New England Ski Resorts Offer
Chances to Win Free Skiing & More!
Dateline: 11/02/98
New England's ski resorts are busy preparing for the ski season, and, to get you thinking snow, too, many are offering contests on the Internet where you can win a chance to ski New England's peaks free!
Here's the scoop on some of the ski resorts' contest offerings:
Win a Free Lift Ticket from Blandford Ski Area
Blandford Ski Area, located about a
half hour west of Springfield, Massachusetts, and maintained by The Springfield Ski Club,
gives you a chance to win a free lift ticket good anytime during the 1998/99 season. To
enter, email Blandford with your name and address.
Enter to Win at Butternut
In honor of its 35th anniversary, Butternut
Basin in the Berskhires of western Massachusetts offers skiers a chance to win one of
35 great prizes. First prize is a pair of skis or a snowboard of your choice from their
shop. Second prize is an unlimited season pass. Third prize is a Boeri or Jofa helmet.
Fourth prize is a fleece vest. Fifth through tenth place winners will receive a Butternut
Frequent Skier/Rider card which includes free lift passes. Eleventh through twentieth
place will receive gift certificates to Butternut's ski/snowboard shop. The remaining
winners will receive lift passes. Use the online entry form to submit
your entry by December 24, 1998.
Win a Hunter Mountain Season Pass
Hunter Mountain in New York's Catskills
is offering visitors to its Web site an opportunity to complete a survey and win a season
pass! Answer about 10 quick questions, provide your name and address, and you could be
skiing free all winter long. Note: Contest has ended.
Stratton Free Season Pass Sweepstakes
Stratton in northern Vermont is offering a
cool prize--a fully transferable season pass that lets you, or someone you know, ski free
every day this season. Complete the short online entry form for your chance to ski free
all season and impress your friends. Deadline for entry was
December 1, 1998.
Intrawest Mountain Resorts Grand Tour
Giveaway
In addition to Stratton in Vermont, you'll visit six other world class ski
resorts if you're the grand prize winner in Intrawest Mountain Resorts' Grand Tour
contest. There are also seven secondary
prizes in addition to the phenomenal grand prize package--seven days and seven nights
at each of seven fabulous resorts over the next two years. You can enter every day until
June 30, 1999. The first time you enter,
you'll have to complete what Intrawest calls a "long, boring form," which is
actually quite short! Then, enter each day by simply supplying your email address, first
name, and date of birth.
Good Luck!
Another Way to Ski Free!
Belleayre Mountain in Highmount, New
York, is celebrating its 50th birthday, and they're giving skiers a chance to ski free on their
birthdays. Here's how it works. If your birthday falls between late November and early
April, you'll ski free if you visit Belleayre on your birthday. If your birthday is not
during the ski season, never fear! Celebrate your birth date in the alternate months which
Belleayre has assigned. If you were born late April through May, ski free on your birth
date in December. Those born in June and July can ski free on their birth day in January.
August and September babies will ski free in February when their birth date rolls around.
And skiers born in October and early November can ski free on their birth date in March.
Those born Aug 29-31 and Sept 29 -30 can ski free on February 28. You'll need to show
photo ID with proof of your birth date at Belleayre's Administration Offices.
Bring a Friend to Killington
and Ski Free
Know someone who's never skied or snowboarded before? Bring him to Killington in Vermont this year, sign him up for a
first-time Level 1 Learn-to-Ski or -Ride clinic, and you'll get
a free lift ticket for the day!
Bring Home a Free Smugglers' Notch Mouse
Pad
Request a free brochure and a free video by calling Northern Vermont's Smugglers' Notch toll free at 1 800
451-8752. Then, when you make your ski getaway reservations, mention that you found
Smugglers' Notch on the Internet, and you'll receive a free Smugglers' Notch mouse pad to
take home.
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