Every year, Christie's produces interesting vintage winter-resort sales a challenge given that these posters were originally produced for commercial purposes and often hung in the open, making it hard to find examples in good condition dating so far back.
It does, however, paint the dormant fairways green each winter, so that many resort visitors don't even notice.
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Earlier this month the folks at Porsche hosted a winter driving school at Sugarbush Resort in Vermont.
The World Athletics Championship takes place in Moscow on Aug. 10-18, and the event is seen as a dress rehearsal for the 2014 Winter Games in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
Alonso has now arrived at Ferrari as Massa's team-mate for 2010 and he donned the famous red kit for the first time this week at the team's annual winter sports event at Italian ski resort Madonna di Campiglio.
Corruption has reached such extremes that businesses involved in preparing the Black Sea resort of Sochi for the Winter Olympics of 2014 report having to pay kickbacks of more than fifty per cent.
This month a mob of 250 youngsters, many of them sporting baggy clothes, multicolored hairdos and multiple piercings, will invade the refined Aspen Mountain resort to appear at the Winter X Games, part of ESPN's twice-yearly "extreme sports" lollapalooza.
Fortunately Denver delivers, with the largest park collection of any U.S. city, more than 200 of them, including Winter Park, a world-class ski resort (okay, so it is 50 miles away).
Quick background: in an effort to attract fellow northerners south for the winter, Bostonian James Tufts built a grand resort near Southern Pines, NC at the tail end of the 19th century in what he believed to be a place with an especially healthy climate.
The Black Sea resort city of Sochi will host the Winter Olympic Games and the reinstated Russian Grand Prix in 2014, and Russia will host the FIFA World Cup in 2018, with many hotel chains around the country investing in anticipation.
Our mountain resort communities swell with visitors during the peak winter and summer seasons and are plagued by auto congestion and the lack of parking.
Okemo Mountain Resort in Vermont hasn't seen a winter quite like this in about 30 years, said Bonnie MacPherson, the mountain's director of public relations, who sent a videographer onto the slopes before Christmas to ask skiers to show off their best snow dances.
Although endowed with mountains and cold winter weather, China largely lacked a couple of things that resort skiing in A.D. 2002 requires: people with money in their pockets and the freedom to live it up.
Takahashi took more time out in 2011 when he had to have the bolt from that knee surgery removed, but he recovered the following year to win his first Grand Prix Final -- which was held in Sochi, the Russian resort city that will host next year's Winter Olympics.
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Overall, the resort saw a 23 percent increase in skier visits this winter over last year, he said.
This week, the Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando plays host to the 109th annual Baseball Winter Meetings.
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The Winter Games boost snow-related sports, but do little for ski resort valuations.
But precisely what it took for the little-known Japanese ski resort to beat mighty Salt Lake City for last year's Winter Games might never be known.
"Natural snow definitely gets people to remind them that there are winter activities, " Lori Rowell, director of marketing for Pats Peak ski resort in Henniker, told CNN affiliate WBZ.
Classified as a winter travel poster used to advertise a product--in this case, the resort of St.
The Winter Olympics may be a boon for skiing in general, but for the ski resort stocks, "I don't think it's a big factor, " says analyst Irene Nattel, who follows Intrawest (nyse: IDR - news - people) for RBC Capital Markets.
New snowmaking equipment allowed the resort to open with more terrain than usual, and there were mid-winter conditions consistently from Nov. 15 to April 15, he said.
In winter, snowshoeing and cross country skiing are just as accessible, while the Eldora alpine ski resort is 90 minutes away.
Among the posters on offer at Christie's will be "Winter in Davos" (1914) by Burkhard Mangold, depicting happy couples dancing on skates at the Swiss resort's rink.
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