tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88393042024-03-07T10:03:29.873+01:00SnowNewsNews from the world of skiing and snowboardingdavidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.comBlogger147125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1143200621470891842006-03-24T12:40:00.000+01:002006-03-24T12:43:41.483+01:00World’s Highest Ski Resort in MeltdownThe Bolvian glacier of Chacaltaya above La Paz and home to the world’s highest ski station at 5 300 meters altitude (17,000 feet) is in danger of vanishing within five years according to scientists. The cause, a warming climate. Chacaltaya is the only ski station in Bolivia. Samuel Mendoza of the Bolivian Andes Ski Club has said it is the worst year they have known and that the club would like todavidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1141584564710787232006-03-05T19:45:00.000+01:002006-03-05T19:49:24.723+01:00British Woman Raped on Snow TrainAs thousands of tourists remain trapped in the Alps after the return of winter it emerge that a British tourist heading off on a ski holiday was raped on the "snow train" from Paris to Bourg St Maurice as it travelled to the slopes on Friday night.Around 500 people were on the train which had been chartered by a British tour operator. Scene of crime officers from Chambéry have taken forensic davidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1141395548589801852006-03-03T14:51:00.000+01:002006-03-03T15:19:08.650+01:00La Plagne in debt 14 years after OlympicsThe Savoyard village of de Macôt la Plagne, which hosted the four man bobsleigh event in the 1992 Albertville winter Olympics is sitll in debt to the tune of 12 million Euros 14 years after the games. The money is owned to banks in Luxembourg who are showing little Olympic spirit to the tiny community of 1750 inhabitants.The debt follows a long court battle that was finally settled on the 28th ofdavidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1140715019353194412006-02-23T18:13:00.000+01:002006-02-23T18:16:59.353+01:00Ten Killed in French AvalanchesTen people have been killed over the last couple of days in French Avalanches. The majority of the accidents happened in the Southern Alps with three deaths of teenagers riding outside of marked runs in the tiny resort of Pra-Loup.More Information: French Avalanche DeathsThe accidents including a British Man at Puy Saint-Vincent who was skiing with his family and another Brit ski touring alone indavidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1135081865742709822005-12-20T13:29:00.000+01:002005-12-20T13:31:05.756+01:00Salomon Announces Nearly 400 Job CutsSalomon, the French sports good manufacturer, announced today that it plans to cut 378 jobs across its two factories in the Haute-Savoie. Although a lot of manufacturing has already been outsourced to far east, especially China the company still employs 1500 staff on two sites at Rumilly and at Metz-Tessy close to Annecy.The job cuts will effect 101 office and executive staff with the rest comingdavidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1132741448553858322005-11-23T11:23:00.000+01:002005-11-23T11:24:08.566+01:00Critérium de la première Neige Celebrates 50th BirthdaySnow cover permitting Critérium de la première Neige at Val d'Isère will be celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. The event started small, just a small article on an inside page of the local paper The Dauphiné Libéré. The brains behind the event were two Alsatians who had moved to the Savoie: Charled Diebold and Louis Erny. Debold was a force behind the development of winter sports in davidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1132180903515631312005-11-16T23:35:00.000+01:002005-11-16T23:41:43.526+01:00Rossi Announces More Job LossesThe French ski and snowboard company Rossignol which was bought by Quiksilver last March has announced 104 job cuts in the Rossignol, Dynastar and Look factories. The majority of cuts will be through natural wastage.Quiksilver wants to centralize certain functions across the three parts of the group and across different countries and hopes this will improve communication and productivity within davidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1119011156930837702005-06-17T14:21:00.000+02:002005-06-17T14:25:56.936+02:00Former Brit Ski Racer Builds Million Pound BusinessFormer Brit Ski Racer Matt Aitkenhead has built a million pound turnover business since crashing out of the sport with a serious injury last year. Matt had hoped to spend a year racing as a pro and had saved the money for a season but ripped ligaments put paid to his plans. Instead he took his savings and used them as seedcorn along with a government grant to launch a simple, yet effective idea: davidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1118500160497758492005-06-11T16:24:00.000+02:002005-06-11T16:33:51.876+02:00Chinese Clean-up EverestChinese volunteers have collected 10 tonnes of rubbish from the slopes of Mount Everest over the last 10 days. The team was composed of 31 people has now returned to Peking. The climbed to 8,000 meters altitude to collect the rubbish.The 400 sacks of rubbish included empty bottles, oxygen tanks, tents and even cigarette butts. The operation was organised before the Olympic flame passes over the davidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1118151603911951242005-06-07T15:32:00.000+02:002005-06-07T15:50:56.143+02:00Völkl Shifts Ski Production to ChinaAfter the consolodation between Quicksilver and Rossignol and Atomic and Salomon it seems that Völkl is the latest ski manufacturer to be affected by globalization.Völkl management has long threatened the workforce with a move of production to China, now it is carrying out its promise. Forty nine will be fired in the first move with more job losses to follow. According to boss Christoph Bronder davidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1109672479047227312005-03-01T11:13:00.000+01:002005-03-01T11:21:19.050+01:00Alpe d'Huez Hostage TakersArmed and masked hostage takers bound and gagged a worker from the lift pass office at l'Alpe d'Huez in France. The robbers threatened his wife and daugthers, aged 13 and 18 years in order to obtain keys and security codes that enabled them to rob the receipts of the lift company (SATA) on Sunday evening. The robbers got away with some 15,000 Euros. A relatively limited haul as most clients pay davidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1109174747715955022005-02-23T17:03:00.000+01:002005-02-23T17:05:47.716+01:00Brit Snowmobiler KilledA British tourist who was driving a snowmobile was killed on Monday night after hitting a metal post in the ski resort of Avoriaz the Gendarmerie revealed today. The victim, Sharon Anne Stacey, aged 36 and a resident of Portsmouth died from her injuries despite the efforts of rescue workers.The Gendarmerie have opened an investigation. The use of snowmobiles for leisure purposes is strictly davidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1109150864245613692005-02-23T10:22:00.000+01:002005-02-23T10:30:47.400+01:00French "Dream Team" Creator DiesIn the 1960s Honoré Bonnet built what was arguably the best ski team of all time. His teams won 17 medals -- eight gold, six silver and three bronze at the Olympics of 1960, 1964 and 1968 including Jean-Claude Killy's Olympic triple at Chamrousse. (c) YouCanSki.comM. Bonnet died on Tuesday while walking in the streets of Pra Loup, the station he helped create in 1961.Former French ski coach davidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1109150429897288062005-02-23T10:10:00.000+01:002005-02-23T10:20:29.896+01:00Delay proves fatal for Sugar Bowl Avy VictimEveryone had the requisite safety equipment: a transceiver -- an electronic device that can be used to locate someone buried -- as well as a shovel and probe. The group took a methodical approach after the avalanche hit. One person in the party dug himself out and then spotted one victim's glove in the snow, digging him out after five minutes but the delay to rescue the last victim proved fatal.'davidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1109149741249005412005-02-23T10:04:00.000+01:002005-02-23T10:09:01.250+01:00Calls for Racers to Wear HelmetsAn 18 year old was racing in Apex Mountain Resort's annual Iron Legs competition, in which skiers and snowboarders are challenged to complete all 24 of the mountain's advanced black-diamond and expert double-black-diamond runs in the space of one day, when he shot across the meandering Grandfather's Trail and crashed into a tree.Apex resortPolice say that the young man's injuries would not have davidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1108911597349185272005-02-20T15:59:00.000+01:002005-02-20T15:59:57.350+01:00France Reflects on Avalanche DeathsA series of deaths of both climbers, skiers and French guides over the last two seasons, including ten avalanche victims this year in the Savoie region is fuelling a debate raging in the French Alps over whether ski guiding and off-piste skiing need to be better regulated. Last winter saw the death of six holidaymakers and nine French guides twice the long-term average for guides. Death stalks davidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1105266492397578142005-01-09T11:27:00.000+01:002005-01-09T11:28:12.396+01:00UK Ski Bus crashes near l'Alpe d'Huez11 british tourists have been slightly hurt on Saturday afternoon after their transfer coach hit a building in the industrial wasteland of Livet and Gavet on the road from l'Alpe d'Huez to Grenoble (St Geoirs) airport. The crash was caused by the bus driver suffering from an 'attack'. The driver felt unwell and tried to stop his coach rapidly, hitting a house on the RN91 in the process. The davidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1103540092740556852004-12-20T11:54:00.000+01:002004-12-20T11:54:52.740+01:00Good start to season for TeterIt has been a good start to the season for Hannah Teter who claimed the woman's halfpipe title at the U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix on Sunday. Teter led from her first run and won with a score of 45.20. Kelly Clark, a gold medalist at the Salt Lake City Olympics, was second at 40.20. Czeschin, Teter win take halfpipe titles at Snowboard Grand Prixdavidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1103539266243114512004-12-20T11:41:00.000+01:002004-12-20T11:41:06.243+01:00Snowboarders spend night in openThree US snowboarders are lucky to be alive after spending an icy cold night on a B.C. ski mountain. A father and his two sons were found unharmed today after a lengthy search in an out-of-bounds ski area of Rossland's Red Mountain.Snowboarders found after cold night on mountaindavidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1103539030514099452004-12-20T11:37:00.000+01:002004-12-20T11:37:10.513+01:00Beijing's ski fields hit by warm snapThe warm winter in China's capital Beijing this year has resulted in the postponed opening of its many ski fields. China's weather forecast center said the country is experiencing the 19th warmest winter this year, with the average temperature in the north about 2-4 centigrade higher than that of the same period last year. Warm winter brings Beijing's ski fields "cold" businessdavidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1103538884312787582004-12-20T11:34:00.000+01:002004-12-20T11:55:49.263+01:00Racer collides with snow machineA 13-year-old Steamboat Springs ski racer died Sunday after colliding with a resort snowmobile before the start of a slalom race on Vail Mountain. A preliminary investigation by the Colorado State Patrol revealed that Stamp was skiing at "full speed." A resort employee working on the race course was driving about 10 mph uphill and had sirens on.Accident at resort kills young ski racerdavidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1103311021109857552004-12-17T20:17:00.000+01:002004-12-17T20:17:01.110+01:00Skier survives chute at Tahoe41-year-old David Benson survived an avalanche in the newly opened "Chutes" expert terrain at Mount Rose-Ski Tahoe resort near Reno last Friday when he was able to ride the wall of snow and wrap himself around a tree. The slide occurred the day after Mount Rose opened the Chutes to skiers and snowboarders for the first time in more than 40 years. Reno skier recalls Sierra avalanche experiencedavidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1103188118051345442004-12-16T10:08:00.000+01:002004-12-16T10:08:38.050+01:00Freak tropical storm shuts resort A freak subtropical weather system carrying warm temperatures and heavy rain has saturated the snowpack at Schweitzer Mountain Resort located at Sandpoint in northern Idaho (USA). The storm has not only delayed the resort's opening for last weekend; it is also causing some concern to local business owners who are beginning to feel the effects of a winter resort town without skiers. Due to severedavidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1103187792762342432004-12-16T10:03:00.000+01:002004-12-16T10:03:12.763+01:00Jasey Jay Anderson wins in ChinaJasey Jay Anderson of Mont Tremblant in Quebec, Canada, has picked up his first gold medal of the World Cup snowboard season by winning the cross event Tuesday. Capitalizing on a quick start, Anderson beat a pair of Swiss rivals, Guillaume Nantermod, who was second, and Marco Huser, who was third, at the Skiareana Nassfeld course in ChinaJasey Jay AndersonFrance’s Deborah Anthonioz won the davidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839304.post-1103187524612864702004-12-16T09:58:00.000+01:002004-12-16T09:58:44.613+01:00Alison Eastward's boyfriend dead at VailA snowboarder found dead at Vail Ski Resort was the boyfriend of actress and film producer Alison Eastwood. Michael Combs, 42, was found late Tuesday morning in trees near the bottom of Vail Mountain, Eagle County sheriff's spokeswoman Kim Andree said. He was reported missing Monday night. Alison Eastward with DadBoyfriend of Eastwood's daughter found dead at Colo. ski resortdavidofhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05933347080268442496noreply@blogger.com0