Articles Archive for February 2010

The Finnish based company Amer Sports, which owns iconic ski brands Atomic and Salomon euro, reported a 36.6 million Euro profit in the final quarter of 2009, more than double the figure for the same quarter in 2008.

The latest in the growing list of iPhone ski apps comes from the Austrian Tourist office who have launched the new iSki Austria app. It provides the latest snow and weather reports, many ski resort maps, “and much more.”…

At the Sapporo Snow Festival 2010, it was the 37th international snow sculpture contest. 14 countries sculpted snow like their lives depended on it. There were chisels banging, hearts pounding and snow slowly melting. And then it was all…

With just a week until the Winter Olympics finally kick-off, the latest Vancouver snow report is here. Well, Vancouver itself isn’t looking great but south of the border, the US has been hit by its worst blizzard in 90…

Following the news that Britain’s governing body of snow sports, Snowsport GB, has gone into administration, the British Snowboard Association (BSA) has announced it will retake control of snowboarding in the UK.

Owing to the sudden demise of the British Ski & Snowboard Federation (aka Snowsport GB) which went into administration on 5th Feb. 2010, the fourteen British Ski & Snowboard athletes, departing for the Winter Olympics, which start in Vancouver…