Tignes-Val d’Isère, France, Report: Short Ski Day Followed by Relaxing Spa Experience This report is from Wednesday, December 4, 2024 Today started with a short trail run from our Club Med hotel to Tignes Le Lac. We rounded the lake and returned for a nice but cold 5K. Our resort has everything we need (including treadmills, but ‘no thank you!’), so finding an excuse to get out and see the town was […] Conditions Report Steven Agar | December 4, 2024 0 Comments
Tignes-Val d’Isere, France, Report: Superb Snow, Special Sundog, and Sunshine Report from Tuesday, December 3, 2024 Tignes received a refresh today with 4″ (10 cm) of fresh snow overnight. We were keen to see the difference the fresh snow made and headed out straight after breakfast to make the most of the day. The conditions were perfect again—blue skies and sunshine, zero wind, and around 30ºF. Yesterday’s report: Tignes, France, Report: Decent […] Conditions Report Steven Agar | December 3, 2024 0 Comments
Val d’Isere, France, Upgrading Vallon Gondola in Time for 24/25 Season Val d’Isere in France, which is interconnected and on one ski pass with neighboring Tignes, is getting a new gondola for the 24/25 season. The new 10-person Vallon gondola at the Col de L’Iseran will replace the old Vallon gondola built in 1982. Val d’Isère and Tignes create one of the largest interconnected ski areas in the world. The area […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | May 3, 2024 0 Comments
Late Season Skiing in Europe: Top 15 Resorts for Spring Skiing As winter fades into spring, some skiers and snowboarders may be moth-balling their equipment for the season, but then there are those die-hard winter enthusiasts refusing to call it quits. If you count yourself into the latter group, you may wonder where you can still get turns in as late as the end of April or even early May in […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | April 12, 2024 2 Comments
Men’s & Women’s FIS Alpine World Cup Events in France & Switzerland Canceled Due To Too Much Snow The Men’s Slalom at Val d’Isere, France, as well as the Women’s Super-G in St. Moritz, Switzerland, were both canceled on Sunday, December 10, 2023, due to too much snow on the pistes. Val d’Isere had also seen some rain on Saturday evening before temperatures dropped below freezing and the precipitation turned to snow. The rain and soft snow damaged […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | December 11, 2023 0 Comments
FIS Alpine World Cup 23/24 Season Shaping Up The International Ski & Snowboard Federation ‘FIS’ held its spring time meeting last week for the first time since 2019. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the meetings were canceled for the last three years. This year’s meetings were held from May 3-5, 2023, in Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia, where they also hed been held in 2019. The meetings are attended by FIS […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | May 8, 2023 0 Comments
Strikes Announced for French Ski Resorts Could Affect Peak Ski Season Two of the biggest French Unions representing workers in ski resorts, ‘Force Ouvrièr’ and ‘Confédération Général du Travail,’ have announced unlimited strikes starting from January 31, 2023. Mass protests began in 230 French cities, including Paris, Marseille, Nice, and Toulouse, on Thursday and Saturday last week, January 19 and 21, 2023, with an estimated 1.5 million people across the country participating […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | January 26, 2023 0 Comments
Man Survives 2 hours and 40 minutes Under Avalanche in Val d’Isere, France An avalanche hit a family of four snowshoeing on the Chemins des Coves track of Val d’Isere, France. The family of four was not wearing transceivers on a level 4 of 5 danger day when a 200m long by 100m wide avalanche hit them. The mother and two teenagers were hit but not buried while the father was buried under […] Avalanche Dominic Gawel | January 29, 2021 0 Comments
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