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| Visits to US ski resorts up 11% on 2011/12 season |
The National Ski Areas Association announced last week that resorts across the US had registered 56.6 million visits by skiers and snowboarders in the 2012/13 season. While this is the largest increase in a 1-year period seen in 30 years, the total number of visitors was still 1 million down on the 10-year average. The big increase was mainly down to the poor numbers of visitors in 2011/12 ... :: Read more
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| Your never too old to ski! |
Elsa Bailey celebrated her 100th birthday in style last weekend - on the slopes. She's been skiing for 75 years, and decided she'd have one last ski on her 100th birthday and then hang up her skis ... :: Read more
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| Cheapest skiing at Thredbo in Australia for 4 years |
The snow's already falling on the slopes in Australia and, to make things even better, Thredbo has announced the cheapest day-ticket price in 4 years. The resort is releasing an A$99 ticket, the only major Australian resort with a day ticket under A$100 ... :: Read more
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| Fatal fall on Aiguille du Midi |
A UK citizen has died after falling in the Mont Blanc area yesterday evening The man, who has not been named, was on a ridge near Aiguille du Midi when he fell. ... :: Read more
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| British transfer coach on fire at alpe d'Huez |
Details are sketchy but a British transfer coach is on fire with trapped passengers on the descent from Alpe d'Huez at the moment. It appears the brakes gave out on the descent and the coach hit a cliff and burst into flames.
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| Sochi Winter Olympics most expensive games ever? |
Estimates for the cost of the Sochi Olympics have reached almost $50 billion, making it the most expensive Olympic games ever, winter or summer. In contrast, the 2012 Summer Olympics in London cost about $14.3 billion ... :: Read more
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| Tax cut on ski lifts could give Scottish resorts a break |
VAT was cut from the standard 20% to 5% on small cable-suspended transport systems on April 1st. This is good news for the winter sport industry in Scotland, according to Chief Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander; the VAT cut applies to lifts typically used to take skiers to the top of mountains. It could cushion ski operators from losses incurred during poor seasons ... :: Read more
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| Avalanche Closes Road in Peak District |
Photo by rogerthecat on SingleTrackWorldAn avalanche has closed Winnats Pass in the Peak District today. Unusual at any time but unheard of in late March! ... :: Read more
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| First sponsored Snow-Camp student gets BASI level 1 qualification |
Nineteen-year-old Aaron Minto has been issued with certification to work on dry and indoor snow slopes with novice and early intermediate skiers, which makes him the first Snow-Camp student to become a fully qualified BASI Level 1 Ski Instructor ... :: Read more
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| Streaker at ski jump World Cup finals |
A very hardy streaker added excitement to the the ski jumping World Cup finals in Planica (Slovenia) at the weekend. And went flying ... :: Read more
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| Snow leopard endangered by planned ski resort in Kasakhstan |
The President of Kazakhstan has been sent a petition with 7,000 signatures protesting plans to build a ski resort in the prime habitat of the endangered snow leopard. There are only are only around 6,000 snow leopards left in the wild worldwide ... :: Read more
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| Sochi organisers have stored snow for 2014 Olympics |
The organisers of the 2014 winter Olympics next years, worried about a lack of snow, have stored 450,000 cubic meters of snow in the nearby Caucasus Mountains. They have become anxious about a possible lack of snow next February because of the unseasonably warm temperatures this winter in Sochi ... :: Read more
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| GB's James Woods gets slopestyle Crystal globe |
James Wood has won the men's Crystal globe in the FIS slopestyle World Cup finals ... :: Read more
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| Vonn wins downhill title despite injury |
Thanks to the elements, Lindsey Vonn has won the women's World Cup downhill for a record 6th year in a row, even after being sidelined with a serious knee injury.. The final downhill race of the season was abandoned this week because of bad fog, which meant Vonn beat Slovenia's Tina Maze by a single point ... :: Read more
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| Work begins on Copenhagen waste-to-energy plant and urban ski resort in one |
The project by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, which combines a ski slope and a waste-to energy plant, has finally got off the ground. After a significant delay, work began this month in the industrial outskirts of Copenhagen. The plant will have a 333,700-square-foot artificial ski slope on the roof ... :: Read more
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| Dave Ryding wins the Europa Cup Slalom Series |
As reported over on Racer-ready, Dave Ryding has become the fist British racer to win the Europa Cup Slalom Series ... :: Read more
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| James Woods wins slopestyle silver at ski World Championships |
BBC News reports
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| James Woods has won Great Britain's first freestyle skiing medal at a World Championships in 20 years after winning slopestyle silver in Norway. |
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| Chemmy's 2013 season is over |
Chemmy has taken the tough decision to write off the 2013 season by going back to hospital to have the metalwork removed from the leg she broke in a crash - but she hopes to be skiing again by the end of the northern hemisphere summer
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Good riddance Titanium rod and 10 screws!
In August in New Zealand I will ski pain free
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| Vonn says conditions weren't safe when she injured her knee |
Lindsey Vonn has said she hopes future race juries at major championships will be more mindful of athletes’ safety than the one that officiated over the race she crashed in. She has said of the conditions in the women’s super-G on February 5 at the world alpine championships in Schladming, Austria: “ ... :: Read more
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| Lecht chairlift derails |
A chairlift has derailed at the Lecht Ski Centre. 6 people are believed to have been hurt. 36 were rescued ... :: Read more
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In fact no fewer than 23 snowHeads are destined to get lucky this time around ... :: Read more
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We run a few bashes in the mountains each season for snowHeads forum members.
The 2012-13 Season Bashes are ... :: Read more
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Click for a better view At last, we can all be sticky again (in the best possible taste, of course!)
The new stickers are here and they're excellent ... :: Read more
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They tried to make me go to rehab ... :: Read more
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