Season openings, ski pass prices, new lifts and snow from ski resorts across Europe.
As usual, the Four Hills Tournament starts at the end of the year. The competitions take place on 29 December (Oberstdorf), 1 January (Garmisch-Partenkirchen), 4 January (Innsbruck) and 6 January (Bischofshofen). Who has the best chance of overall victory? Will the Poles join the fight for the top places? Read on to find out.
More and more of us head to the Alps in December not just for skiing and après-ski but for something quite different: the smell of mulled wine, festive lights, regional flavours and that moment when, after skiing down from the glacier, you can wander between the market stalls with a mug of punch in your hand. From Tyrol to Switzerland, from the Dolomites to Salzburg. Skionline recommends the markets that are really worth seeing in winter 2025/26.
In Jasná the winter season got under way on the last weekend of November, and from the very first hours it was clear that the resort had started the winter strongly. A total of 17 kilometres of pistes opened, clearly more than was expected just a few days earlier. The weather was good for skiing, temperatures are staying below zero, the pistes are superbly prepared and, as usual, skiers turned out in force.
The Jasná ski resort in Slovakia's Low Tatras will start the 2025/26 winter season on the last weekend of November. The opening is planned for 28 and 29 November, and the resort's operator promises around ten kilometres of pistes for that date. On Saturday evening Dieter Bohlen will take the stage at Happy End, performing Modern Talking songs.
Austria's SalzburgerLand has long been at the heart of Alpine tourism, and its snowiest resort, Obertauern, marks the start of the ski winter every year. Here the slopes really do begin at the hotel door, and the snow lasts longer than in other parts of the country. For the 2025/26 season the region is focusing on convenience: a new mobility ticket for guests, a packed events calendar and infrastructure.
The SKI plus CITY Pass Stubai Innsbruck offers more! More fun, more on offer and more flexibility for holidays, with friends or with the whole family. Just super easy. The pass is the ticket to 12 ski resorts, including the Stubai Glacier, and 22 lifestyle offers in Innsbruck. Skiing, snowboarding, tobogganing, swimming, culture, sightseeing and city fun, all in one! Unique in the world, alpine-urban and with endless design possibilities, for a winter holiday that will be remembered.
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First and second places in the two Super-G races in Kvitfjell see Lara Gut-Behrami further extend her lead in the overall World Cup and the Super-G discipline. The HEAD Worldcup Rebels celebrate a double victory on Saturday with Lara Gut-Behrami and Cornelia Hütter. In Aspen, Atle Lie McGrath finishes third on Friday, returning to the Giant Slalom podium for the first time in more than three years.
Winning by more than a second in the Giant Slalom in Kronplatz, Lara Gut-Behrami celebrates her 42nd World Cup victory, the eighth in this discipline. The Swiss athlete continues to extend her lead in the Giant Slalom World Cup. Sara Hector also races to the podium in second place.
Fischer, a global leader in the sporting goods industry, is thrilled to announce the celebration of its 100th anniversary. Since its inception in 1924, Fischer has been at the forefront of innovation and quality in the world of sports equipment, and this milestone is a testament to the company's unwavering commitment to excellence.
The 2023-24 Dolomiti Superski winter season gets off to a great start with a wide range of open lifts and pistes for the first big winter bank holiday on 8 December. In total, more than 320 lifts and around two thirds of the piste kilometres will be available in all 12 ski resorts in the Dolomites. The weather forecasts are also favourable. So far, the number of skiers has been higher than last year.
In the 2023/24 season, the ski world can once again look forward to one of its true World Cup classics next week. And a triple edition at that: a downhill race that was canceled in Zermatt-Cervinia will be hosted on the Saslong on Thursday, 14 December, before the original program is held with the super-G on Friday, 15 December and the downhill on Saturday, 16 December. Once again, everything is in place for the big South Tyrolean ski festival.
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