Preparations for the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Vail/Beaver Creek, Colo. are well underway as officials from the FIS, the Vail Valley Foundation, Tridem Sports, EBU, Vail Resorts and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association wrapped up two days of meetings earlier this month.  

Officials visited each venue, including both the Birds of Prey and Golden Peak finish areas, as well as operational and ceremony sites. Continue reading ‘Preparations for 2015 Alpine World Championships in Vail on course’

Back by popular demand this archive image of the WSSF 2006 festival taken by Matt Walker shows just how much you'll miss the party if you don't come cout.

What merely began as a festival to celebrate the ski season’s year end, seventeen years later, Whistler’s World Ski and Snowboard Festival  ranks among the best and largest ski festivals going by attracting international skiing talent from all four corner of the planet.

Continue reading ‘Whistler ready to ramp up launch World Ski and Snowboard Festival’

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’

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 Alpine World Cup City Event planned on Jan. 1,  2012 at Munich was officially cancelled today. The lack of snow, warm temperatures with rain and no positive weather forecast into the immediate future called the end for the parallel slalom scheduled on a small hill located outside of the 'Olympia-Park' at Munich. It will not be replaced during the season.

Another 'City Event' is still planned in February at Moscow, where the best 16 skiers from the women and men World Cup standings will compete on a spectacular ramp built nearby the center of the Russian capital.