Wintersports Rediscovered
Lake Wanaka brings a successful winter season to a close this weekend with all four resorts, Treble Cone, Snow Park NZ, Cardrona Alpine Resort and Snow Farm, reporting good visitor numbers, great snow conditions throughout and many successful world-class events.
Continue reading ‘NZ’s Lake Wanaka season a smashing success!’
The international web ski forecaster skiinfo has reported large snow dumps across most european resorts with Austria getting most of the snow.
More than 70 cm (28 inches) of snow in the past few days have given an early head start to dozens of European ski resorts with exceptional powder conditions. For the rest of the continent’s leading resorts, it means a big boost in anticipation of the coming winter.
Continue reading ‘Snow dump kickstarts 2008 ski season in Europe’
We received this nifty editorial package from our friends at Tourism BC last week and figured it was perfect to give you a quick overview of some of the many ski options that are coming your way this winter in Canada. Initial snow reports are looking good…
Continue reading ‘B.C. winter ski resort roundup’
Southern French ski resort Risoul has taken the concept of ‘speed dating’ a stage further and taken the obvious step of moving the whole experience on to a chairlift. The Clos du Vallon chairlift in fact, a ‘romantic’ two seater that takes about ten minutes to climb the slopes. It’s a far better choice than the modern high-speed detachable chairs which just give you a quick ride then dump you unceremoniously at the top.
It could be high pressure for anyone who inadvertently stumbles upon the Clols du Vollon chair during Risoul’s second Singles Week which will run from March 28th to April 4th. They’ll find a glass of vin chaud pressed upon them and that then they’ll be loaded on to the chair with a complete stranger for the 10 minute chairlift “speed” date.
At the top of the lift you can decide whether to ski off hand in hand in to the sunset (probably best to let go when you pick up speed), or go back down and try a ride up with someone else.
“Risoul might just be offering much more than you initially came for!,” jokingly said a resort spokesperson.
www.risoul.com