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Snow: Too much of a good thing? 11 Feb 2013 | 03:35 am
Road and lift closures. Evacuations and residents confined to their homes. The storms that have brought over 7 meters of snow to the Pyrenees since the New Year don’t seem to be putting a smile on ski...
And the snowiest spot in the world is? 8 Feb 2013 | 12:44 am
No not Valdez in Alaska or Niseko in Japan but the spa town of Cauterets in the Pyrenees. Normally better known for its suphur smelling waters the town has been battling against snowmaggedon since the...
The Ghost Resorts that Haunt the Alps 2 Feb 2013 | 03:32 pm
The Daube has a good article on the long shadow cast by the ghost stations of the alps and focusses on Drouzin le Mont. They also talk about Abondance (saved by an American who then threw in the towel...
Fantastic finale of the Grande Odyssee 23 Jan 2013 | 11:40 pm
After 11 days of competition, in extremely harsh weather conditions, the 2013 edition of the Grande Odyssée Savoie Mont-Blanc (GDO) finished today with the victory of Czech Jiri Vondrak who covered th...
Multivictim searches, and the best transceiver is? 23 Jan 2013 | 11:27 pm
Around this time of year we begin to see the results of “Beacon Beauty Pageants” as someone launches tests of the various avalanche transceivers on the market. The tests are normally pretty straightfo...
Grande Odyssée round-up 20 Jan 2013 | 11:53 pm
Dog sledding is getting more and more popular. Ski resorts have realized this and the bigger ones are hiring professional mushers to give tourists a taste of their childhood when they used to read Jac...
New Year’s avalanche round-up 12 Jan 2013 | 04:30 am
There have been 7 avalanche fatalities to date in 7 incidents. 5 of them off piste skiing or snowboarding, 1 on snowshoes and 1 ski touring. At the same point last year there had been zero fatalities....
9th edition of the Grande Odyssée 10 Jan 2013 | 06:03 pm
The 9th edition of the Grande Odyssée sled dog race starts on the Saturday (12th January 2003). The conditions are looking good again this year with abundant snow fall above 1500 meters over 1000km of...
A Life Ascending on iTunes 28 Dec 2012 | 01:44 am
In case you didn’t catch A Life Ascending when it did the round of the mountain film festivals it is now available as an iTunes download. It is not often you see a film focussed exclusively on ski tou...
Meteo France issues Orange Avalanche Alert for Alps 14 Dec 2012 | 09:54 pm
At 16h00 Meteo France’s regional center in Grenoble issued an orange alert for avalanche risk for the following departments: Haute-Savoie (74), Savoie (73), Isère (38) and the Hautes-Alpes (05). They ...
