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Winter Sports Trips -- Extreme and Easier Snow Sports

Winter sports trips are excuses to play in the snow. Do you prefer extreme winter sports that push your body and mind to new highs, or less strenuous sports so you can enjoy the outdoors? Here's where to find resorts and regions with parks, pipes and terrain for skiers and snowboarders, ice climbing, dog sledding and other outdoor activities.
Adventure Travel – Go on a Dog Sled Tour
Photographs and videos of the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Race, when mushers and their dogs navigate 1,150 miles of astonishingly beautiful but extremely desolate Alaskan terrain, captivate viewers. While you may never want to challenge the mountain ranges, ice-sheathed rivers and pine-shrouded forests that these men and women must pass through on their route from to Anchorage to Nome, you can ex…
Where to Heighten Your Avalanche Awareness Skills
As the snowstorms sweep through the mountains from the Sierra Nevada and the Cascades on the West Coast through the Rockies, the snow layers keep shifting. With the increasing number of skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers triggering or getting caught in backcountry slides, a growing number of resorts are offering avalanche awareness clinics.
Try the Bobsled, Zipline, or Just Tour Utah Olympic Park
The Utah Olympic Park is a playground for adventurous winter travelers. If you want to zip down a bobsled run behind a World Cup bobsled pilot, try skiing down the Nordic ski jumps or take an extreme zipline ride here's the place to visit. If you simply want to learn more about the 2002 Winter Olympic Games you can take a tour while your friends test themselves in these special sporting venues.
Utah Olympic Park, Venue for the 2002 Winter Games, has Three Museums
Utah Olympic Park, venue for the bobsled, luge, skeleton and Nordic ski jump competitions, has three museums featuring the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, and Park City, Utah's history of skiing.
Sports Enthusiasts Take Luge Runs on Recreational Tracks
Ready to let USA Luge international medalists and coaches show you how to ride a luge downhill? Just plan a winter vacation at a ski resort that hosts one of the annual Verizon Luge Challenges.
Bobsled Rides at Utah Olympic Park, Site of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games
A bobsled ride down the track at Utah Olympic Park, site of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games, takes less than a minute but you'll go 70 miles an hour or faster.
Summer and Winter Yellowstone Field School Ed-Ventures Tours
Lodging and Learning programs, and Ed-Ventures tours of Yellowstone National Park are entertaining ways to explore the nation's first national park in more depth.
Top 9 Reasons to Visit Yellowstone National Park in the Winter
Visiting Yellowstone in the winter you can snowmobile or cross country ski past steamy clouds drifting from hot springs, watch Old Faithful erupt framed by the setting sun, photograph bison from the safety of your snow coach and watch wolf packs through a spotting scope.
Pictures -- Winter in Yellowstone is More Than Old Faithful
Winter in Yellowstone is more than Old Faithful – It is snowmobiling, cross country skiing and animal watching, too, as these pictures show.
Yellowstone in the Winter – Lodging in the Park
Yellowstone in the winter is an astonishing sight. Spend a few nights in the park, staying at the Old Faithful Snow Park Lodge or the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel.
Wonderful Winter Festivals
Wrapping a winter vacation around a winter festival gives you a great reason to take a trip to resorts or regions that love to party when there's snow on the ground.
Mountaineering and Climbing with Berg Adventures International
Skiing down Mt. Everest? Three extreme skiers challenged the Lhotse Face sucessfully after climbing to the summit of the world's highest mountain, during a fall expedition with Berg Adventures International.
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