The longest race of the Ski Club of Great Britain, the Luttman-Johnson, is set to go next month.

The Ski Club of Great Britain’s longest-running mountain event, the Luttman-Johnson Challenge (skiclub.co.uk), is back this February.  Now in its 38th year, the unique mountain restaurant race continues to attract over 40 teams of skiers and snowboarders – some new to the race experience and other cult followers who have been perfecting their championship formula since Luttman first launched the event in 1974. Continue reading ‘Luttman-Johnson Challenge back again in Zermatt’

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’

Les Gets is offering a Valentine's dinner for two on the Mont Chery gondola.

Les Gets in France is offering the chance to ‘surprise your loved one’ with a romantic dinner by starlight in the Mont Chery gondola on Valentine’s Day 2012. Continue reading ‘Mont Chery, have you ever eaten Ostrich on a ski lift?’

Basement Jaxx to headline Big Snow Festival at a serbian ski resort in March.

British electro-dance legends Basement Jaxx (DJ Set) will headline The Big Snow Festival (www.thebigsnowfestival.com), which returns to the serbian slopes Kopaonik from March 23rd to 29th, promising snow and music fans a week of adrenalin pounding entertainment.  Continue reading ‘Basement Jaxx to headline 2012 Big Snow Festival’

The Burton Open 2012 was postponed due to warm weather

In a sign that all was not well with early snow conditions in the Swiss Alps, Burton Snowboards and LAAX decided to postpone the Burton European Open from January 2012 to the end of February , “Due to the current weather conditions.”
“Burton and LAAX are committed to providing a very high standard of Slopestyle and Halfpipe snowboarding events. The temperatures at the moment do not allow preparation of a park set-up in time that meets the expectations of organizers and riders. For this reason postponement of the event has been confirmed.” said a statement from Burton in mid-November.
The Burton European Open is now scheduled from Feb. 25th – March 3rd, 2012.

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Skiing the Edge, a e-book edited by Jules Older goes on sale Dec. 1

It used to be that ski writers would earn a pretty good keep. Things have changed quite a bit and some of the best names have had to steer away from the industry due to waning sales and publications. But that didn’t stop Jules Older one bit. Continue reading ‘All-Star lineup of ski writers come together for E-book’