My plan was to do a small loop via the Col du Ban, then the Col de la Luère. There was a bit of smog on the west side of the Col du Ban. This was due to an inversion layer coupled with wood stoves. In ...

Skiers and ski tourers are facing new restrictions. This time in the ski resort of les Sept Laux following a dispute with a land owner. A gate now blocks the bottom of the classic Vallons de la Pra ...

Scoring a perfect 100 on the criticism index, Les Deux Alpes tops the list as Europe’s most criticised resort. Over 56% of negative reviews relate to overcrowding, particularly long lift queues, ...

A woman in her thirties lost her life in an avalanche on Wednesday morning while skiing off-piste in the Chamonix Valley. The incident occurred around 2000 meters altitude on the north face of the ...

After some good snow at the end of October conditions have been anticyclonic, ideal for forming weak layers in the snowpack. This fine weather has been frequently accompanied by foehn type winds ...

It is an increasingly frequent event. Saharan sand on your car in the morning and covering the ski slopes. According to Meteo France the dust cloud formed in the north of Algeria and is rarely seen in ...

Salomon have issued a recall for its MTN pin binding range. The recall in only for bindings manufactured from May 2022 to March 2023. The recall concerns the possibility of a breakage of the spring ...

New research published in Nature (Lee et al. 2025) suggests that the weakening of the North Atlantic conveyor will not product the bumper winters that many ski enthusiasts had expected. The research ...

The aim was to do 1000m of V+. Promise made, promise kept, as politicians like to boast. Although in my case it really was kept. 3 climbs of 300 meters plus 100 extra meters at the end. I took it a ...

It is mid February and the French winter holiday period should be in full swing but unseasonably warm weather is taking a toll on ski resorts in France’s lower and mid-mountain regions, raising ...

Given the early-season snow conditions and our inability to publish the official avalanche bulletins (BeRA) before November 3rd, and following our small “soft slab” field session last Sunday, we are ...

The news that the highest ski resort in the French Pyrénées has been declared bankrupt almost went without notice outside of the region. It is not the first time for Puigmal. The ski area already went ...