The Association participates in the winter sports carnival and sponsors several Play Days with St. Olaf and other nearby colleges.

Yet Dartmouth still is the dominant member of the Intercollegiate Ski Union, which includes the winter sports colleges of Canada as well as those of this country.

With over 120 million visitors a year tourism is integral to the Alpine economy with much it coming from winter sports although summer visitors are an important component of the tourism industry.

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

Until this point Austria and Switzerland had been the traditional and more popular destinations for winter sports, but by the end of the 20th century and into the early 21st century, France, Italy and the Tyrol began so see increases in winter visitors.

Australian football has attracted more overall interest among Australians ( as measured by the Sweeney Sports report ) than any other football code, and, when compared with all sports throughout the nation, has consistently ranked first in the winter reports, and most recently third behind cricket and swimming in summer.

Uludağ is a popular winter sports destination

Tourism is traditionally a notable source of income, particularly during the summer months, but also more recently during the winter months as well, due to an increase in popularity of snow sports such as skiing.

It is easily accessible from Athens within a day trip, and is often combined with the winter sports facilities available on Mount Parnassus, as well as the beaches and summer sports facilities of the nearby coast of Phocis.

Winter term is celebrated by Winter Carnival, a tradition started in 1911 by the Dartmouth Outing Club to promote winter sports.

Fonni is a winter sports centre with a ski lift to Monte Spada and Bruncu Spina.

Its shallow waters offer good summer swimming, and in winter its frozen surface provides excellent opportunities for winter sports.

Its shallow waters offer summer bathing and during the winter its frozen surface provides facilities for winter sports.

Furthermore, ice has numerous cultural applications, from ice cooling of drinks to winter sports and the art of ice sculpting.

With some of the largest ski mountains on the East Coast, New Hampshire's major recreational attractions include skiing, snowmobiling and other winter sports, hiking and mountaineering, observing the fall foliage, summer cottages along many lakes and the seacoast, motor sports at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and Motorcycle Week, a popular motorcycle rally held in Weirs Beach near Laconia in June.

Both sides of the Pyrenees are popular spots for winter sports such as alpine skiing and mountaineering.

* Quiksilver, a clothing brand specializing in surfing and winter sports

The stadium's all-weather playing field extends the outdoor sports season through the winter with lighting and a 2, 100 seat grandstand.

The Internationale Eislauf Vereinigung, now known as the International Skating Union, was founded at a meeting of 15 national representatives in Scheveningen in 1892, the first international winter sports federation.

However, World War I put an end to the plans of Olympic competition, and it was not until the winter sports week in Chamonix in 1924 — retroactively awarded Olympic status — that ice speed skating reached the Olympic programme.

During winter training, the pilots fly two practice sessions per day, six days a week, in order to fly the 120 training missions needed to perform the demonstration safely.

Some Neopagans time the celebration to the solar midpoint between the winter solstice and spring equinox, which now falls later in the first week or two of February.

The Opry plays there several times a week, except for an annual winter run at the Ryman.

Working hours were long: builders might work 64 hours a week in summer and 52 in winter, while domestic servants worked 80 hour weeks.

In 1921, on the convention of the IOC in Lausanne, there was a call for equality for winter sports, and after much discussion it was decided to organize an " international week of winter sport " in 1924 in Chamonix.

Currently the Opry plays several times a week at the Grand Ole Opry House, except for an annual winter run at the Ryman Auditorium.

Other popular attractions include the annual Grand Illumination ( see also here ) in Oak Bluffs ; the Martha's Vineyard Film Society which screens independent and world cinema all year long ; the Martha's Vineyard Film Festival which runs its Summer Film Series and Cinema Circus every Wednesday in July and August, the second week in August, The Run & Shoot Filmworks Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival < http :// www. mvaaff. com > which showcases the works of independent and established African-American filmmakers and its winter festival in March ; Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival in September, Katama Farm in Edgartown ; and the Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs, the oldest carousel in the United States.

Although severe weather is unusual and generally forecast, it has claimed several lives over the years, including a party of five soldiers and one naval rating, caught in a week long storm while undergoing winter survival training in 1990.

Working hours were long: builders worked 64 hours a week in summer and 52 in winter, while domestic servants worked 80 hour weeks.

On 22 January 2008, RJ launched flights to Hong Kong via Bangkok, with three flights / week during winter, and five flights / week during summer, making it the airline's first route to China.

* The Games also featured a week of winter sports, with figure skating appearing for the first time since the 1908 Olympics, and ice hockey making its Olympic debut.

The Bemidji Polar days is a week long event held during the winter months.

Each June for nine days beginning on the Saturday of the weekend before Father's Day and ending on Father's Day, the city hosts Laconia Motorcycle Week, also more simply known as ' bike week ', one of the country's largest rallies, and each winter, the Laconia World Championship Sled Dog Derby.

The school is said to have been completely unoccupied at the time of the fire, as the entire school district is on winter break for the week.

Many islanders use the winter as time off, since they tend to work between 60 and 80 hours a week during the tourist season.

Supplies and perishables are flown to the island during the winter months along with the mail, parcels and bank employees who staff the island's only bank ( for one day a week ) until the spring.

The Fick Fossil and History Museum is open seven days a week in summer, with shorter hours in winter.

Now, with their winter quarters threatened, Frederick William of Brandenburg was forced to leave Alsace, and crossed the following week the Rhine River, back into present-day Germany.

Mclnturff states: a stratospheric warming is called minor if a significant temperature increase is observed ( that is, at least 25 degrees in a period of week or less ) at any stratospheric level in any area of winter time hemisphere.

Bacon spent the autumn and winter of 1926 in London, with the help of an allowance of £ 3 a week from his mother's trust fund, living on his instincts, simply ' drifting ', and reading Nietzsche.

Riding trains, hitching hikes on trucks across Germany, slipping through guarded frontiers with the help of secret guides, he eventually reached Vichy France, and, by the winter of 1943, was back in Virginia.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

He had braved the elements and the enemy, but the strain, aided by the winter, was catching up with him at last.

She was ready to kill the beef, dress it out, and with vegetables from her garden was going to can soup, broth, hash, and stew against the winter.

winter came, and with it Mary's baby -- a boy as she had wished.

When winter comes be ready with additional mulch.

You should be prepared to cope with any pitfall such as plunges into empty pools or shallow ends and all manner of winter as well as summer lawsuits.

like an ominous bird a-wing '', or `` wrings with wrong '', or would describe a winter sun as `` God-curst ''.

Dartmouth students ski everywhere in winter, starting with their own front door.

Kowalski, a roofer who seldom worked last winter, already was in arrears on their recently purchased split-level home when the tragedy staggered him with medical and funeral bills.

Night after night he stayed with Gunny in the dead of winter, rubbing her with quarts of expensive liniment, fussing over her bran mash as the cook did over charlotte russe, tracking manure on the pretty new carpet when he did come to the house.

In winter, in the city, there had been the Maneret School, which taught excellently with a kind of austere passion for knowledge ; ;

but she had stayed all winter, and Cathy had stayed all winter too -- with them.

Even though they do not compete directly with cultivated plants, sometimes winter annuals are considered a pest in commercial agriculture, because they can be hosts for insect pests or fungal diseases ( ovary smut – Microbotryum sp ) which attack crops being cultivated.

* Aegean Sea Surface Water – thick veneer, with summer temperatures of 21 – 26 ° C and winter temperatures ranging from in the north to in the south.

In general, the plateau experiences high temperatures and almost no rainfall in summer and cold weather with heavy snow in winter.

About 30 countries maintain about seventy research stations ( 40 year-round or permanent, and 30 summer-only ) in Antarctica, with an approximate population of 4000 in summer and 1000 in winter.

) Flights to the continent in the permanent darkness of the winter are normally only undertaken in an emergency, with burning barrels of fuel to outline a runway.

At Montgomery, in the central region, the average annual temperature is 66 ° F ( 19 ° C ), with a winter average of 49 ° F ( 9 ° C ), and a summer average of 81 ° F ( 27 ° C ).

During each winter there is usually one fall of snow in the south and two in the north ; but the snow quickly disappears, and sometimes, during an entire winter, the ground is not covered with snow.