ResortQuest Breckenridge Welcomes the Inagural AST Winter Dew Tour to Breckenridge Ski Resort

Breckenridge, CO (PRWEB) July 27, 2008 -- The AST, the umbrella brand and organization of today's most prestigious action sports events, has announced the host resorts and dates for the three stops of the inaugural AST Winter Dew Tour. The Winter Tour, which will feature freeskiing and snowboarding disciplines for both men and women, will kick off at Breckenridge Ski Resort in Breckenridge, Colo. (http://www.resortquestbreckenridge.com), Dec. 18-21, 2008 continue at Mount Snow Resort in West Dover, Vt., Jan. 8-11, 2009, concluding at Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort in Lake Tahoe, Calif., Feb. 19-22, 2009.

The disciplines for the men will include slopestyle and superpipe snowboarding as well as slopestyle and superpipe skiing. The disciplines for the women include slopestyle and superpipe snowboarding and slopestyle and superpipe skiing exhibitions. All three stops of the Winter Dew Tour will be televised on NBC and event information for spectators will be available prior to the start of the season.

"We are extremely excited with all three of our host resorts for the inaugural AST Winter Dew Tour," said Wade Martin, AST President. "We feel that each resort is a great fit for the AST and we look forward to the start of another successful action sports series."

"From a athletes perspective we are all really fired up about the inaugural AST Winter Dew Tour season, said Simon Dumont, 2007 World Superpipe Champion." "The AST has had huge success with their Summer series and we in the Winter sports world have been waiting for something like the Dew Tour for some time."

The Breckenridge event marks the return of the Dew Tour to Colorado after a two-year hiatus from the original summer series at the Pepsi Center in 2005-06. The five-stop summer series includes season-long competition in skateboarding, BMX freestyle and freestyle motocross, in which competitors earn points toward an overall championship cup awarded at season's end. A similar structure is planned for the winter series, with a $1.5 million competitive purse spread across the three stops.

Guests interested in lodging for the competition are encouraged to contact ResortQuest Breckenridge Vacation Rentals (http://www.resortquestbreckenridg.ecom). ResortQuest offers a complete selection of vacation rentals and lodging packages for the Winter Dew Tour along with convenient locations near the slopes and the town of Breckenridge. Guests can choose from deluxe hotel suites, 1-4 bedroom condominium and luxurious private homes in ski-in/ski-out or downtown locations. For more information on ResortQuest Breckenridge and their wide selection of vacation rentals, visit www.resortquestbreckenridge.com

ResortQuest, one of the nation's leading vacation rental hospitality and resort real estate companies, provides a one-stop resource in North America's premier resort destinations (www.resortquest.com). ResortQuest is the largest marketer and management company of vacation condominiums and home rentals in the U.S. and Canada, based on a portfolio of nearly 15,000 vacation rental properties with a combined real estate value estimated at approximately $7 billion. ResortQuest Real Estate is one of the nation's leading real estate companies focusing exclusively on resort properties, offering superior brokerage services in the country's premier beach, ski and golf destinations. ResortQuest employs more than 4,000 people and is a subsidiary of the Leucadia Corporation (NYSE: LUK).

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