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More Snowmaking For Hemsedal (18-Jul-11)

Snowmaking facilities at Hemsedal, Norway’s leading ski centre...

Snowmaking facilities at Hemsedal, Norway’s leading ski centre, are set to be expanded again this winter.

By the beginning of the 2011/2012 season, two more of the resort’s slopes will have snow guns, and slopes with artificial snow as a base will increases by 17% to just over 21 km.

The slopes are Veslebreidalen (slope 16) from the top of Tinden, and Holdeskarløypa (slope 32) will get snow guns this season.


World Snowboarding Championships To Be Staged For First Time Since 1999 (04-Jul-11)

The TTR and WSF World Snowboarding Championships

The TTR and WSF World Snowboarding Championships will be staged in Oslo next winter – it’s the first time for 13 years that there’s been a World Championships (the last ones were in 1999) and it will be the first championship for slopestyle ever.

“That the international snowboard community has agreed upon assigning World Championships 2012 to Oslo, is a great vote of confidence, both to the Norwegian snowboard community, to Oslo as a host city and to t


Ski The Arctic Circle This May (27-Feb-11)

For a wholly different holiday Kaluma have teamed up....

For a wholly different holiday Kaluma have teamed up with Mountain Guide, Graham Austick, and his team, to offer the opportunity to ski on the fantastic mountains of the Lyngen Alps, in the Arctic Circle in Norway right through until May.
Extreme Speed Riding In Voss (27-Feb-11)

The Norwegian coastal ski resort of Voss has seen some of the best snowfall in Europe...

The Norwegian coastal ski resort of Voss has seen some of the best snowfall in Europe this winter and this month the town stages its fifth Extreme Sports Week which will make the most of all that snow.

This year’s contest from March 10 to 13 will be particularly focussed on the relatively new sport of speed riding – descending a ski slope with a small parasail attached to your back.

The biggest star of the sport, French master Francois Bon, will be


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