Browsing entries tagged with Snowboard
26 Sep 2013
Have a bobble hat at the ready and in London this weekend? Head along to the Fulham Ski Fête on Sunday afternoon to help break the world record for the largest gathering of people wearing bobble hats…
24 Sep 2013
Readers of Where to Ski and Snowboard are very loyal, and many have followed the book since we first started to publish it in 1994 — but recently we came across something of a record. Specialist Canadian…
23 Sep 2013
Over the past two weeks we’ve had reports of snow falling in the Alps — and last weekend the Stubai Glacier and Rettenbach Glacier (Sölden) opened in the Tirol, Austria, meaning that all five of…
20 Sep 2013
Crystal Ski Holidays has teamed up with ski school Evolution 2 to offer social skiing for its customers in France. In February British tour operators withdrew ski hosting or guiding from their programmes…
19 Sep 2013
Crystal Ski and Ski Amis are among a number of shortlisted contenders for Best Ski and Winter Sports Holiday Company in the British Travel Awards. The British Travel Awards are the largest consumer voted…
17 Sep 2013
A mountain restaurant in Zermatt will be serving up in-flight meals on SWISS flights this winter. The family-run Chez Vrony is a long-standing favourite restaurant of both the editors and readers of Where…
16 Sep 2013
More than 300 kitesurfers set a world record yesterday, and raised £60,000 in the process for UK snowsports charity Snow-Camp, the RNLI and Virgin Unite. The Virgin Kitesurfing Armada, of 318 kitesurfers…
12 Sep 2013
Piste length does matter, according to our readers. Some 83% of you have told us that size really matters, and to choose a ski resort for your winter holiday you need to know the facts. We’re still waiting…
10 Sep 2013
Where to Ski and Snowboard 2014 has lifted the lid on a big ski resort secret: the gross exaggeration of piste lengths. In the new edition of Where to Ski and Snowboard, released last Monday, editors Chris…
9 Sep 2013
Fancy a job in a ski resort with a difference? W Verbier, the Swiss ski resort’s newest five-star hotel, is looking for a resident DJ. Verbier is fast becoming known as the Ibiza of ski resorts, with…
6 Sep 2013
Ski and snowboard holiday bookings are up 10 per cent on last year, according to some of the UK’s major winter tour operators. Crystal, Thomson, Esprit Ski, Ski Total, Peak Retreats and Ski Collection…
1 Sep 2013
An indoor ski slope in Manchester is reporting a huge rise in the number of older people taking up snowboarding. Chill Factore in Manchester reports a 350 per cent rise in people over the age of 50 trying…
30 Aug 2013
The Three Valleys in France is the latest ski area to join Vail Resort’s Epic Pass, which already includes ski days Verbier and the Arlberg as well as the entire season in ten USA ski resorts. The Three…
28 Aug 2013
Skier Chemmy Alcott has broken her leg training. It is yet another setback for the 31-year-old whose career has been dogged by injury — but she maintains she will still race in the 2014 Sochi Winter…
23 Aug 2013
Thomson is adding 13 new regional flight routes to its ski programme this winter. The new routes to European ski slopes include departures from East Midlands, Liverpool, Southend, Southampton, Glasgow…
22 Aug 2013
Details of the first ever Olympic slopestyle course have been released by the International Ski Federation (FIS). The course, for the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games (7-23 February 2014), will be 635m…
20 Aug 2013
InTheSnow Live, the ski show planned for Birmingham in October, has been cancelled following a clash of dates with a new show launching in Manchester. Running in the place of the British Ski and Snowboard…
18 Aug 2013
The 18th edition of Where to Ski and Snowboard, fully revised and updated for the 2013/14 winter season, will be available soon. The “skiers bible”, edited by Chris Gill and Dave Watts will be…
16 Aug 2013
A new scheme to encourage more Brits to try skiing and snowboarding is to launch next month. Go Ski Go Board is run by Snowsport England in conjunction with the Tirol Tourist Board. It brings together…
9 Aug 2013
One of the biggest and most popular snowboarding events in Davos will not take place this season. The 6* TTR O’Neill Evolution, which since its 2006 launch kicked off the new competition year will…
7 Aug 2013
This winter, the Swiss ski resort of Arosa is linking its ski area with nearby Lenzerheide. The combined ski area will now total around 225km of pistes and 42 lifts. A new 1,694m cable car, capable of…
5 Aug 2013
Going skiing on the Eurostar this winter? Well get ready to book — tickets will go on sale at 6.30am tomorrow morning, Tuesday 6 August. For the second year running, Eurostar will run a Swiss ski train…
31 Jul 2013
Steamboat Springs is planning to introduce floodlights on five ski runs for this coming season. The plan would light up around 1,000 vertical feet on Sitz, See Me, See Ya, Vogue and Stampede as well as…
18 Jul 2013
Cosmos Holidays has launched a ski and snowboard programme for the first time ever this week, as news of a revival of fortunes in the British ski industry was revealed. Over the coming winter season, Cosmos…
16 Jul 2013
The number of UK skiers taking a ski holiday grew over the 2012/2013 season, for the first time in four years. Some 5,000 more skiers and snowboarders took a winter sports holiday last year, an increase…
12 Jul 2013
Verbier is opening to skiers and snowboarders this weekend as a one-off thanks to the good layer of snow at the top of Mont Fort. The cold, prolonged spring and excellent snow conditions means there is…
10 Jul 2013
British snowboarder Jamie Barrow has set the world’s first indoor snowboard speed record. Jamie reached a speed of 69.4kmph on the 520m indoor slopes at SnowWorld in Landgraaf, Holland, on Saturday,…
8 Jul 2013
Nearly 300,000 “skier days” were had in Scotland’s ski resorts last season, giving the country one of its best winter seasons on record. Between them, revenue from the five ski centres injected about…
5 Jul 2013
SWISS will be flying from London Gatwick to Geneva three times a week from 14 December. The airline is also introducing new fares, offering one-way trips from London to Geneva for as little as €39 (£33.60…
1 Jul 2013
Cortina d’Amprezzo in the Italian Dolomites opened some of its ski slopes last weekend for the first time in 12 years. Fresh snow led to the re-opening of the Freccia Nel Cielo cable car in Cortina from…
28 Jun 2013
There’s nothing like stopping for a lovely plate of spaghetti bolognaise in the middle of the skiing day. Hot, satisfying and packed with carbs (and parmesan), it’s our favourite (well, Web Editor…
26 Jun 2013
Mount Hutt in New Zealand opened again yesterday after a record-breaking storm dumped three metres of snow on the ski area late last week and over the weekend. Conditions were “as good as it gets”…
25 Jun 2013
The summer season has begun in Les Deux Alpes, France, where the glacier opened last Saturday, 22 June. More than 3,000 skiers and snowboarders headed to the French ski resort to enjoy “excellent”…
20 Jun 2013
Breckenridge is adding more than 540 acres to its ski area during next season — boosting the resort’s skiable terrain by 23 per cent. The resort in Colorado, which currently has 2,358 acres at 2,925m,…
18 Jun 2013
America is reporting a bumper ski season, thanks to great snow conditions over the 2012/2013. Eleven per cent more skiers and snowboarders visited US ski areas last season than during the 2011/12…
16 Jun 2013
A snowboarder from Aviemore last week built his own slope and snowboard ramp to celebrate his birthday. Mike Jachacy, a 31-year-old snowboard coach, enlisted the help of nine friends and a 4x4, van and…
14 Jun 2013
To cope with a busy ski season in the southern hemisphere, more flights have been laid on between Wellington and Queenstown in New Zealand. The ski season opened in Coronet Peak near Queenstown last weekend…
11 Jun 2013
Missing your snowboard? Why not have a go at kitesurfing? Snow-Camp, the charity that uses skiing, snowboarding and life skills programmes to support inner-city young people, is putting together a record-breaking…
7 Jun 2013
What a weird summer we are having. The flooding of last weekend in Austria, Germany and Switzerland has calmed, but the snow on the mountains across Europe has stayed and resorts are gearing up for their…
6 Jun 2013
A new “world class” ski resort is being built in North Korea ready for next winter. The country’s supreme leader, Kim Jong-un has ordered his military to build a resort on the site of the Masik Pass…
4 Jun 2013
Vail resorts, the company that owns ski resorts across the US, will be running Canyons in Park City, Utah from next season. The deal will cost upwards of $25million a year. Canyons has 4,000 skiable acres…
26 May 2013
Heavy snow is wreaking havoc in the Alps, where winter refuses to give up its grip and unusually cold conditions continue to prevail. This photo of the Col du Petit Saint Bernard, the route between Italy…
3 Jan 2013
Later this month month, winter sports destinations in 39 countries worldwide will join forces to celebrate World Snow Day, on Sunday 20 January. World Snow Day was started last year by the International…
30 Oct 2012
Imagine a set of ski goggles that put your exact position onto a resort map, tell you where your friends are, track the speed you’re skiing, the vertical descent you last skied, how high your last jump…
30 Oct 2012
Have you had a snowboard stolen this summer? Police in Bristol are asking snowboarders in the area to check their equipment is safe after recovering a board they believe was stolen. The snowboard, which…
3 Feb 2011
The Aspen edition of the Winter X Cross games has taken place during the past week or so, with good news for British slopestyle rider Jenny Jones. Jones won silver in the slopestyle contest at the 15th…
16 Feb 2010
Britain’s Zoe Gillings has finished a very respectable eighth in the Olympic women’s snowboard cross, reaching the semi finals. But it was Canada that eventually took the gold medal, with a…
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