Blue Ridge Wine Festival April 4/15 - 4/18

Blue Ridge Wine Festival in Blowing Rock Date: 4/15 - 4/18
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Come to the High Country for this wonderful wine festival in Blowing Rock. A wide assortment of wines will be available for tasting from North Carolina wineries as well as vineyards from around the globe. Find new favorites among international, domestic, and NC vintages!

Enjoy wine tastings, seminars, cooking classes, wine makers' dinner, and much more! Featuring over 30 fine wineries. Call 828-295-7851 for more information.

Let us help you to reserve a cabin, so you can come and enjoy the festival!

Fire on the Rock, Chef Challenge March 2010

Fire on the Rock Preliminary
Competition Dates:
3/2 - 3/03;
3/09-3/10
&
3/16-3/17
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The Fire on the Rock Preliminary Competition will take place at Crippen's Restaurant in Blowing Rock at 6:30 p.m. You decide who goes on to compete in the main event - rate six courses of culinary creativity! Joe Turner (Hearthstone Tavern & Grille) and Sam Ratchford (Vidalia) face off. Call 828-295-3487 to make reservations.

Fire on the Rock Quarterfinal Competition Date: 3/23 - 3/24,

You decide who goes on to compete in the main event- rate six courses of culinary creativity! This event will take place at Crippen's Restaurant in Blowing Rock at 6:30 p.m. Call 828-295-3487 to make reservations.

Come stay in one of our cabins and enjoy the great food and competition!

Ladies Night at Appalachian Ski Mountain

Appalachian Ski Mountain Ladies Night Event

February 27, 2010

March 20, 2010

That’s right ladies; ATP bringing back this event series just for you!

On 2 more select Saturday evenings throughout the rest of the season, ATP will construct a terrain park area with features specifically designed for learning and progression that will be open to ladies only. We want women of all ages and abilities, both ski and snowboard, to get together and ride in a laid-back environment among friends.

The session will begin at 7pm, with a flexible, open format of whatever you girls would like to see. If you just want to make laps through the girls-only park, sounds great! If you are starting out and want to learn how to slide your first box, or how to hit a jump properly, ATP will be staffing select Trick Tip Advisors who will be happy to help you progress. Once the session has come to an end, we have lots of prizes which will be raffled off among all participants. Best of all, the event is Free with the purchase of a ski ticket!

APPropos!
Come enjoy a musical battle of the sexes! From Georges Bizet to
Irving Berlin, the complexion and complexity of love will be a musical
treat when APPropos takes the stage at the Ashe Arts Center at 7:30
p.m. February 12, 2010.
The Appalachian State University School of Music’s faculty ensemble,
APPropos includes Joseph Amaya, baritone; Mary Gayle Greene,
mezzo-soprano; Randall Outland, tenor; Julia Pedigo, soprano;
Priscilla Porterfield, mezzo-soprano, and Rodney Reynerson, piano.
The program will include opera, classical songs, and lighter selections
from Broadway musicals. Solos, duets, trios and the full ensemble will
create a memorable evening centered around the different "types" and
"stages" of love – all told in song.

Aspects of Love will be presented on Friday evening at 7:30 p.m.
February 12, 2010 at the Ashe Arts Center in West Jefferson’s Arts
District. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and are available
in advance by calling the Arts Council at 336.846-ARTS. Don’t
miss this early Valentine’s Day musical treat!

APPALACHIAN PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA JAMES ALLEN ANDERSON, MUSIC DIRECTOR AND CONDUCTOR The Appalachian State University Hayes School

Hawksnest Resort: Recognized for having the largest Snow Tubing Park on the East Coast, they have added the longest Zip line Tour as well, featuring ten cables, two of which are known in the zip line industry as super or mega zips.

Gliding through the air with ease is trouble-free. Zippers--ages five and up--enjoy the exhilarations of speeding treetop high over valleys having expansive views and threading through the forest canopy over creeks, wild turkeys, deer, groundhogs and the occasional bear. In winter, zippers can yell to their snow tubing friends from way above as they begin their journey.

Their 20 Lane Snow Tubing Park has four different areas to snow tube; lanes are 400 – 1000 feet long. Our 2 conveyor lifts take our snow tubers back to the top for more rides. Hawksnest has 100% snow making and lighting on all lanes to provide the best possible conditions and fun for the whole family.

Also, don't forget to enjoy our Coffee Bar, Carolina BBQ and Pizza before, during and after your tubing and zipping sessions!

Edge of the World Series - Beech Mountain Resort

Edge of the World Series - Beech Mountain Resort: "Edge of the World SlopeStyle & Bordercross Series Competitions at Beech Mountain Resort. Three dates: Jan 31st, Feb 14th. Finals held on March 7th.
Come check out the EDGE VS THE WORLD Contest Series. The first installment of three contest will be held this weekend at BEECH MTN.
SIGN UP: will be in the Beech Tree from 11:00AM until NOON.
SLOPESTLYE: will begin at 12:30 in the Powder Bowl Terrain Park
BOARDERCROSS: will begin at 2:30 in the Meadows Terrain Park
Call the Shop for details. 800-SUX-EDGE"

Ski Season Is Going Strong

There are 4 area ski and tubbing slopes in the area.

• Appalachian Ski Mountain, is located in Blowing Rock. Is OPEN for it's 2010 season! Appalachian Ski Mountain offers the French Swiss Ski College for those of you that are just learning to ski and caters to all ages, young and old. Appalachian Ski Mountain also offers an outdoor ice skating arena as the perfect complement to our slopes. Located in a spectacular scenic setting overlooking the ski slopes on one side, and the Blue Ridge Mountains on the other, Appalachian's outdoor ice arena has a refrigerated ice floor, and is fully lighted for skating under the stars seven nights a week. Skaters and non-skaters can watch the action and warm up by our rinkside bonfire. They offer skate rentals in traditional figure skates, as well as hockey skates.


• Sugar Mountain Resort, is located in the village of Sugar Mountain in Avery County, NC. You will find 115 acres of ski and snowboard terrain and with a 1,200foot vertical drop. Other activities include tubing, ice skating and snowshoeing. It is scheduled to open soon with conditions permit.


• Ski Beech, is located on Beech Mountain, the highest incorporated town in the Eastern United States! Ski Beech is a PSIA certified ski school (Professional Ski Instructors of America) utilizing the American Teaching System (ATS).


• Hawksnest Resort, is located in a small town called Seven Devils, NC. As a leader in snow tubing, Hawksnest has taken their snow tubing to new levels of fun. Hawksnest’s expanded snow tubing operation will make it the biggest snow tubing operation on the East Coast. Their Snow Tubing resort will now have 4 different areas to snow tube with 20 lanes of fun, lanes will be 400 – 1000 feet long and 2 moving carpet lifts to take you back to the top. Hawksnest has 100% snowmaking and lighting on all lanes to provide the best possible conditions and fun for the whole family. Also, don't forget to enjoy their Coffee Bar, Carolina BBQ and Pizza before, during and after your tubing session! It is set to open as weather conditions permit.