http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/ World Snowboard Guide is the definitve resource for all things snowboarding. Independent reviews and details of over 1000 resorts, news, events and articles en-gb Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT Copyright: (C) WSG Media Ltd, see http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/about/terms.cfm for terms and conditions of reuse http://feedvalidator.org/docs/rss2.html 60 The BRITS Snow & Music Festival, which hits Laax, Switzerland this weekend, 21st 28th March 2010, are excited to announce that world renowned DJ, A SKILLZ and twice DMC World Champion, DJ Switch http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100318brits.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100318brits.cfm Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding Sunday saw enjoyed excellent conditions for the 4th Nendaz Freeride. Some of the best international riders entertained the 500 spectators present at the Red Bull village at the foot of Mont-Gond. http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100318nendazfreeride.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100318nendazfreeride.cfm Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding A FIS specification big air kicker, start of the access road improvement plan, and an extension of its ski improvement programme have been announced today by Treble Cone Ski Area http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100318treblecone.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100318treblecone.cfm Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding Switzerland's Iouri Podladtchikov emptied his bag of tricks in the halfpipe finals at the Winter-X games in Tignes, with a record breaking score to take top honours http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100313xgameshalfpipe.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100313xgameshalfpipe.cfm Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding Go GB, Bristol's Jenny Jones takes gold medal in the womens slopestyle final at the Winter X-Games in Tignes http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100312jennyjones.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100312jennyjones.cfm Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding A foot of fresh in the French Pyrenees, 50cm in 24 Hours on Germanys ski slopes, Another metre of snow in 36 hours for Scotland, 'Dream like conditions' in Austria where resorts report 30cm (a foot) of new snow. 'Finest powder snow' in Switzerland, Three feet of new snow in California http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100312snowupdate.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100312snowupdate.cfm Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding Eric Willett takes the gold medal in the slopestyle and Kaitlyn Farrington upsets Olympic champion Torah Bright to take the womens halfpipe at the x-games in Tignes, France http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100311xgames.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100311xgames.cfm Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding Taking place at Stratton Mountain Resort from March 15-21, the Open is the first US event since the 2010 Olympics where snowboard medalists Shaun White, Peetu Piiroinen, Scotty Lago, Hannah Teter and Kelly Clark will compete. http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100309usopen.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100309usopen.cfm Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding In the foggy halfpipe in Leysin, it was 15yr old Swiss rider Patrick Burgener that turned some heads. Britains Dan Wakeham came 9th in the 4TTR comp http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100308ttr.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100308ttr.cfm Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding 21-year old Peetu Piiroinen took first place in todays slopestyle competition, and with an additional 1000 TTR ranking points on his account, he took an unassailable lead in the TTR World Rankings http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100307articchallenge.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100307articchallenge.cfm Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding The 17 snowboarders just managed to finish their runs before the mountain disappeared in cloud, in the Freeride World Tour qualifier event in Slovenia http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100307freeride.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100307freeride.cfm Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding 'Snowicane' brings heavy snow to Eastern USA, the West side gets dumped on too. Heavy snow continues in Scandinavia. Scottish ski areas have to blast for the first time to create avalanche safety. Next to f'all new snow in Europe http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100303snowupdate.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100303snowupdate.cfm Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding One week to go until the first x-games kicks off on European soil, and ESPN will be showing live coverage of the games on UK television http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100303xgames.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100303xgames.cfm Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding Its a rare as a GB gold medal, but you can currently snowboard from the top of the Nevis range to the bottom of the Gondola. http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100227nevis.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100227nevis.cfm Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding The 5Star Burn River Jump took on its second format, the Straight Jump, this evening in the centre of Livigno. Britains Jamie Nicholls came 6th http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100227riverjump.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100227riverjump.cfm Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding American Eric Willett took home the Brux Slopestyle title and 850 Swatch TTR ranking points this Thursday at the 5Star Burn River Jump in Livigno, Italy http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100226riverjump.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100226riverjump.cfm Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding With over 40 teams applying, and each one of an incredibly high standard, the Jib-Vid crew had a really tough time making the hard decisions on who would make it to the start list of 18 teams http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100224jibvid.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100224jibvid.cfm Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding CairnGorm Mountain is attempting to set a world record for the largest number of kilted skierssnowboarders skiing down a piste at once. The attempt will take place on Saturday 6th March at 11am and all money raised will go to local ski programmes http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100224CairnGorm.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100224CairnGorm.cfm Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding Bring a snorkel for shoulder deep skiing in Niseko.Snow on the ground in all 50 US states for the first time since 1977, More snow in Madrid, Europes Most Southerly Ski Areas Reports up to 4m of snow, Another foot of snow on Scotlands ski slopes, best season in 30 years continues. http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100217snowupdate.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100217snowupdate.cfm Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding AU 2.5million is being spent over the summer to improve snow cover with the purchase of 28 automatic snow cannons. The resort has also announced that the Wombats Ramble will be open for night boarding on wednesday & saturdays http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100215fallscreek.cfm http://www.worldsnowboardguide.com/news/story/20100215fallscreek.cfm Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Snowboarding