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	<description>Wintersports Rediscovered</description>
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		<title>Growing ski rental sales another sign of industry recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The newest evidence of a recovery in the European ski industry is growing sales numbers from a French Alps-based ski rental company.
Ski Republic has reported its ski rental sales are up 34% this season compared to the winter of 2008-9. UK customers represent 55% of turnover and around 50% of all bookings now being received [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skirebel.com/magazine/archives/6283</link>
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		<title>Austria&#8217;s St Anton gears up for spring festival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[St Anton in the Austrian Alps is preparing for a full range of events for the final weeks of the ski season.
The Intersport Spring Festival from the 9th to the 11th of April is now an integral part of St. Anton am Arlberg’s event calendar. During the event, some of Austria’s leading snowsport athletes  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skirebel.com/magazine/archives/6277</link>
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		<title>Researchers dig into Alpine rockslides caused by global warming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rock slides blocking prominent alpine routes have become a prominent issue in the Alps. 
Due to global warming, the permafrost is unfreezing by degrees, giving way to a fast erosion of high peaks like the Swiss Matterhorn.
An interdisciplinary team from the Universities of Basel and Zurich and other organisations are researching the processes involved in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skirebel.com/magazine/archives/6279</link>
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		<title>British ski centres get government funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The British government has decided that skiing and ski tourism are a worthwhile investment.
Snowsport England has announced that it is to receive £985,000 of Government and National Lottery funding to get more people skiing and snowboarding in high quality environments.
Manchester’s Chill Factore is one of the venues set to benefit from the funding. In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skirebel.com/magazine/archives/6312</link>
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		<title>Ski cross takes European leap forward with GMX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the introduction of Ski Cross to the Olympics last month, the sport may be taking off outside of it&#8217;s North American roots.
The next generation of ski cross racers will be taking to the slopes of Les Arcs in the giant French Paradiski region for The  Gavaggio Master Cross race on the 28th of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skirebel.com/magazine/archives/6357</link>
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		<title>St. Gervais ski resort</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
There has been a long and bitter rivalry between ski resorts in Europe for almost 200 years. In fact, I have no trouble imagining a couple of Gallic Neanderthals turning their noses up at the slopes outside their neighbours caves several thousand years ago. However, one can only really go on the recommendations of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skirebel.com/magazine/archives/6370</link>
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		<title>The run that&#8217;s older than skiing itself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The famous Cresta Run at St Moritz was first built as a toboggan run several decades before downhill skiing took off as a winter sport.
Built by visiting British tourists in the mid-1880s, the run celebrates its 125th anniversary this winter.
The Cresta Run remains privately-operated by the British St. Moritz Tobogganing Club, which is based in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skirebel.com/magazine/archives/6356</link>
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		<title>Europe&#8217;s top 10 ski destinations as chosen by UK travelers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[European discount airline Easyjet recently released the top-10 winter ski resort destinations by  British skiers and have compiled them into a hot list. Ski Rebel Magazine has managed to get a copy and has them available for you if you read on&#8230;

10.     Arinsal, Andorra
9.       Soll, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skirebel.com/magazine/archives/6350</link>
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		<title>Telluride installs chute access stairway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Telluride ski resort in Colorado has airlifted a new bridge and staircase to Gold Hill on left shoulder of Palmyra Peak.
Canadian helicopter company Heliqwest airlifted two steel staircases and a bridge over the ski resort to its final resting place, the span between Gold Hill Chutes 8 and 9. The new stairway is already open [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skirebel.com/magazine/archives/6352</link>
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		<title>Whistler and Tremblant stay in Intrawest-Fortress hands, for now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It appears the troubled company which owns major North American ski resort operator Intrawest has been granted another chance to survive. 
The Fortress Investment Group LLC owns Intrawest, operator of leading Canadian resorts of Mont Tremblant and recent Olympic venue Whistler. Fortress is reported to have reached agreement with its creditors to extend the time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.skirebel.com/magazine/archives/6351</link>
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