Browsing entries tagged with Saas Fee
29 Jun 2011
Freestyle fans will be keeping their fingers crossed that this year’s Saas Fee Ride will go ahead as planned on 23 July. Saas Fee’s biggest summer snow festival marks the start of the glacier…
31 May 2011
Summer skiing is to get a challenge boost with news that Saas Fee is to introduce a mogul area to its slopes. New for this summer will be four different mogul lanes, set up for all abilities on the Allalin…
18 May 2011
Two Saas Fee restaurants have been voted top-notch in the country’s Best of Swiss Gastro Awards 2010/11. The restaurant in the Panorama Hotel Alphubel and the Berghaus Vernissage Plattjen won…
17 Nov 2010
Saas Fee is a picture postcard example of the recent Alpine snowfall this week, in particular Swiss Alpine snowfall. Doesn’t it look stunning? Those mouthwateringly tempting mountains are only open…
28 Oct 2010
You can start the season in Saas Fee a little earlier this year, with two non-glacier lifts opening a forthnight early. The Swiss resort has announced plans to open the Spielboden and Längfluh gondola…
26 Aug 2010
Switzerland’s Sion airport has won a new safety certificate that gives it full international approval by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), which should help to promote and market…
18 Jul 2010
The Saas-Fee summer freestyle event, the Ride, has been cancelled for a second year running. The event was due to take place in the Swiss resort this weekend (17/18 July), but hot weather in the Alps…
29 Jun 2010
Saas Fee will resume snow sports on 3 July, when the glacier slopes are due to reopen. And first up for summer fun will be the annual Ride event. The 8th Saas Fee Ride is planned for 17 July, when the…
12 Apr 2010
Saas Fee is preparing to stage the 28th Allalin open downhill races between 16 and 18 April, the world’s highest glacier racing. The Allalin races are open to all and a popular end-of-winter-season attraction…
22 Dec 2009
If you’re in Saas Fee in January, the Ice Climbing World Championships is a thrilling diversion off the slopes. And there is much more besides … The Ice Climbing World Championships attracts some of…
5 Nov 2009
The world’s leading snowboarders are in action in Saas Fee this week for the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup – at least they are trying to be in between the recent snowfall. The main events started Thursday…
17 Jul 2009
Sad news for fans of Saas Fee’s big summer freestyle event: the 10th annual Ride competition has been cancelled due to poor weather conditions.The freestyle event was due to take place on the Allalin…
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