of terrain and soft snow to be skied. We spent most the day mixing it up between cruisers and soft bump runs under the Lenawee chair. I also noticed a new mid mountain lodge being built. This facility I was told would be ready to open around March 1. This coincides with the busy spring season when the Basin cranks into high gear. We will keep you updated as this facility opens. The snow conditions and variety of skiing and riding was nothing short of excellent for this time of year. There have been January's in recent memory where I had wished the snow was this good. Access was also available to the far east side of the West wall toward Pali. Lots of good snow and a great day.

The plan is to ski Copper Mountain the next 2 days we will post a review on the Copper page later this week.

New member deals include:
- Pats Peak New Hampshire - Coupons to be live any day. Savings from $5 Daily to $10 Daily
- Ramada Inn Rutland Vermont - Listing and coupons to be live any day. Save up to 50% off lodging.
- Colorado Ski Tunes - Listing and coupons to be live any day. Save 20% on ski and snowboard tunes.
- Peregrine Liquors, Vail Colorado - Listing and coupons to be live any day. Save 15% on purchases.
- Terry Sports 3 locations in Steamboat Springs Colorado - Save 10% on walk in rentals. Save 15% on purchases of ski accessories.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving - More deals, skiing, riding and reviews.

Blogs November 22, 2006

Date line Frisco Colorado - More deals, skiing, riding and reviews. Happy Thanksgiving
It is the first Holiday of the winter ski and snowboard season. It was truly a dash getting the live registrations and coupons working at the Mountain Sports Club site. But with a huge effort by our partners at Premity - Jeremy and Dan, to enable this feature and more. Members have stated using the services and new members are registering daily. We wish to thank every one for their help and support in getting this launched and ready for the holiday. There is good snow in the central Rockies and resorts opening all around the continent. Now is the time to get your gear and start making plans for trips.
Yesterday skied Arapahoe Basin and enjoyed a great Colorado blue bird day. With the two main lifts - Exhibition and Lenawee providing top to bottom skiing, there was a surprising amount of terrain and soft snow to be skied. We spent most the day mixing it up between cruisers and soft bump runs under the Lenawee chair. I also noticed a new mid mountain lodge being built. This facility I was told would be ready to open around March 1. This coincides with the busy spring season when the Basin cranks into high gear. We will keep you updated as this facility opens. The snow conditions and variety of skiing and riding was nothing short of excellent for this time of year. There have been January's in recent memory where I had wished the snow was this good. Access was also available to the far east side of the West wall toward Pali. Lots of good snow and a great day.
Today the plan is to ski Copper we will post a review on the Copper page later this week.

New member deals include:
- Pats Peak New Hampshire - Coupons to be live any day. Savings from $5 Daily to $10 Daily
- Ramada Inn Rutland Vermont - Listing and coupons to be live any day. Save up to 50% off lodging.
- Colorado Ski Tunes - Listing and coupons to be live any day. Save 20% on ski and snowboard tunes.
- Peregrine Liquors, Vail Colorado - Listing and coupons to be live any day. Save 15% on purchases.
- Terry Sports 3 locations in Steamboat Springs Colorado - Save 10% on walk in rentals. Save 15% on purchase of ski accessories.

Go out and enjoy the grea early snow. Look for new deals and feaures coming weekly.

New Deals Colorado, Vermont and the Denver Ski Show

Boulder Colorado November 2, 2006

Tomorrow we debut in public at the Denver Ski Show. Come by and visit us at Booth 8, and say hello. We are pleased to announce live coupons will be ready next Friday November 10, 2006. Just in time for the season to really get going.

The Mountain Sports Club lift ticket savings and discounts really are starting to come in quickly with the start of the season. We just announced a monthly members only gear and lift tcket giveaway. This months free stuff, includes 2 FREE Lift tickets to Loveland Ski Area, 2 nights lodging in Colorado and a Volant Ski from Terry Sports of Steamboat Springs Colorado. New lift ticket deals for this past week inlcude:
Mad River Glen in Vermont - Ski it if you can... Mountain Sports Club members ski for only $29 during midweek nonholidays. This is a lift tickets discount/savings of $26 daily.
Ascutney Mountain In Southern Vermont checks in with 2 for 1 midweek non holiday lift tickets, Savings of up to $58 daily and weekend non holiday savings of $15 daily.
Powderhorn Colorado on the Western slopes offers members daily savings of $6 all seaosn no blackouts or restrictions.

Last chance for FREE memberships. Send your friends now.

New Lift ticket deals and Site relaunch

October 30, 2006

Over the last few weeks we have been furiously at work repaing for site relaunch and the release of live coupons. With the winter season upon us we are proud to announce that the service will have live and functioning registration by the 10th of November. When the site is re-released the ability to produce live coupons for our members will be operational.

This will also be the date that FREE memberships are no longer available. All services will then be available at $9.95 for the initial family member, $7.95 for each member in groeups of 2 - 5. $6.96 each at 6 - 9 and $5.95 each for groups of 10 or more. The Mountain Sports Club will also function as a fundraiser for many groups. Contact us for more information on promoting our memberships and raising money for your group.

New lift ticket deals continue to becme available. Several new offers are as listed:

• Loveland Ski Area Colorado - Save $7.00 Daily on adult ful day lift tickets.
  
• Echo Mountain Park in Colorado - Save 10% on lift tickets.
  
• Silver Mountain Idaho - Ski and Stay Packages with Free Children's Lift tickets.
  
• Hidden Valley, Pennsylvania - 2 for 1 repeat lift tickets Opening day till December 24, 2006. Save up to $55 daily!!! 2 for 1 lift tickets Wed, Thursday and Friday all season. Save up to $55 each time.
  
• Shawnee, Pennsylvania - Save up to $8.00 Daily on adult lift tickets valid every day including Holidays and Weekends!!!!

New deals in the tavel desk now features lift and lodging specials at resorts such as Aspen, Breckenridge, Beaver Creek, Copper Mountain, Crested Butte, Vail, Steamboat Springs, Snowmass, Winter Park, Telluride, Deer Valley, Park City, Whistler/Blackcomb, Stowe, Mt Tremblant and many more. Special members only savings on top of already discounted packages.

Kicking off 2006/07 Ski Season at Loveland

Monday October 30, 2006

Dateline Boulder, Colorado

Friday was the 24th time out of the last 28 October’s that I have had the good fortune of skiing and making turns in Colorado. I had the opportunity to get to Loveland Ski Area and check out the incredible early season snow. The ski season began early this year in the Colorado Rockies. Arapahoe Basin was the first to open Friday October 13 th, followed by Loveland Ski area the next day. Since then the state and central mountains have received several snow falls. The one that kicked the season into a higher gear was the middle of last week when most of the mountains received 18 – 14 inches of snow.

Loveland reported 22 inches of new snow last Thursday and opened an additional chair. On Friday under blue skies it felt like mid winter. The snow was soft and there were soft bumps appearing on blue and black runs. There are now 3lifts with 21 trails open. I have never skied such good winter soft snow and seen so much terrain open this early. It is time to wax the skis or snowboards and get a jump on this season. Loveland Ski Area will be offering a daily $7.00 lift ticket savings/discount on full day lift tickets this season to Mountain Sports Club members.

Arapahoe Basin reports 2 lifts open, 7 runs and top to bottom skiing and snowboarding. This week will see both Keystone and Copper Mountain open one week early for skiing and snowboarding. In Southwest Colorado Wolf Creek opened this past Friday.

See you on the mountain,

Ski area Openings, More Lift ticket deals and St Mary's Glacier

Fall sure is trying to move quickly into winter in the Colorado high country. The early snows and cold temperatures provided enough foundation and for good snowmaking weather to enable both Arapahoe Basin ( first in the nation on Friday 10.13) and Loveland Ski Area ( next day Saturday 10.14) to open for skiing and riding. This is one of the earliest I can remember having 2 areas open. It sure builds the excitement and enthusiasm for a good season.

We took a hike up to St. Mary's Glacier yesterday as well to get our legs ready for some high country winter treks and to take in the sites. This is and has been one of my favorite hikes and access points to the high country for almost 30 years.

Directions: To get there take I-70 west to exit 238 Fall River Road. Take RD 275 about 11 miles to you past the sign that you have gone over 10,000 feet. From there you will shortly see several parking and trail options. It is 3/4 of a mile to the base of the Glacier (tecnically a snowfield) and the lake.With recent snows of up to 2 feet in parts of the mountains, the glacier offered a significant, but narrow in places, run. At the top of the glacier there were kickers and rails that had been built with an very active backcountry park and jumping scene. There must have been 30 - 40 skiers and riders we saw making the hike and earning turns and jumps. It was sunny and warm making for an awesome October day of playing in the high country.

New spotlight deal for Mountain Sports Club Members this week included daily savings of up to $6.00 valid everyday of the season at Shawnee Peak in Maine.

New 2 for 1 Lift Ticket Deals and Travel discounts

The new site relaunch is going to happen in the next week. We are excited about unveiling the new look and functionality. Over 600 resorts with resort detail over 1,000 lodging properties with travel booking options and more lift tickets deals coming online and in the wings.

Strong values that have been confirmed include the following 2 for 1 lift tickets.

• Windham Mountain in the Catskills of New York is offering a 2 for 1 mid week non holiday for Mountain Sports Club members. This is a $46 value. Well worth the value of one's membership.
• Tenney Mountain in New Hampshire is offering Mountain Sports Club members 2 for 1 lift tickets daily on midweek non holiday lift tickets, representing a daily savings value of $15 each time you use your membership.

In the Mt. Washington Valley area of New Hampshire, Cranmore has commited to extending savings ranging from $5.00 daily to $10.00 daily savings on Adult Full day lift tickets.

These are several of the newer lift ticket savings that will be available in the coming weeks as well complete site relaunch.

Members can also now access various features of the Mountain Sports Club Travel desk to book lodging and more at our private label travel service powered by Travelocity.

New deals being listed weekly. Memberships are still FREE of charge. Hurry while offer lasts. With new discounts like those above coming in this offer will not last much longer. Over 30 additional resorts have committed to providing lift ticket values for our members by months end.