Vermont ski areas recorded 4,354,621 skier visits for the 2007-08 season, announced the Vermont Ski Areas Association at its June 12 Annual Meeting held at Mount Snow Resort. This marked a 14% increase over the prior year’s tally, and was well ahead of the industry’s 10-year average.

Officials announced today that the Vermont resort will dedicate the entire Carinthia mountain face to freestyle terrain parks when it opens for the 2008-09 season, transforming 95 acres of trails into a massive park system.

Spruce Peak at Stowe, Stowe Mountain Resort’s new base-area development, has earned the Audubon Green Community Award from Audubon International, a non-profit environmental organization headquartered in New York State.

Salt Lake City Olympic gold medalist Kelly Clark (West Dover, VT) and U.S. Snowboarding’s Louie Vito (Columbus, OH) rocked the pipe hard to win the halfpipe competition as well as the overall season titles at the Killington stop of the Chevy U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix Sunday, March 16.

To commemorate Okemo Mountain Resort’s continued support of the National Ski Areas Association’s sutainable slopes charter, the facility will hold a Sustainable Slopes Day celebration Saturday, March 29, featuring music, food, giveaways and the IZ Style Winter Tour and Reverb Eco-Village.