Organizers of Snowbombing 2012 are ‘smoking’ with anger after Snoop Dogg backed out of the April event.

The organisers off the Snowbombing 2012 festival week in Mayrhofen, Austria, this April are scrambling to find a new headliner after Snoop Dogg has declined to take part in the event.

Continue reading ‘Snoop Dogg drops a ‘Bomb’ on Austrian event’

Dragons are this year’s theme at Ischgl as sculptors have carved them out of snow during the annual festival.

Just in time for the Chinese New Year, the Welsh Dragon is standing guard on the slopes of the top Austrian ski resort of Ischgl (www.ischgl.com), one of a mighty group of dragons currently creating a stunning spectacle on the resort’s ski slopes. Continue reading ‘Snow dragons displayed at Ischghl’

President Václav Klaus (pictured above) is a keen skier who wants to be the first on the new controversial lift when it opens.

Czech Republic Environment Minister Tomáš Chalupa (ODS) has given the light in draft zoning law to build a ski lift in protected Šumava National Park despite environmental reports reporting the project should not proceed.

Continue reading ‘Controversial plans to link Czech Republic and Austria by ski lift angers environmentalists’

Many European ski resorts were forced with road closures due to a snowstorm.

Heavy snow fell on many parts of the European Alps a couple of weeks ago, cutting access off to some of the more popular ski resorts because of a rising avalanche danger. Continue reading ‘Extreme snow cuts off several European resorts from civilization!’

Doppelmayr has reported increased revenues of 2.5% for the fiscal year of 2010-11.

The world’s leading ski lift manufacturer Doppelmayr Group has reported a revenue increase of 2.5% to its results for the 2010/11  fiscal year and says 126 new ski lifts were built by the company with income of EUR 618.2 million ($ 806.9 million USD). Continue reading ‘Doppelmayr business increases by 2.5%’

Jimmy Carr is among the headline performers at the 2012 edition of the Altitude Festival in Mayrhofen, Austria.

The Altitude Comedy Festival (www.altitudefestival.com) will host some of the world’s biggest names in comedy performing at one of the best ski resorts in Europe, skirebel.com has learned. Continue reading ‘Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle to headline Altitude Comedy Festival in Mayrhofen’

Galtur ski resort in Austria is proposing new ski packages for families and parents.

The Austrian resort of Galtur (www.galtuer.com) has put together offers to attract more families this winter. Continue reading ‘Galtur develops budget friendly family ski vacations’