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This season saw the British Snow Tour being updated to be able to include all UK freeski and snowboard events in a similar concept to the World Snowboard and Association of Freeskiing Professionals tours. Events are awarded a star ranking based on the environment and number of competitors, with the ..More...
Featuring... well featuring just about everybody on the team and a cracking backing track too.
Valle Nevado in Chile (vallenevado.com) turns 25 this winter and is aiming to take some major steps in its master plan towards its transformation into the first "mountain village" of the region – which it aims to complete by 2022.
When the ski season starts in a few weeks’ time skiers and ....More...
Lift builders Doppelmayr will have completed 35 new lifts for the Sochi Olympics by October the Austrian-based company reports.
The company built 16 lifts for three resorts in the area between 2004 and 2010 but will have completed another 19 lifts this autumn. Most of the lifts are funitels and ..More...
The first Adaptive Snowboard Level 1 Instructor course of the year will be held at Tamworth SnowDome starting on 16th June.
The course focuses on the learning progression including both knowledge and awareness of disabilities. Students are trained and assessed on an ongoing basis to develop ....More...
Two brand new gondolas open this weekend at the Dachstein Glacier in Austria after a month’s closure. The centre is due to re-open with a new Superpark Dachstein for summer skiing and boarding this weekend.
The terrain park has been closed since April 15th while crews worked around the clock to ..More...
There has been heavy snow in the Alps and Dolomites in the past few 48 hours but not many ski areas are open and few are publishing snowfall statistics until next season.
In Switzerland Engelberg reports 15cm of new snow, it is open until the 26th and Zermatt is also open. It’s reported to be -....More...
CairnGorm are are still offering good snowsports in the top bowls and on the Cas. The Ptarmigan Terrain park is also still in great condition. Uplift is the Funicular, Ciste T-Bar, Ptarmigan T-Bar and Polar Express.
After Sunday 19 May, snowsports will only be available at the weekends.
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Coming this summer will be a series of new English ski and snowboard events. Kicking off with Slopestyle at the Chill Factore on 8th June. These events will show the best of English snowsports talent and create a positive environment for skiers and snowboarders to develop.
Four events will take .. More...
Chill Factore boasts the UK's longest indoor real slope at an impressive 180 metres long. Take advantage of our amazing Lift Pass Offers and enjoy racing down the slope and having some exhilarating experiences. Minimum Main Slope Standard applies click here for more information.
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Despite the fact that the tows aren't running there have been reports trickling back down the hill all week from those with the energy to hike up that conditions are still pretty good on the upper mountain.
Main Basin on Thursday evening
The access chair will be running all weekend and from .. More...
For one day only, take on friends and family in this open race session.
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Here are the parks for this Thursday and Friday.
If you book online you can save 20% and there was talk of adding an extra 10% if you're a SCUK Member, but not sure whether that was ever sorted out. You could always ask on arrival.
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Here is the park plan for this week's freestyle nights at Snozone Milton Keynes.
On the right hand slope starting at the top there will be a step down box setup a raised gasser and square bar down rail. Moving down the slope to the big flat box and shotgun down rail. Then there will be a kicker .... More...
The dates for the four 2013 Big Bang Show events have just been released.
Saturday 28th September: TAMWORTH
Saturday 5th October: BRAEHEAD
Saturday 12th October: CASTLEFORD
Saturday 19th October: MILTON KEYNES
The show is a great kick start to the season.
The Big Bang website will be .... More...
If you swap your snowboard or ski boots for football boots this autumn you could win a holiday for your whole team!
Disability Snowsports UK are staging the five-a-side annual football tournament at Goals in Wembley, London, on 8 October 2013 to raise money for the charity which helps to ....More...
One of the fruits of the on-going renovation and redevelopment work at the top station of the Aiguille du Midi cable car is set to be revealed this summer and will be accessible to visitors next winter.
As part of the redevelopment, a new 2.5m glass balcony will be an added attraction for those .. More...
The second substantial snowfalls in a fortnight at Tiffindell ski area in South Africa has led the centre to open its slopes for snowsports this week, three years after the centre last operated. Tiffindell, now under new ownership, has been the first southern hemisphere ski area to open most ....More...
Ski Dubai has become an iconic symbol of the United Arab Emirates but a new innovation may be around the corner in the UAE.
Another of the five emirates making up the UAE, Ras Al Khaimah, is planning an outdoor real snow ski area.
The complex, sited in a mountainous area bordering Oman’s .... More...
CairnGorm are still offering good spring skiing and snowboarding on all open runs which are the White Lady, Traverse, 105, Cas, Top zig zags, Gun Barrel, Ciste Bowl, Ptarmigan Bowl and Ptarmigan Terrain park. Uplift is the Funicular, M1 Poma, Ciste T-Bar, Ptarmigan T-Bar and Polar Express. The ....More...
Sorry about last weekend, the weather just didn't want to play. Saturday, Sunday and Monday all turned out too windy to run the access chair and it rained almost constantly for the whole weekend.
Looking up the Spring run this morning
There are still large patches on the hill for tourers or .. More...
BASI will be holding this advanced freestyle snowboard coaching course in Hintertux 9-14th June. This leads to a freestyle coaching qualification.
Details on the course here and there are currently two places remaining. BASI have indicated a course is a possibility if there is sufficient demand.
Great Britain's rapidly rising freestyle snowsports stars received a significant boost to the team's performance and grassroots programme with a new giant freestyle airbag providing year-round practice in the absence of snow and mountains.
Engineered to create the safest and most realistic .... More...
Entry form and additional information available here: http://bit.ly/17sGj7P Payment link: http://bit.ly/YLpFND
They've only just told about this and pre-registration closes today!
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Here's the park for the SCUK Gathering next Tuesday at Snozone Castleford.
This is a relaxed freestyle evening, which is open to anybody. The slope put on some food and drink discounts on the night, so well worth turning up for this social. If you don't use it... we lose it.
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The new edition of Swiss based consultant Laurent Vanat’s annual International Report on Mountain Tourism, contains several non-mountainous destinations for the first time.
“This made it necessary to reconsider the name of the report, so it is now called the ‘International Report on Snow & ....More...
A thick dusting of new snow on the mountain tops around Queenstown over the past 24 hours is a timely reminder of the countdown to the southern hemisphere’s 2013 winter season.
A cold snap over the weekend delivered 4cm of ‘white gold’ to The Remarkables ski area, greeting new heads of ....More...
BASI and Snowsport Scotland have announced a new joint initiative to help provide improved facilities in Scotland for freeskiing and snowboarding – at the indoor Snow Factor real snow centre at Glasgow, on dry slopes and out on the slopes at Scottish ski areas.
As part of the initiative, BASI ....More...
Cairngorm ski area in Scotland is now among less than 30 ski areas open worldwide as more resorts closed for the season after the weekend, including the only other Scottish area still open, Glencoe.
“There’s good snow cover from mid-mountain up,” said a statement from the centre on Monday, which ..More...
Four years after the ski lifts and buildings at Pakistan’s only commercial ski area, located in the country’s Swat Valley, was destroyed by The Taliban, a new chairlift is to be built at the Pakistan Air Force’s existing ski area at Naltar by the Ski Federation of Pakistan with the support of the ....More... |
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