The storm that blew through the Southern Alps last weekend wasn't all good news for the regions beleaguered ski areas.

With good snowfall in early December, 2023 it seemed like nordic ski areas were off to a good start compared to the previous winter. That was not counting on the weather.

An avalanche has caught a large group of climbers at le Mont Dore in the Massif Central. They were on a training course preparing for a climb of Mont Blanc.

A couple of ski tourers, a man and a woman aged in their 40s, have been involved in an avalanche incident on the crête de l’Arpion (2671m) in the Southern French Alps.

Two skiers have been caught in by an on piste avalanche at Praz de Lys Sommand. The Lac piste, a blue run, was open at the time.

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.

Faced with a double whammy of sky-high electricity bills and a second season of poor snow and record temperatures a number of French ski resorts are on the brink of bankruptcy and may join  the 1

I've often thought it would be possible to make a cross country ski binding more like step in mtb binding.

A weather whiplash is a series of rapid swings between extremes of weather. Cold and snowy one day, spring like weather with rain at altitude the next.

I was sharing the chair lift with a couple of old geezers.