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Courchevel Changes Its Name To... Courchevel
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2011Courchevel, France's number one resort, is changing its name. For the past 54 years the resorts, bar Le Praz and La Tania, that make up the Courchevel valley have been known by their altitude, but not for long. The decision to re-brand the four resorts was taken in order to move away from the altitu...
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North America Called... They Want Their Snow Back
Date Posted: 16 Dec 2011Christmas is approaching and the snow is falling, so much so that Tignes had to close the road into resort, from the damn until 2pm today for safety reasons, while they cleared the snow! Following a week that has seen around a metre of snowfall falling from the Three Valleys, to the Portes du Soleil...
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Europe's Winter Wonderland
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2011With fantastic conditions reported Europe is at last looking like a winter wonderland. France has has a superb week on the snow front, so we will concentrate on the larger ski areas. In The Three Valleys, Val Thorens has a metre base at the bottom, in Espace Killy, Val d'Isere is not far behind. Whi...
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Snow Arrives With More Style Than The Metro
Date Posted: 05 Dec 2011Contrary to this morning's headline news in the Metro, there was some great snow over the weekend, with the Alps returning to their beautiful, snow-covered selves. With more snowfall forecast in the next few days and with webcams telling a different, but more realistic story, we replied to the Metro...
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Snow Returns In Time For Christmas
Date Posted: 01 Dec 2011December 1st, time to open your advent calendar, break out of the pre-Christmas diet and have your first mince pie of the year. It's also time to look forward to some skiing, as the snow is returning to Europe just in time for the festive season. Val d'Isere may have lost the Criterium, the start of...
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Glad Bindings
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2011There are only 30 days until Christmas and we'll all be asking Santa to deliver perfect snow on our yearly migration to the mountains this year. After a bumper start to the month, followed by some ridiculously large dumps in Canada, the snow is coming back to the Alps next week. Though the snow gods...