Professional freestyle skier Kaya Turski at Seven Springs.
Hidden Valley will start the 2009-2010 season with free lift tickets. Wisp, the resort that overlooks Deep Creek Lake in McHenry, Md., will celebrate its birthday with $7 lift tickets on Dec. 13 and 14. (Today)
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Eric Singer throws in a city league flag football game in Polish Hill.
It's mid-October in the No. 1 Sports City in America, according to the Sporting News. It is 8 a.m. (Today)
While flag football got the PSL league started in 2000, the PSL now features 16 total sports with more continuing to be added. (Today)
The Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks, a division of the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, recently won top honors in a nationwide evaluation of park systems. (Today)
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Jay Bowen carves a turn during an early-morning run last winter at Stowe Mountain Resort in Vermont.
Expert skiers seeking something new this season in New England might check out New Hampshire's reopened Mittersill ski area, next to Cannon Mountain. (Today)