Winter Sports

Once a hot new resort, Idaho's Tamarack shuts down

BOISE, Idaho — Tamarack Resort in central Idaho billed itself as the first new destination ski resort in a quarter century when its first customers climbed aboard lifts in December 2004.

Entombed by avalanche, snowmobiler survives because of quick-acting companiions

All it took was 60 seconds.

Prime Timers

"If this is what it means to be an old fart, sign me up," a 40-something skier said.

Cle Elum skier is upward bound

Two hours before the finals of Saturday's moguls World Cup race Bryon Wilson was threatening to hurt Patrick Deneen.

Snowboarder makes comeback after five-year hiatus

Winter Olympics get torched by battered economy

Not too old to hit the slopes

Teaching on the slopes comes naturally, even later in life

D.K. Watson had lived in Yakima for a dozen years, barely 45 minutes from the White Pass ski area, when he finally decided to give the slopes a try.

Above it all

No stranger to cold and darkness, Annie Pokorny has a headlamp ready as she powers through another winter sunset. The after-school workout is paced by bursts of steam from her lungs when she streaks past her father and pierces the dusky hush of Mount Spokane with a rhythmic swish-swish of her skating skis across the groomed snow.

Upgrades proposed for Stevens Pass ski area

SKYKOMISH — New ski lifts, a mountaintop lodge and mountain biking improvements are being proposed for the Stevens Pass ski area, along with a phased environmental review process that is drawing some concern.