Help us determine the best ski area in the Northwest by voting for your favorite resort, lodge food, ski run and more.

Click below to take the quick survey. Your favorites will featured in 2008-09 Ski preview sections in newspapers across the Northwest. Voters from around the region - Idaho, Washington, Oregon and B.C. - are participating so make sure your favorites are well represented.

2008-09 Snow Ride Guide Survey

This isn't necessarily Olympic related, but we'd love to have your help:

Help us determine the best ski area in the Northwest by voting for your favorite resort, lodge food, ski run and more.

Click below to take the quick survey. Your favorites will featured in 2008-09 Ski preview sections in newspapers across the Northwest. Voters from around the region - Idaho, Washington, Oregon and B.C. - are participating so make sure your favorites are well represented.

2008-09 Snow Ride Guide Survey

The U.S. Ski and Snowboard teams are celebrating solid seasons today.

Here are some of the achievements they are highlighting in a recent press release:

SKI TEAM
· Julia Mancuso’s (Olympic Valley, CA) tally of 10 alpine podiums with four wins in her historic run to finish third in the World Cup overall, the best women’s season since 1984
· Bode Miller (Bretton Woods, NH) winning four World Cups this season for 25 in his career, two shy of Phil Mahre’s U.S. record, with two in super G en route to his second SG World Cup title
· Jeret Peterson (Boise, ID) landing his “Hurricane”, the most difficult jump in aerials, to set the world record for highest score on one jump and most points in a World Cup contest
· Kikkan Randall (Anchorage, AK) notching the first women’s World Cup cross country podium in U.S. history
· Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT) finished the season ranked sixth sprint rankings, the best U.S. standing since the sprints were added in 1996
· Bill Demong (Vermontville, NY) capturing a silver medal in nordic combined at the World Championships, then charging to two more World Cup podiums to close the season
· Lindsey Van (Park City, UT) finishing in the Continental Cup top three standings for the third straight year for U.S. Women’s Ski Jumping Team
· Stephani Victor (Park City, UT), who led the U.S. Disabled Ski Team by winning the World Cup overall, slalom and giant slalom titles in the sit-ski class.

SNOWBOARD TEAM
· Gretchen Bleiler (Aspen, CO) stood on top of the podium in World Cup, US Open, U.s. Grand Prix and X Games.
· Steve Fisher (Breckenridge, CO) won his second X Games gold.
· Tommy Czeschin (Mammoth Lakes, CA) finished on the podium at every Grand Prix event.
· Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, VT) repeated as SBX world champ and took a silver at the X Games.
· Nate Holland (Squaw Valley, CA) took a bronze at the world championships and silver at the X Games.

With the day off at the Skiing World Championships (Sweden's Anja Paerson, yesterday's Super G winner, had the best downhill time in women's practice today), check out this fun read from ESPN columnist Carrie Sheinberg.
Sheinberg looks at what X Game-style events will be next to find a place in the Olympics.
Hey if we can have borderline sports like figure skating, ice dancing and curling in the games, why can't we make room from slopestyle and ski pipe. Just keep out the snowmobile races.

What would you like to see the Olympics add? And what sports could you do without?

X Games 11 start today with the women's super pipe finals tonight. These games are a good opportunity to check out likely 2010 athletes, unless, of course, you are tuning in to watch the snowmobile races.

Here's the TV schedule.