Hold onto your hats, everyone. The weather is about to get interesting in the Alps. Heavy snow is expected in places, along with a sharp drop in temperatures. But it’s not going to be a...
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Passo Tonale is one of Italy’s highest ski resorts, opening early and closing late, and it also offers year-round skiing on the Presena Glacier. There’s plenty of beginner and...
There’s no doubting the star of today’s snow report, snowfiends. It’s Whistler, Canada, which over the last seven days has been walloped by 120cm of snow on the upper slopes of its ski area (although...
Franz Klammer, arguably the greatest downhiller of all time, has become a patron of Ski 4 Cancer – the UK charity that provides alpine breaks for families affected by the disease. Ski 4 Cancer...
Flippin ‘eck, Snowfiends. There we were, dazzled by the epic early-season conditions in places like Lake Louise and Utah, and we almost missed the openings of Zinal in Switzerland, Montgenevre in...
What a great ski deal! Winter is almost here, and as you’ll have seen on our most recent snow report, resorts are opening up throughout the US Rockies…with oodles of snow, Whistler is opening...
Welcome, snowfiends, to the first of this season’s Thursday snow reports. We’re switching today to our twice-weekly service, because – suddenly – the ski season is bursting into life...
The central Planai ski area is reached by a gondola that rises from the edge of Schladming. Alternatively, you can drive up an all-weather road to a car park just below the mid-station. A network of...
Schladming centre has a good choice of three- and four-star hotels, but the quiet surrounding villages of Haus, Pichl, Rohrmoos, and Ramsau provide the better budget choices. The four-stars in...
Schladming has ‘the normal lively bars, but there’s not enough going on for a young group where apres comes first,’ commented a reporter, and ‘the nightlife was more than adequate for a geriatric...
