Innsbruck to London Olympic sponsored cycle for Disability Snowsport UK

The Tirol cycle team announced that it will cycle from Innsbruck to London in July to raise money for Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK).

Having hosted the first Youth Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck earlier this year, as FamilySkiNews.com reported here, … Read More

Katie Summerhayes carries Olympic torch

Britain’s Ski Freestyle Champion, 16-year-old Katie Summerhayes carried the Olympic torch through her home town Sheffield today.   She is one of Britain’s medal hopefuls – not for London 2012 but for the X Games and for next Winter Olympics in Sochi … Read More

Chemmy Alcott blogs about Olympic hopefuls

Chemmy Alcott has been blogging this week in London’s Metro newspaper. 

She has been contemplating the trials and tribulations of aspiring Olympians hoping to get picked for those last elusive life-changing places in various teams to compete in front of … Read More

Buy your own mountain

Here’s the perfect gift idea for the skier who has everything….. Echo Mountain ski area in the USA is up for sale by auction in early August!

The small resort, straddling Squaw Pass, just 35 miles from downtown Denver, was purchased … Read More

New cable car for London

You don’t have to be in the mountains to travel by cable car. On 28 June, a new cable car service will open in the East End of London. 

The ‘Emirates Air Line’ will be the first urban cable car … Read More

Las Lenas voted Best Ski Resort in Southern Hemisphere

The Argentinian resort  of Las Leñas has once again been voted “Best Ski Resort in the Southern Hemisphere” by over 14,000 ski fans and readers of the leading Brazilian tourism magazine Viagem. 

The resort is currently gearing up for a … Read More

French glacier skiing starts this weekend

Les 2 Alpes – the largest skiable glacier in Europe – opens this weekend for its summer glacier season.  

Conditions look especially promising: the recent cold temperatures we’ve all been suffering have been reflected in the French Alps, together with … Read More

Skiing in Iceland

Let’s face it, Iceland is not the first destination to spring to most people’s minds for skiing.  However, according to the Icelandreview.com, over 160,000 people skied there last winter. 

Nearly 60,000 skied at the main resort of Hlíðarfjall in Akureyri, with … Read More

Ski on Father’s Day

Thanks to a winter of monumental snowfall, the Canadian resort of Mount Washington in British Columbia is opening this weekend – especially for Father’s Day – for a remarkable third year in a row.   

Only one lift (the Whiskey … Read More

Big Spring Clean

The Ski Club of Great Britain is looking for volunteers to join the 5th annual Big Spring Clean at three different Scottish ski resorts – Glenshee, Nevis Range and Cairngorm – this Saturday, 16th June from 10am until 4pm.

It’s … Read More