Winter sport

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.bigmtn.com
Employees: 200

Winter Sports wants you to tread some slippery slopes. The company operates the Whitefish Mountain Resort (formerly Big Mountain) near Glacier National Park in Montana, offering outdoor enthusiasts miles of ski slopes and trails. It includes about a dozen ski lifts serving more than 3,000 acres of land, more than 2,500 acres of which are leased from the U.S. Forest Service under a special permit. Whitefish Mountain also features ski rental and retail shops, lodging, and a skiing school. The ski area, open from November to April, offers visitors shopping, snowmobile riding, sleigh rides, and other activities. Summer guests can hike, sightsee, mountain bike, and go horseback riding.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending May, 2007:
Sales: $13.4M

Officers:
President and CEO: Daniel Graves
Director Marketing: Sports & Recreation

Competitors:
Boyne USA
Intrawest
Vail Resorts

A winter sport is a sport commonly played during winter. As a formal term, it refers to a sport played on snow or ice, but informally it can refer to sports played in winter that are also played year-round, such as basketball. The main winter sports are ice hockey and figure skating, sledding events such as luge, skeleton, and bobsleigh, skiing (Alpine and Nordic) and snowboarding. Other common winter sports include snow-blading, monoskiing, skwal and tobogganingalso snowmobiling

Contents 1 List of winter sports 1.1 Ice skating 1.2 Snowboarding 1.3 Skiing 1.4 Sledding 1.5 snowmobliling 1.6 Team sports 1.7 Recreational sports 1.8 Notable Winter sport resort regions 2 See also

List of winter sports

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Ice skating

See also team sports. An asterisk indicates that a particular sport is included in the Olympics, as of the 2006 Turin Olympics.

• Figure skating *
• Short-track speed skating *
• Speed skating *
• Synchronized skating

Snowboarding

• Freestyle snowboarding *
• Alpine snowboarding *
• Boardercross *
• Slalom *

Skiing

Sports in which skis are used on snow.

• Alpine skiing *
• Biathlon *
• Cross country skiing *
• Freestyle skiing *
• Newschool skiing
• Nordic combined *
• Ski archery
• Skiboarding
• Skibob
• Skijoring
• Ski jumping *
• Snowshoe
• Speed skiing
• Telemark skiing

Sledding

Sports that use sleds going down ice tracks or pulled by something.

• Ice Blocking
• Bobsled *
• Luge *
• Skeleton *
• Wok racing
• Dogsled racing
• Airboard

snowmobliling

• free style
• snow-cross
• recreation
• cross country
• hill climbing

Team sports

Sports that involve teams, played on ice.

• Bandy
• Broomball
• Curling *
• Ice hockey *
• Ice stock sport
• Ringette
• Sledge hockey - (Winter Paralympic Sport)
• Snowball Association - (Last one standing)

Recreational sports

Some 'sports' are competed (or simply enjoyed) on a more casual basis, often by children.

• Ice boating or Ice sailing
• Tobogganing
• Snowball fight
• Building snowmen
• Shinny
• Ice swimming
• Ice fishing

Notable Winter sport resort regions

• Andes
• Rocky Mountains
• Alps
• Snowy Mountains
• Karkonosze Mountains/Sudeten mountains
• Lapland
• Appalachian Mountains
• Carpathian Mountains
• Balkan Mountains
• Swiss Alps
• Whistler

See also

• Winter Olympic Games

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