Search archived external news

! Online you'd like to search by using the "Search Index" drop-down box:

Online" searches the main portion of our website, including current news (within the past 14 days).

Tip: Don't worry if you find a large number of results. In fact, use more than a couple of words when searching. Even though the number of results will be large, the most relevant content will always appear at the top of the result pages.

Here's a quick overview of the rest of our Basic Help. Just click on the links to jump to these sections.
What is an Index?

of material. Our index is a large, organized listing of all content on First Tracks!!

Online that grows as the site grows. The 'index' becomes larger every day as we continue to expand our snowsports information offerings. When you use our search service, you search our entire content using keywords or phrases.

What is a Word?
When searching, think of a word as a combination of letters and numbers. find exactly what you want on the First Tracks!

! Online. You can separate words using white space and tabs.

What is a Phrase?
words or numbers to appear together in your result pages. If you want to find an exact phrase, use "double quotation marks" around the phrase when you enter words in the search box.

Example #1: If we ran a site about Elvis Presley, to find lyrics by the King, type "you ain't nothing but a hound dog" in the search box. such as dashes, underscore lines, commas, slashes, or dots.
800 999 9999.

The dashes link the numbers together as a phrase.
Searches are case insensitive. Searching for "Marker" will match the By default, all searches are accent insensitive as well.

Accent sensitivity topic, place the plus (+) symbol before the key word in the search box. topic, place a minus (-) sign before the keyword in the search box.
Example: To find tuning tips for snowboards but not skis, try "tuning By typing an * at the end of a keyword, you can search for the word Example: Try ski*, to find ski, skier, skiing and ski-bob.

If your search term is a URL, like "http://www.yahoo.com/", some search engines will redirect you directly to the URL.

To avoid this behavior, and do an actual search with the URL as the search term, enclose the URL in double-quotes.
You can search more than just text. Here are all of the other ways Finds pages that link to the specified address, or a substring of it.

Use link:microsoft.com to find all pages linking to Microsoft sites. other than an image tag, link, or URL.

The search text:powder would find all pages with the term powder in them.
would find pages with Aspen in the title.
Finds pages with a specific word or phrase in the URL.

Use url:altavista host name, path, or filename - the complete URL, in other words.