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Snow Hits South Carolina!

Snow Hits South Carolina!

Oconee snow picture from this morning! It’s a winter wonderland up there! ... (Continue reading)

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Cherokee Casino gambles with health of visitors

Cherokee Casino gambles with health of visitors

Cherokee, North Carolina can be an appealing trip for many residents of the Upstate of South Carolina for some weekend gambling. However, recent visitors found that they not only gambled their money, but their health as well. Recently, an estimated 200... (Continue reading)

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Carolina Skiers Wait For Biathlon in Vancouver

Carolina Skiers Wait For Biathlon in Vancouver

As a sport, biathlon is arguably right up there with the toughest. Combining endurance, tactical skill and precision shooting, the biathlon field in Vancouver will compete for gold over five key events: sprint, pursuit, individual, mass start and relay. The... (Continue reading)

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Cataloochee Gives Back to the Local Community With Can-U-Ski!

 Cataloochee Gives Back to the Local Community With Can-U-Ski!

Cataloochee Ski Area continued its tradition of holiday giving to the local community today with its Eighth Annual Can-U-Ski Food and Coat Drive. After skiing on 3 slopes on Saturday in marginal conditions, Cataloochee opened to nine slopes and trails... (Continue reading)

Airboarding at Cataloochee Ski Area

Airboarding at Cataloochee Ski Area

It’s a sled, it’s a luge, no…its airboarding and its now at a ski area near you. New this season, Cataloochee Ski Area in Maggie Valley, North Carolina has joined Canaan Valley Resort in West Virginia and Smuggler’s Notch Resort... (Continue reading)

Wax Up Those Skis and Snowboards for a Western North Carolina Outdoor Adventure!

Wax Up Those Skis and Snowboards for a Western North Carolina Outdoor Adventure!

With the snowfall this weekend, ski and snow boarding conditions are outstanding. Couple the great ski and snow boarding conditions with breath-taking views of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and it makes skiing and snow boarding... (Continue reading)

Clemson’s new summer camp provides wilderness adventure and education

Clemson's new summer camp provides wilderness adventure and education

PICKENS – Clemson’s Youth Learning Institute (YLI) has adde a wilderness adventure camp to its 2008 line-up of summer programs for those aged 8 to 16. The new Adventure Summer Camp joins the YLI’s Camp Voyager, Camp Sewee, Camp Wildlife... (Continue reading)

Asheville’s Biltmore Estates: “If These Walls Could Talk” Exhibition offers stories from the past, preview of the future

Asheville's Biltmore Estates:

Biltmore unveiled its new exhibition If These Walls Could Talk in the Second Floor Living Hall of Biltmore House May 30. Guests will discover stories behind the Vanderbilt legacy including how George and Edith Vanderbilt celebrated and announced the birth of... (Continue reading)

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Biltmore to Open Antler Hill Village in Asheville, NC Spring 2010

Biltmore to Open Antler Hill Village in Asheville, NC  Spring 2010

The Biltmore Company, which operates the National Historic Landmark Biltmore in Asheville, has announced that it will break ground on a new guest attraction, Antler Hill Village. Located adjacent to the Winery and River Bend Farm on its grounds, the... (Continue reading)

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A December marked with strange weather ends the year at Grandfather Mountain

A December marked with strange weather ends the year at Grandfather Mountain

Due to winter weather, staff members at Grandfather Mountain were only able to record weather 20 of the 31 ... (Continue reading)

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