Season openings, ski pass prices, new lifts and snow from ski resorts across Europe.
A quaint ski village with 16th-century architecture, Wes Anderson-esque aesthetics, a waterfall backdrop, steep streets and frosted peaks towering high above: Red Bull PlayStreets returns to the mountain village of Bad Gastein in the Austrian Alps. On 9 and 10 February, the world's top freeskiers will compete for glory on one of the most beautiful and unique urban slopestyle courses.
Muir, Guseli, Mastro, Takanashi and Kobayashi also earn podium places.
With the introduction of its brand-new Four Pro HD PHOTO goggles, Atomic takes another step in driving skiing forward. Launched in January 2023, the new Four Pros are edgy, urban-inspired performance goggles for progressive skiers on the hunt for adventure. Featuring photochromatic HD lenses with automatic tint adjustment plus an extra clear lens, they deliver intense contrast and visibility in all light conditions and terrains so skiers can see better and ski better, wherever they’re headed. The new Sealed Lens System prevents fogging, and a Live Fit Frame provides custom fit and comfort.
For a whole week, from 12 to 19 March, local cuisine and Ladin dishes will be the stars on the slopes of the La Crusc/Santa Croce Skitour, at the foot of the Santa Croce massif. The opening event, with traditional music and show-cooking on the terraces of the participating mountain huts, will take place on Sunday, 12 March.
In existence since 1977, SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental offers nine valley resorts with 83 modern lifts, 270 km of pistes and over 80 mountain huts. This makes SkiWelt one of the largest, but also one of the greenest, ski areas in the world.
Exactly ten years after her victory at the City Event in Moscow, Lena Dürr celebrates her first World Cup victory in the Slalom in Špindlerův Mlýn on Sunday. The German athlete raced to the top of the podium following two second places and five third-place finishes in this discipline. The day before, the 31-year-old finished second in the first Slalom in Špindlerův Mlýn, with Wendy Holdener from Switzerland finishing third.
Catch up on all the action from this week's various FIS World Cup events.
Three of the six podiums in the two Giant Slaloms in Kronplatz went to the HEAD Worldcup Rebels: Lara Gut-Behrami finished second on Tuesday, and on Wednesday Ragnhild Mowinckel and Sara Hector finished in second and third place.
"Take Two" follows the journey of professional HEAD freeskier Jess Hotter as she makes her comeback on the Freeride World Tour. The film, directed by Jeff Thomas, captures Jess's struggles, triumphs, and the beautiful landscapes of Northern British Columbia together with other HEAD Freeski athletes such as Abel Moga, Blake Marshall and Ian Morrison.
Victory in the Downhill sets a new milestone for Vincent Kriechmayr! The Austrian athlete won the Downhill on the Streif run on Friday to claim this classic race for the first time. The HEAD Worldcup Rebels celebrated a double victory at the Super-G in Cortina d'Ampezzo on Sunday: Ragnhild Mowinckel won ahead of Cornelia Hütter. On Saturday, podium places were won by Kajsa Vickhoff Lie, who was second, and Elena Curtoni, who finished third. Beat Feuz ended his great skiing career in Kitzbühel as one of the most successful HEAD athletes of all time.
Norwegian wins Hahnenkamm downhill as Marco Odermatt suffers injury.
American speed queen becomes first woman to ski legendary Streif course.
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