ADVISORY/Firefighter's Ski Races at Big Boulder Ski Area March 3.City Desks/Assignment Desks ADVISORY...for Monday (March 3) --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Highly visual event ideal for television and news photographers. Cover your community teams in competition. Firefighter's Ski Races Dressed in full "Turnout" gear including helmets, with each firefighter-racer hanging on to the same 50-foot hose, five-person teams from the Tri State (hardware) tri state - A feature of some digital electronic devices which allows a connector (pin) to either act as a normal output, driving a signal onto a line, or to be "tri stated" - set to a high-impedance ("high Z") condition. area attempt to navigate a slalom slalom Alpine skiing event in which competitors race one at a time down a zigzag or wavy course past a series of flags or markers called gates. The course is carefully designed to test the skier's skill, timing, and judgment. race course down Big Boulder Mountain's intermediate course. Last year the winning Pro team was from Scranton, Pa. The winning amateur team last year was from Shawnee, Pa. DATE: Monday, March 3, 2003--Registration 9am to 11:00 am. Races begin at 11:30 PLACE: Big Boulder Mountain, Blakeslee, Pa. Blakeslee is a one hour drive from Philadelphia and less than two hours from metropolitan New York. DETAILS: This is the 15th annual Big Boulder Firefighters Race. Both professional firefighters and volunteer teams are welcome. Individual competitors will be placed in teams. Entry fee per person is $30 and entitles competitor to a full day lift ticket, two race runs and awards ceremony following competition with lunch buffet, prizes and a raffle. Location and Directions Situated in the beautiful Pocono Mountains Pocono Mountains (pō`kənō), range of the Appalachian system, c.2,000 ft (610 m) high, NE Pa. Forested and having many lakes and streams, the Poconos are a major resort area. of Pennsylvania, Jack Frost Jack Frost personification of winter. [Pop. Culture: Misc.] See : Winter and Big Boulder are less than two hours from Metropolitan New York/New Jersey and just an hour's drive from Philadelphia. Directions: from Philadelphia - Route 476 to exit 95 and follow the signs. From NY/NJ NY/NJ New York/New Jersey - Route 80 westbound to exit 284 and follow the signs. For reservations or further information, call 1-800-468-2442. On the internet, visit Jack Frost & Big Boulder at www.jfbb.com Sign up for ski mail (special events and packages) at the same internet address There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. . |
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