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Despite a serious snowfall last weekend, many parts of the Alps are still suffering from the worst early seasons for coverage in more than a decade. Temperatures in to early December were the warmest ever recorded making snowmaking impossible and even putting glacier ski areas, usually a safe bet whatever the snow cover at lower elevations, out of action. Full Article
15th December 2006
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The glacier ski area above Les 2 Alpes will open for skiing beneath the full moon this winter. This makes for an ethereal snow sports experience – with a lot of added fun thrown in. Full Article
13th December 2006
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Travel writer Claire Walter just returned from a tour of the Alps and some of the biggest names in skiing. Her report: It's a good thing that Europeans don't have a late-November holiday to kick off the ski season. There has been no virtually no snow in the Alps. Above-freezing temperatures curtailed snowmaking efforts. And did I mention the rain? Full Article
11th December 2006
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Grindelwald, opposite the Eiger in the spectacular Swiss Jungfrau region has a range of top events lined up this winter. Full Article
4th December 2006
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It may be only two months to the next World Alpine Championships in Are, Sweden and after that our minds may be on Whistler 2010 for the next Olympics. Full Article
29th November 2006
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If you can't get enough of skiing Switzerland's largest lift linked ski area – the Four Valleys around Verbier - then your luck's in as its possible to ski there for 24 hours non-stop on the 16th and 17th of December. Full Article
22nd November 2006
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It's not yet quite 150 years since St Moritz claim's to have been the first holiday resort in the world to take winter sports guests (that was 1864). However it is 150 years since the resort's Kulm hotel, which was to become the pioneer of winter tourism, opened, and to mark this anniversary the resort is to open the Swiss Olympic House. Full Article
21st November 2006
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On the road connecting Meribel with Courchevel, Agnès and Robert Burdet have opened a new restaurant called Le Plantin, in the area known by the same name.
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15th November 2006
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The O'Neill Evolution event has now taken place on Bolgen, Jakobshorn above Davos, for eight years and is now regarded as a "must" in the European competition calendar of freestyle snowboard stars.
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7th November 2006
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Val Thorens will open a six kilometre (three-and-three-quarter-mile-long) lift-served toboggan run with a fall of 700 metres (2200 feet) this winter.
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7th November 2006
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Swiss ski company, Stöckli, is offering test days at Engelberg this month and next before the main ski season kicks off. The trial days on the Titlis Glacier are 24th to 26 November and the 1st - 3rd and 8th - 10th December 2006. Full Article
7th November 2006
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Young visitors to the lovely, but internationally little known Austrian resort of Kappl, get an especially warm welcome. Selected hotels and gasthauses in the village have joined up with Flaxi the mountain sprite to give under 12s a special greeting with a party bag when they and their family check in. Full Article
31st October 2006
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Kitzbuhel's Winterstart festival will run from 8th to 10th December and include open-air concerts, après-ski parties, ski tests, free ski classes, the Hahnenkamm Sprint Cup, night skiing and more. Full Article
31st October 2006
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Why not follow in the ski tracks of Russian President and keen skier Vladmir Putin and Princess Caroline of Monaco (they probably weren't together) and visit the world's highest gourmet restaurant, above St Anton.
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31st October 2006
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With 650 km (407 miles) of ski-runs and 14 ski resorts, the Franco-Swiss Portes du Soleil is considered one of the biggest ski areas in the world; it is certainly one of the most varied. Full Article
28th September 2006
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Clearly panicking at the increasing average age of skiers, resorts around the world are gradually either raising the age bar for when seniors qualify for discounted passes. Full Article
21st September 2006
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Les Menuires in the Belleville Valley of the French 3 Valleys, the world’s largest ski area, will offer guests its first ever four star hotel from this winter - a rare treat in the French Alps. Full Article
21st September 2006
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There's a new quad chairlift this winter at Igls, one of nine ski areas around Innsbruck, the Tyrolean capital in Austria. Full Article
21st September 2006
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The biggest spend on new lifts this season is happening at Cervinia, on the Italian side of the Matterhorn, linked to the world's highest lifts at Zermatt. Full Article
1st September 2006
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