Two thousand eight hundred ninety-five centimeters of snow fell at the Mount Baker Ski area in the northwestern state of Washington.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

so we decided not to go because the ski season is over.

所以我们决定不去了，因为滑雪季节过去了。

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But some hotels and ski areas away from the city are offering special rates for people who want to avoid the crowds.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

The event gathers some of the world's most powerful political and business leaders at a small ski village in the Swiss Alps.

VOA: special.2009.01.23

The lack of snow will not be a problem for events being held at the ski area in the city of Whistler.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Today,special machines are used to produce limited amounts of snow for winter holiday ski areas.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Organizers in Vancouver say the athletes will notice very little difference between a natural ski slope and the one that has been built for the games.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

It has a ski school for those who want to learn the exciting sport.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

But only people who live near snowy mountainous areas can ski a lot.

VOA: special.2010.01.29

Nordic combined is ski jumping followed by a cross country ski race.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

In the winter, people come to Jackson Hole to ski.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

Some people skate ski; they speed across level snow.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

Some wealthy people have homes near the ski resort.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

Badger ski area is the oldest in California.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

Demong says that part of the challenge of the ski jump is to get into a good rhythm and stay there.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

So,at the age of 24, the Kenyan got a ticket to Finland to learn how to cross country ski.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

And even though he won at the national championships last year, the U.S.Ski and Snowboard Association decided not to fund him anymore.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Todd Lodwick says his love for Nordic combined started early, when he was part of the Buddy Werner "Little Toots" ski program.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

He always puts his right ski boot on first, he touches his helmet and goggles two dozen times before leaving the start house.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

And to really figure out how to make it down the ski pitches and control myself.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

But DeMong told VOA Sports that the first time he tried ski jumping, he had to conquer something every Nordic combined skier faces - fear.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

Although Peru has tall mountains, Carcelen said there are no ski resorts in his homeland.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

But a combination of immaturity and bad ski waxing left them off the podium.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

He finished dead last. Nike dropped its African ski team experiment the next year.

VOA: standard.2010.01.22

Campbell's belief in the program seemed justified Tuesday afternoon when Ashleigh McIvor won a gold medal in front of home fans in ski cross in Cypress Mountain.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

"So I kind of learned to ski a little bit of everything.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

That calm was not easy to develop. Weibrecht was the fourth of five children in his home, and he had to be very vocal when he wanted to tag along with his older siblings as they went off to ski.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

We had out of Norway, a program where a student developed a new type of ski sock that had a special padding in it, and was actually able to get a patent on that and has taken it to market and been very successful.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04