Articles Archive for February 2012

Speed skiing is the fastest non-motorised method of travel on land, with racers frequently reaching speeds of up to 250 kilometres per hour, which is even faster than the terminal velocity of a free-falling skydiver; at about about 190 kilometres per…

Updated for the 2011-12 season, here’s the complete list of Crystal Ski in-resort twitter accounts for 100+ European and North American ski resort destinations. Find your resort twitter feed and stay up to date with conditions and events before you

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Crystal Ski recently added special new accommodation to two of its resorts in France. The lucky resorts of Tignes and Val Thorens are the first to have a Riders’ Lodge chalet added to them.

Crystal Riders’ Lodge is designed to be…

Last month, we ran a competition here on ski-buzz to win a once in a lifetime holiday to ski in Alberta, Canada.

Over 850 entries were scrutinised and shortlisted, from poems to acrostics to #hashtags and even

Mark Barber from Extreme Stunts.co.uk recently hit the slopes of the Dolomites in Italy for a snowboarding break. Kitted out in Dare 2b clothing from top to toe, Mark put their ski and snowboarding gear through its paces.

Dare 2b…

Hayley Aldridge, one of the Crystal team in the Austrian resort of  Mayrhofen tells the story of their big adventure of the season – a night time hike up the Ahorn mountain to 1966m from the valley floor some…