NEWRY — Months of preparation and training came together on Saturday for 3,500 registered entrants at Sunday River Ski Resort’s sixth annual Tough Mountain Challenge. For morning racer Christopher Parish, 26, of Sanford, everything fell into place at noon in one sublime moment in front of thousands of people when his girlfriend, Oxford Hills native […]
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3,500 racers to compete in 6th annual Sunday River Tough Mountain Challenge
NEWRY — Sunday River Ski Resort will host its sixth annual Tough Mountain Challenge, where 3,500 participants will compete in a 4-mile mud race featuring a variety of natural and man-made obstacles on the slope’s trails. Spokeswoman Sarah Devlin said the Tough Mountain Challenge was created in 2010 to bring people to the mountain during […]
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Young man suffers head injury in skiing mishap at Newry resort
Updated NEWRY — A young man was seriously injured in a skiing collision on Saturday morning at Sunday River Ski Resort. Spokeswoman Sarah Devlin said Saturday afternoon that the incident happened at about 9 a.m. near the bottom of 3D Trail on North Peak. It is an intermediate-skill trail with a terrain park. According to […]
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Red Bull Frozen Rush event at Sunday River set for Jan. 8, 9
NEWRY — Sunday River Resort will host its second annual Red Bull Frozen Rush event on Thursday and Friday Jan. 8 and 9, Director of Communications Sarah Devlin said. The event, which consists of a series of head-to-head races using off-road trucks, began in 2013, when eight professional truck drivers raced two at a time […]
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Skiers flock to Sunday River trails for early opening
NEWRY – When Gary Lajoie woke up Monday morning, he visited the Sunday River Ski Resort website to see if they would be continuing to make snow over the course of the week. Instead, he was pleasantly surprised to see that they would be open from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday, with one trail […]