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| Avalanche Days 2009 | 14/10/2009 4:18 |
| The ANENA (National Association for the Study of Snow and Avalanches) is running its Avalanche Days this autumn. The days will be held on the 7th November in Briançon, 21st November in Toulouse and the 5 December in Nice. They are aimed at all winter sports enthusiasts : walkers, climbers, free-riders, ski tourers and ice climbers who want to extend their knowledge of winter conditions in the mountains. | |
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| Avalanche families long wait for closure | 05/10/2009 16:22 |
| In April 2005 two young snowboarders, Sam Harber and James Rourke, were killed by a massive avalanche in the French Alps. More than four years on and the fallout from that slide is still reverberating far beyond the sparkling glaciers of the Savoie and carries an important warning for other off-piste enthusiasts. | |
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| Henry?s Avalanche Talk tours UK in November | 29/09/2009 18:07 |
| Once again the Ski Club is teaming up with Henrys Avalanche Talk (HAT) and premier snowsports retailer Snow+Rock to run the ?UK Off Piste and Avalanche Awareness Tour 2009? | |
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| Ski search | 29/09/2009 6:28 |
| If you are fed up with wading through loads of useless search results from me2 wintersports websites then you need PisteHors.com ski search. Based on Google?s custom search engine we?ve included the best sites from the community to improve the signal to noise ratio. You can further refine the categories by clicking on the links in the search results. Let us know if you have any ideas for other sites or categories. http://pistehors.com/search/ | |
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| Dynafit Ski Team breaks sets speed record for ?Symphony? | 12/09/2009 14:18 |
| News from down-under. A Dynafit ski mountaineering team comprising Spain?s Javier Martin, Italian Lorenzo Holzknecht and Kiwi local Grant Guise have set a new speed record for the ?Symphony on Skis?, a 46.7 km long, 4000m vertical, east-west crossing of New Zealand?s Southern Alps last Saturday. Javi skiing on to the Franz Josef, Tasman sea in the distance | |
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| Ski resorts break records in 2009 | 26/07/2009 7:35 |
| With a return to a proper winter after two lean years fortunes have been mixed for winter tourism as British skiers, who make up 40% of guests in certain ski resorts, were hit hard by the credit crunch. The snow also brought avalanches to some areas which blocked roads and damaged infrastructure. Late season skiing was excellent | |
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| Meteo France forecaster slams amateur weather forecasts | 22/07/2009 11:54 |
| On the 7th July 2009 the rescue services in Chamonix ran 25 missions to recover climbing groups trapped by bad weather. For Yan Giezendanner, Meteo France forecaster in Chamonix, poor quality forecasts made by amateur websites are partly to blame. | |
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| La Grave threatened by plague of rats | 05/07/2009 12:45 |
| The canton of la Grave has been invaded by a plague of rats. They are no threat to the ski lift but the local farmers are asking for help as the rodents eat everything they find in their path. | |
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| Valfréjus installs new gondola and fast chair lift | 05/07/2009 11:50 |
| Valfréjus is installing a new gondola and fast chair lift for 2010. It may be ?La Crise? for the French or ?Credit Crunch? as we know it around the Globe and in developed world but the current financial difficulties seem not to have reached one small ski resort nestled deep in the Maurienne valley in the French Alps. | |
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| XP 444, supermodel gets make over | 03/07/2009 4:39 |
| Would you tell Kate Moss to get a face lift and go on a diet? Probably not but when there are younger and thinner models coming through the ranks a makeover might be tempting. For two years the carbon fibre XP 500 has been the supermodel of lightweight ski mountaineering boots but next season it faces competition from the fresh faced Sportiva Stratos, Dynafit Dy.N.A. and Scarpa F1 Carbon. | |
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