Together, Font-Romeu’s 587,669 ski-days, Les Angles’ 320,000 and the roughly 200,000 from Trio Pyrénées push Neiges Catalanes past the 1 million mark in total ski-days—a surge fueled in part (30 ...

With the winter season now closed, N'Py has turned its focus to summer tourism. Since May 8, Peyragudes has reopened the Skyvall gondola and its bike park, while Cauterets Pont d’Espagne has also ...

The choices are as stark as they are symbolic: Preserve the current operations, with a steep 30–35% hike in local taxes. Scale back and diversify, retaining only the lower part of the resort and ...

First longish ride of the year, over 2 hours anyway. I benefited from a tail wind, which was nice and took in some lakes on the ride back. The route is almost entirely on cycle paths with a bit on ...

A return to Miribel Jonage to see if there were some tracks I hadn't found on my last visit. They've sufaced the Via Rhona a bit more but I didn't explore beyond Herbens, will have to check out the ...

Italian climber Luca Calzone filmed this video of a Geneva based private plane taking off between ski touring groups on the Monta Rosa mountain range on the Swiss / Italian border (Dufourspitze). The ...

End of season crust skating on the plateau d'Emparis for a bit of fun.

In February 2024, two groups of climbers were caught in an avalanche at Mont-Dore, in the Puy-de-Dôme region. It was the deadliest avalanche in Auvergne in 50 years. France Television have returned to ...

Researchers using data gathered by the Swiss Avalanche Research Center at Davos for accidents between 1981 and 1991 have plotted the survival probability of a victim buried under snow against time.

The B2 often gets labelled as a "punter ski" or it "lacks character" possibly because it does a lot of things very well. The progressive flex means that it is easy to initiate and carve different ...