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It's a small scene, however although small the British freeskiing has always excelled itself when it comes to fielding talent. For years the epicentre and beating heart of British freeskiing was the Ski Village in the northern city of Sheffield.
At one time the Sheffield Ski Village was a...
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Ever since the IOC gave Beijing the nod over Kazakhstan on the 31st of July, the decision to hold the 2022 Winter Olympics in China has been shrouded in...
The Next Generation: 3 British Skiers You Should Know of
Despite its relative lack of large mountains and snow, the UK has a fairly rich history of fielding decent skiers in both the comp and film scenes. Olympians James 'Woodsy' Woods and Katie Summerhayes as well as Legs of Steel athlete...
'The winter on the west coast was shit' -that is to put it bluntly. So perhaps it's no surprise that the number of resort visits was down in comparison to previous seasons. However what is surprising is that despite there being less forty-something suburbanites and their spawn on vay-kay...
Skiing's not cheap, so it's not surprising that 'the annual ski trip' is a cachet of class to which most people don't belong. However it appears that the First Lady who is no stranger to luxury travel truly outdid herself this time.
No Stranger to Steeze, The First Lady of the United States...
It's that time of year again, the sun's starting to linger in the sky ever longer and February's faceshots are but a distant memory. No matter how many beers you mainline at the end of season gathering, you can't escape the reality, summer is just around the corner.
As skiers it's often easy to...
DISCLAIMER: WARNING, this is an opinion piece, it reflects my opinions, you're perfectly entitled to disagree with me, in fact you probably will.
It was inevitable, big business has triumphed, the talons are in and it now looks set to play a bigger role in Skiing than ever before. With the...
Not so much pine wood cabins as pebbledash and portakabins. Aviemore, a small highland town is a world away from Aspen, Whilstler or Verbier, but it still bears the label of 'ski town'.
A strip development paints a dirty streak across the floor of the glen at the foot of Cairngorm Mountain Ski...
In the corner of a South Boston lot lies hundreds of cubic metres of snow.
Following one of the snowiest winters on record where 65 inches of snow fell in February alone, the city drafted in paid volunteers to clear the streets, but all that snow had to be dumped somewhere.
The white tusk of...
No one recommends you eat yellow snow, but would you ski on it?
You may not have a choice as ski resorts under pressure from climate change and limited fresh water reserves make the environmentally friendly switch to sewage effluent, that is, treated waste water, to make artificial snow. It is...
Hundreds of skiers and snowboarders, dressed in nothing but scant swimwear, have slid down a 500-meter slope at Siberia's Sheregesh resort, in a bid to grab the Guinness world record for the greatest number of participants in a nigh-naked downhill.
Each of the 1,835 participants took the...
An anonymous American woman has told her rare story of how a ski accident left her with incredible mental abilities.
She revealed to readers of xoJane.com that she has acquired savant syndrome after she suffered a fall on the slopes during a family holiday.
An individual with savant syndrome...
The TV network Bravo has announced that they will be airing a new reality show about the life of Whistler ski and snowboard instructors. The shows working title is Après Ski. It will be Produced by Tricon Films and Television, with Andrea Gorfolova and Jeff Hevert serving as Executive Producers...
Due to the tram being on wind hold, competitors were forced to hike in to access the Face Chutes…not a bad way to get the legs going before negotiating some of those boilerplate landing zones. Lots east coast talent and east coast carnage.
Here are the results:
Men
1st – Francis Courtois...