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The world’s best snowboarders will converge on Saas-Fee....
The world’s best snowboarders will converge on Saas-Fee in late October for the opening events of the competitive season outdoors in the Northern Hemisphere.
The FIS Freestyle Ski European Cup and the FIS Snowboard European Cup will take place from 24 to 27 October. The FIS Snowboard World Cup follows a week later, from 31 October to 3 November.
This year the competitors will be joined by big names from the world of freeskiing.
With the Swiss franc running at record highs against other currencies....
With the Swiss franc running at record highs against other currencies, Swiss ski resorts are in many cases anticipating a difficult season. However resorts are taking steps to make costs less eye- watering for non Swiss nationals, and Verbier is one of the first to announce its strategy.
“In order to counter the effect of the strong franc, our visitors will enjoy a ski-lodging package with an up to 20% better exchange rate than the official daily rate.
After a month or so of rapidly thawing snow on the glaciers of the Alps...
After a month or so of rapidly thawing snow on the glaciers of the Alps, snow storms descended at the weekend bringing powder conditions.
Saas Fee which re-opened for snowsports two weeks ago had to cancel the The Saas-Fee Ride 11 summer Freeski competition they had planned.
Saas Fee will begin its long 2011-12 season on Saturday July 9th...
Saas Fee will begin its long 2011-12 season on Saturday July 9th when its glacier terrain up to 3,600m high opens for skiers and boarders. It will be open through to May 2012 with the rest of its ski area opening next Spring.
The resort offers 22km of varied glacial ski slopes with a major terrain park all of which attract various campers as well as the Swiss and international ski teams who spend their summer enjoying glacier training sessions.
The AllalThe British Freeski Camps 2011 are running...
The British Freeski Camps 2011 are running from the 9th July to 6th August in Saas Fee. The camps are open to all ages and standards and will be focused on making freestyle and freeride skiing more available to recreational skiers and ski instructors that want to learn tricks and push their skiing to the limit.
The camps are also home to the athletes of the British Freestyle Ski Team and will be working as a training base for FIS World Cup and Sochi 2014 Olympic training.
This summer many of Europe's top freeskiers...
This summer many of Europe's top freeskiers will be back to compete in the Allalin Snow Park on the Saas-Fee glacier in Switzerland at the Saas-Fee Ride 11 on 23rd July 2011 – two weeks after the resort re-opens for the start of its 10 month long season through to May 2012!
Since 2003 the Saas-Fee Ride summer freeski events have been seen across the globe due to the international broadcast of the 26 minute TV programmes that have surprised viewers of just how good summe
The summer ski season on Europe’s highest slopes...
The summer ski season on Europe’s highest slopes will begin above on both the Italian and Swiss slopes of the Plateau Rosà glacier in two weeks time.
Although the Swiss-side, accessed from Zermatt, is open year round, the slopes accessed from Cervinia on the Italian side, is open in Summer from late June to early September only.
23 km of slopes are open along with the Gravity Park on Plateau Rosà complete with half-pipe for snowboarders and
A massive 140 million Swiss Franc ($160/£100m) development...
A massive 140 million Swiss Franc ($160/£100m) development installing 18 new ski lifts between two famous Swiss resorts to create one of the country’s and the world’s biggest ski areas has been announced.
The plan to link Andermatt and Sedrun’s skiing will be carried forward by the Scandinavian ski resort developers SkiStar who currently run five of the top resorts in Norway and Sweden, including Are and Hemsedal.
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Nendaz, Switzerland, March 14, 2011 - New Zealand's Maria Kuzma
New Zealand’s Maria Kuzma was the top snowboarder at yesterday’s Nendaz Freeride, a four star Freeride World Qualifier and the sixth of eight stops on the women’s 2011 Freeride World Tour while her twin sister, Janina, also saw the podium placing second in women’s skiing. Both now qualify for the finals in Verbier.The event went down surprisingly well despite low snow conditions.
St Josephs, Switzerland, March 14, 2011 - Forget St Patrick's day
Forget St Patrick’s Day next week, St Joseph’s Day (Josefstag), two days later on March 19th, is bigger in Switzerland and is an official holiday day in some parts of the country.
Bettmeralp (www.bettmeralp.ch) is one of the ski resorts that celebrates this by offering a free day pass on the 19th to anyone called Joseph, or indeed in the interests of sex-equality, Josephine. To qualify you need to arrive at the ticke
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