Beware ski travellers. Read the fine print. With the slew of accidents at local ski hills more and more travel insurance companies have been modifying policies that require helmets while enjoying snowsports. The UK travel insurance Essential Travel recently made the move to modify the terms of travel insurance policies. Continue reading ‘Insurance companies to require helmets’

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Vail Resorts is extending its ski resort portfolio across five states, with the purchase of two new resorts in the US Midwest with Afton Alps and Mount Brighton.  Continue reading ‘Vail targets the east with expansion’

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(SkiRacing.com) - With television coverage of ski racing seemingly fading away in the US, the plan for broadcasting the Schladming World Championships Feb. 5-17 will include 50 hours of air time created from more than 100 cameras, including what the Austrian network ORF if calling the “Flying Camera,” suspended over the course and capable of keeping up with moving targets moving 140kph. But perhaps the most exciting angles will come from what venerable British journalist Nic Fellows calls “A crashing little gizmo,” a camera, Continue reading 'Helmet cams a possibility for World Champs'  Print This Post

(skiracing.com) - Thirty-six percent of the ski racing stars Head introduced at its pre-season press conference at Solden, Austria Thursday (Oct. 25), were Americans. That is not an accident according to Head boss Johan Eliasch. Does it speak to the strength of the US team, we asked? “It does,” Eliasch responds. “We don't select our athletes by nationality. We pick them by personality and performance.” Continue reading 'Ten more years for Vonn? Head thinks so.'  Print This Post

Wild Mountain in Minnesota has won bragging rights as the first ski area to open for the 2012-13 ski season in North America.

The small ski area, which has a 91m vertical and a top lift height of 339m, but operates four quad chairlifts, opened for snowsports on Sunday, October 7^th.

The area beat near year-round US ski area Timberline Lodge which closed in September and had planned to re-open on October 5^th, but postponed to October 12^th, as well as Loveland in Colorado, one of the world’s highest ski areas at 3871m, which has begun snowmaking but is yet to open.

 

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If this is an indication of the type of winter we will be expecting, stormy and and snowy clouds can’t be too far behind. Online visitation to Ski Rebel Magazine surged by 255% this September compared with September of 2011. Continue reading ‘September traffic surges by 255% over last year’

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Exceptional ski weather conditions and a spike in skier visits in more than twelve years  have lead to a number of ski areas to extend their season into October and early November. 

Most ski areas in Australia have closed but Thredbo, Perisher and Mt Buller have announced they’re staying open an extra week to October 7^th. Continue reading ‘New Zealand and Australian ski season extended’

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