Ski hosting in La Rosière

This season, La Rosière is offering ski hosting to their guests.  Many resorts in North America already offer free guided tours of their slopes, but this is the first resort in France to offer such a service.

La Rosière will … Read More

Skiing in Neuss

One of our reporters, Justin Leese, checked out the indoor ski slope in Neuss, a suburb of Dusseldorf this evening.

The Jever Ski Hall Neuss was Germany’s first indoor ski hall when it was built in 2001.  The slopes are … Read More

Val Thorens voted world’s best ski resort

Val Thorens won the prize for ‘best overall ski resort in the world’ this weekend at the inaugural World Ski Awards, which took place in Kitzbühel.

The French resort has already won the award for the ‘Most Improved European Resort’ in … Read More

Father Christmas comes early to Alta Badia

The magical build-up to Christmas is extra-special in the Italian resort of Alta Badia, the lively heart of the South Tyolean Dolomites.

The Sixth of December is the date every child remembers…

A very special visitor rides in on his … Read More

Verbier opens this weekend

Verbier will be the first resort in Suisse-Romande (French-speaking Switzerland) to open… but just for weekends for now.

Daily opening is due to start later this month, snow permitting.

In recent days the resort has received 50-60cm of fresh white … Read More

Skiing by the sea in Slovenia

This weekend, families in Slovenia were able to ski beside the seaside.

The picturesque resort town of Portoroz, on the Adriatic Ocean, staged a unique snow event called the ‘White Circus by the Sea’.

the ‘White Circus’ – an artificial ski slope – was … Read More

First snowfall for Sochi

The first snow has fallen in the Sochi mountain range, scene of the next Winter Olympics in February 2014.

The slopes in the Extreme Park at Kasnaya Polyana/Rosa Khutor sites are nearly complete – 130,000 square metres of sculpted terrain … Read More

Fresh powder for the Kaunertal Opening

If this new YouTube clip from the Tirol doesn’t get you in the mood for skiing this winter, we don’t know what will!

It was filmed at the weekend at the opening of the Kaunertal Glacier, following half a … Read More

Where is Beitostølen?

Good question!

The tiny ski resort of Beitostølen is actually a very well-kept secret.

This small Norwegian village resort is little-known in the UK, but that looks set to change as Crystal Ski has added it to their new brochure … Read More

The ski season has begun… in Arapahoe Basin!

It’s official… Colorado’s 2013/14 ski season is underway.  This weekend, on 13 October, Arapahoe Basin became the first resort in North America to open.

Actually… technically speaking, it was the second resort!

Earlier in the month, Crystal Mountain in Washington … Read More