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.
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DSUK teams up with the Skier & Snowboarder magazine
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 launches new ski and snowboard range in time for this season
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.
MD of Nevis Range, shortlisted for business leader of the year award
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.
Ski world cup racing squad members take action to save season after UK sport withdraws funding programme
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.
Ski and snowboard holidays by train – Travelski Express adds three new resorts to its list
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.
Ski and snowboard areas in Andorra unite under one pass covering more than 300km of piste
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.
Zermatt joins list of glaciers temporarily closed for ski and snowboard activities because of ‘unprecedented’ high temperatures
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.
The exciting story of Franz Klammer’s dramatic and historic 1976 Olympic gold medal winning run captured in a new movie
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.
London Ski & Snowboard Festival returns to Battersea Park in October
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.
Ski Sunday presenter Ed Leigh helps open ‘a tin full of wishes’ at snow centre
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.
The Lecht community mourns loss of one of its original founders
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.
Love & Piste staff head back to the slopes of Val d’Isère
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 London Ski & Snowboard Festival returns to Battersea Park in October 2022
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.
Brand new car is one of the buried treasures waiting to be dug up on the piste
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.
Dave ‘the Rocket’ Ryding unveils centenary memorial to first ever slalom race in Mürren before heading for home
After finishing his World Cup racing season in the French resort of Méribel last Sunday (20 march), British slalom skier Dave Ryding didn’t let the snow melt beneath his feet.
Dave inspects the Kandahar trophies with former club president Cleeves Palmer
He jumped in the car and sped through the Alps to the Bernese Oberland at the invitation of the Swiss resort of Mürren and its British ski racing club, the Kandahar, which counts Dave among its members.
VACANCY: SnowSkool General Manager
The Ski Company Ltd is looking for a BOAT (Boss Of All Things!) to manage all functions of one of its long-running brands, SnowSkool, which organises ski instructor courses, snowboard instructor courses, and internships.
Don’t miss the latest issue of the Skier & Snowboarder magazine
The SPRING 2022 issue of the Skier & Snowboarder magazine is now available.
Pick up a free printed copy at your local ski and snowboard store or slope (while stocks last).
Or you can read the online version by CLICKING HERE
Oxygene mourns the loss of Bertrand de Monvallier, one of its founders, who has passed away
Bertrand de Monvallier, one of the founders of Oxygene Ski & Snowboard School, passed away recently following a 10-month battle with illness.
A statement released by the company said: “The entire Oxygene family is devastated by his loss and for anyone that had ever met Bertrand, they will understand what it means to lose someone that was so inspirational and passionate about skiing, life and the business that he and his brothers have built over the past 30 years.”
Beijing 2022: Kenworthy bows out of competitive skiing with an 8th place in halfpipe final
Team GB’s freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy, who came eighth in the men’s halfpipe final, was competing at his third and final Olympics.
Gus Kenworthy in action during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Genting Snow Park. Photo by Sam Mellish / Team GB
Gus previously competed for the USA by qualifying through his American father, but he also has an English mother and was born in Essex which enabled him to switch to the GB team.