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The Skier & Snowboarder magazine’s regular look at the opportunities offered by Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK) continues with news of how we can all help raise funds to double the number of ski and snowboard lessons they organise for disabled children and adults
If you are looking for ideas for Christmas presents this year here are some suggestions which are ideal for people who love skiing and snowboarding. There’s everything from new phones with the latest camera technology, inspirational books, or simple unique Christmas themed merchandise
A new eco-friendly ‘pay-as-you-go’ lift pass that the manufacturers claim will save skiers and snowboarders money, time and hassle, has been endorsed by former British ski racer and Olympian Chemmy Alcott (on the right of this photo).
There is still time for wintersports enthusiasts to book a ticket to the UK Premiere of ‘Anywhere From Here’, the latest ski movie from Matchstick Productions. It is being screened in conjunction with Holmlands at the luxurious Mayfair Hotel in Central London on Thursday 27 October 2022.
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Raccoon Media Group, the company behind The National Snow Show Birmingham, has announced that it is launching National Snow Week and The London Snow Show in partnership with Evening Standard Live in 2023.
The opportunities offered by Disability Snowsport UK (DSUK) will now be a regular feature on the Skier & Snowboarder magazine website.
CEO Virginia Anderson (pictured here) provides an introduction into the charity organisation’s activities and how DSUK can enhance the lives of skiers and snowboarders who want to get on the piste
OGIO, the premium active lifestyle company, has released a new range of ski and snowboard products in a distinctive seasonal-inspired pattern design for winter sport fanatics this season. The Snowflake-patterned range, a new blue and white colour combination, includes four products.
Chris O’Brien, MD of Nevis Range
Chris O’Brien, the MD of the Nevis Range Mountain Experience in Scotland has been shortlisted for the Business Leader of the Year at the 2022 Highland Business Awards.
Chris’s role includes overseeing all business operations from large partnership opportunities with global brands to day-to-day customer-oriented matters. He was previously Destination Manager for The Outdoor Capital of the UK where he helped increase the reputation of Fort William and Lochaber as a highland tourism hotspot.
British skiers Dave Ryding, Charlie Guest, Charlie Raposo, Billy Major and Laurie Taylor jointly launched a Crowdfunding Campaign on 14 August in an effort to keep their dreams of success alive following a decision by UK sport to withdraw funding for Alpine, Cross-Country and Para Nordic athletes as the organisation deem the three disciplines to not be investible for World Class Programme support.
Travelski Express has added more packages to its programme and now includes the popular resorts of Val Thorens, Courchevel and La Rosiere.
Val Thorens
Skiers and snowboarders can choose between a range of accommodation in the three resorts with deals starting at £646 pp for a week in La Rosière – this price includes return direct Eurostar train travel, accommodation, local area lift pass and transfers to/from accommodation.
All the ski areas in Andorra will be available on one lift pass this winter offering skiers and snowboarders more than 300km (190 miles) of slopes.
The Grandvalira pass is a culmination of expansion and amalgamation of all of Andorra’s ski areas which are sandwiched between France and Spain in the Pyrenees.
The Swiss resort of Zermatt has temporarily suspended year-round skiing and snowboarding on its glacier due to high temperatures in the Alps during Spring and Summer.
The slopes have been open daily for many years now, except for a break of about three months at the start of the worldwide pandemic in spring 2020.
by Skier & Snowboarder editor Frank ‘Scoop’ Baldwin
Back in November 2009, I was invited to interview Austrian ski legend Franz Klammer in front of a large audience during a weekend organised by Inghams in Warwickshire to celebrate the company’s 75th anniversary.
The London Ski & Snowboard Festival is making a return to Battersea Park from 27 – 30 October, and Smart Group, the new organisers, claim it is going to be bigger and better than ever.
The four-day festival will have a host of ski and snowboard related exhibitors as well as an entertainment programme which includes Team GB athletes, après ski, performances from professional ski and snowboard athletes on a 140ft ski jump, a practice slope, and a torchlit toboggan race.
A snow-sports fan was given the surprise of life when his homecare provider, Right at Home UK, teamed up with Ski Sunday presenter and Olympic commentator Ed Leigh, to arrange a visit from the former-professional snowboarder, at a specially adapted skiing session.
James McIntosh pictured after receiving his MBE in 2017
James McIntosh, a co-founder of The Lecht ski centre in Scotland, died on 15 March at the age of 71.
James, who was better known as ‘Tosh’, helped establish The Lecht in 1977 with three friends and later became the ski area’s operations director.
Staff from the Love & Piste store in East Leake headed out on to the slopes of Val d’Isère recently to try out some of the current clothing and accessories available from the ski and snowboard specialist outlet.
The new organisers of the The London Ski & Snowboard Festival are inviting visitors to escape to the mountains in the heart of the capital this October (27th – 30th).
Smart Group, a hospitality and creative event specialist, is promising the four-day festival will bring together resorts, fashion, the latest equipment and technology, Team GB athletes, and entertainment for winter sports fans and families of all ages and experience levels.
A new BMW X1 sDrive 18d car is the top prize in a treasure hunt being held in Obertauern, Salzburgerland, on 23 April (2022).
Treasure chests containing the keys to a new BMW and other prizes will be buried in the snow
The Gamsleiten Kriterium attracts more than 1,000 skiers and snowboarders who race down the Gamsleiten 2 piste to a specially marked out area where the keys to the new car are buried in the snow along with more than 30 other treasure chests containing free holidays and other prizes.