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Snow Worries This January
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2012After an epic Christmas and New Year in terms of snow, Mother Nature, and Andrea, her snow-filled storm, are showing no signs of letting up. So much snow has fallen this week that Meribel didn't open above 2000m today, the top of the Marmottes lift in Alpe d'Huez was pretty much buried, the road to ...
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Chemmy & Chesney Dancing on Ice
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2012Chemmy Alcott, Britain's skiing sensation has announced that she will appear on this year's series of Dancing on Ice as she works toward getting back on the slopes after a horrible accident in December 2010. The skier will participate in the programme, due to begin on Sunday 8th January, alongside t...
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New Year... New Snow
Date Posted: 03 Jan 2012The New Year has arrived and with it the first snow news of 2012, and unlike the economy, the grey weather and home and the cost of train tickets, the news is good... very good. The next five days will see around 40cm of snow hitting many parts of Austria, Switzerland and France. Whistler, is once a...
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Epic skiing in Europe — Snow, snow, and even more snow!
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2011After an amazing past few weeks of snowfall, the good news is that there seems to be no sign of the powder gods letting up! Val D'isere & Tignes are due 18cm of snow today, with 35cm forecast for the next 5 days. This is in addition to a base depth which is already at the 2 metre mark on the upp...
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Walking In A Winter Wonderland
Date Posted: 22 Dec 2011Sleigh bells ringing, are you listening, In the lane, snow is glistening, A beautiful sight, We're happy tonight, Walking In A Winter Wonderland. Christmas is around the corner, and the snow is still falling from Alpe d'Huez to Zermatt. The Alps are set for a sunny day, filled with blues skies and C...
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I'm Skiing Of A White Christmas
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2011It's Christmas week, the heavens are filling resorts with snow and the mountains are truly back to their stunning, snow-filled best. If two weeks of pretty much non-stop snow, with more arriving in the next three days isn't good enough news, then the sunshine forecast for Christmas day surely is. Th...