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50cm Of Fresh Snow at Tux, Parks Opens

The Hintertux glacier in Austria has received 50cm of fresh snow, providing a huge boost to snow levels on the slopes, which are already open for winter 2008-9.
(06.10) Read more

Zermatt Begins Snowmaking In Above Freezing Conditions

Zermatt has begun operation of a remarkable new snowmaking machine which can make snow at up to +40 degrees Celcius.
(03.10) Read more

Tignes Opens 1400m Vertical This Saturday

Tignes will open for the 2008-9 season this Saturday, September 27th. The resort's Grande Motte Glacier will be open with skiing on a 1,400m vertical down to Val Claret - that's a bigger vertical than most resorts have open in mid-winter and believed to be the biggest September skiable vertical available anywhere.
(10.10) Read more

Val Senales Will Reopen Terrain Park On October 25th

Val Senales has announced that it will reopen its Gentlemen's Terrain Park on October 25th, a week after its official snowboard seasonal weekend opening on October 18th and 19th.
(24.09) Read more

Pitztal Opens for Winter 2008 - 2009

The Pitztal ski area in Austria has opened for winter 2008 - 9.
(18.09) Read more

20cm of Fresh Snow in Tignes

Tignes. The only ski resort in France to have opened already for the 2008-9 season, has reported 20cm (eight inches) of fresh snow has fallen over the past few days.
(10.10) Read more

2008-9 Season Starts At Dachstein This Weekend

The Dachstein Glacier re-opens for winter 2008-9 this Saturday, September 20th after a month's closure for annual maintenance.
(10.10) Read more

Stubai Opening For 2008-9 on 27th September

Austria's Stubai glacier will open for winter 2008-9 on Saturday, 27th September.
(10.10) Read more

Saas Fee Ski And Snowboard Tests Start 4th October

Saas Fee will stage its popular ski and snowboard tests on its glacier again this autumn. During two months, from 4th October until 30th November, you can test the new season's skis or snowboards in the Allalin snow sports area. There will be a choice of equipment from 14 different ski and snowboard manufacturers.
(10.10) Read more

Les 2 Alpes Ski And Board Season Openings Announced For October

Les 2 Alpes will stage its first Mondial Du Freeski festival on 25th and 26th October followed by the 19th Mondial Du Snowboard from October 31st to 2nd November on its glacier.
(01.09) Read more

Les Diablerets Announce Mid-October Opening

Glacier 3000 above Les Diablerets and close to Gstaad has announced it will re-open for downhill skiing and boarding in mid-October, subject to snow conditions.
(25.08) Read more

Fresh Snow On Molltal Glacier

The Molltal glacier has reported 10cm (four inches) of fresh snow over the weekend as is currently reporting conditions as "very good."
(18.09) Read more

Sölden Hosts Northern Hemisphere World Cup Opener in October

The FIS World Cup in Europe kicks off in October on Solden's Rettenbach glacier. The ladies giant slalom race will be staged on Saturday the 25th, with the men's on Sunday the 26th. The first run will take place at 9:45am each day with the second at 12:45.
(25.08) Read more

New Gear Testing On Glacier As Tignes Reopens In September

Edge 2 Edge, a ski and board rental and purchase company, has teamed up with Mountainsun Ltd who run Chalet Les Melezes in Tignes, France to provide Ski and Board Camps from 26th September when the Tignes ski area re-opens after a four week closure, until 14th December.
(10.10) Read more

Fresh Snow At Tux

The Tux glacier in Austria has recorded fresh snowfall in the past week, topping up snow depths on the glacier to 105cm.
(18.09) Read more

$20,000 US Prize Money For Pleasure Jam On Dachstein Glacier in November

The Horsefeathers Pleasure Jam will be staged again at the Atomic Superpark on the Dachstein Glacier this autumn. The unique lifestyle-event from 7th to 9th November, being staged for the sixth year, will officially mark the start of the 2008-9 winter.
(18.09) Read more

Hemsedal Announces 2008-9 Season Improvements

Hemsedal had a fantastic 2007-8 snow season with accumulated snowfalls of approximately eight metres, and is now looking ahead to the coming winter which is scheduled to begin on 14th November.
(20.08) Read more

Summer Ski Season at Val d'Isere Ends Early

Warm temperatures in Val d'Isere have led the lift company to end the summer ski season a few weeks earlier than scheduled.
(20.08) Read more

Last Chance To Ski France in August Before 08-09 Season

France's three remaining summer ski centres are in to their last month of operation in August prior to closing for three months before opening for Winter 2008-9 in November.
(11.08) Read more

Summer Ski Special Deals From Zermatt

Zermatt is one of the few resorts that are still open for snow sports 365 days a year with a lift-served vertical on the Matterhorn Glacier Paradise that equals anything offered by the hundred or so ski areas in the southern hemisphere.
(11.08) Read more