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Good news for all of those who love going in train from London to Europe. By 2030, there is a project to have a new train going from London St Pancras to Geneva and Zurich by Swiss Federal Railways.
This project has also the agreement of the British train station and the Getlink group, managers of the Channel Tunnel.
Swiss Railways will have to adapt some of their stations to accommodate these new passengers.
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Here I am stating some different tips you can have in mind to planning your ski trip, so it is a success.
– Book flights and accommodation several months in advance. Prices are usually lower and you can be sure of availability, especially in high season. You can check rates on Booking.com which usually is pretty good. They have also rental cards, flights, transfers and activities. Just go to Booking and check it out.
– Look for packages that include accommodation, ski passes and rental equipment. These are sometimes cheaper than booking everything separately. There are lots of great ski tour operators. It is best to use one in your country if you want to book air through them. If you book air on your own, you can use any bed bank to plan your travel. Just check that the tour operator is accredited through the local entity, such as ASTA, ABTA, etc. You want them to be bonded should anything happens that the company goes bust, and at least the government takes care of what you’ve paid.
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The Mountain Doctors Network (MdeM) has compiled the winter sports accident figures for the 2023-2024 season. The report shows 136,700 injuries, which represents an average of 2.6 injuries per 1,000 skier days.
The winter sports accident observatory. Mountain Doctors publishes accident figures.
The results of the epidemiological network for observing winter sports accidents constitute the most comprehensive database (more than 400,000 cases in the database to date, since 1992) on winter sports pathologies.
For the 2023-2024 season, the report shows 136,700 injuries. This total number allows the association to establish a risk incidence reported to the number of skier days provided by Domaines Skiables de France. This average is 2.6 injured people per 1,000 skier-days.
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European Sleeper Launched Brussels-Venice Night Train Route with Special Event on 5 February
Brussels – Eindhoven – Cologne – Innsbruck – Bolzano/Bozen – Venice
The European Sleeper has launched the much-anticipated night train route connecting Brussels to Venice, with stops in Eindhoven, Cologne, Innsbruck, and Bolzano/Bozen on 5 February 2025, marking the start of a two-month service operating twice weekly for six return journeys throughout February and March. This unique route caters to travellers seeking winter sports getaways, city breaks, cultural experiences, and the world-renowned Venice Carnival.
The provisional timetable has been carefully designed to align with European school holidays, the ski season, and city break getaways to Italy’s most iconic destinations, including Verona and Venice, offering a convenient and sustainable travel option for passengers across Europe.
Chris Engelsman, co-founder of European Sleeper, emphasized the importance of this new route: “This launch is a significant milestone for European Sleeper. Our mission is to reconnect Europe’s cities by night, providing travellers with more options for sustainable and comfortable travel. With stops in iconic locations like Innsbruck and connections to ski resorts and cultural landmarks, this route truly captures the spirit of adventure and discovery.”
Together with InTheSnow I am putting together a competition to win a commission of my Mountain Art and 10 limited prints. Now the competition is also promoted on the Whiteout Ski Podcast.
You can listen to the show in this link. The shoutout for the competition is at 9’43”.
Hosted by Dom Killinger and Robert Stewart, the Whiteout Ski Podcast always bring news of what is going on in the mountains, for mountain lovers from mountain lovers.
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I have already written about Vail Resorts having a rocky period in the news. The news is not calming down, and more things are coming to the fore. From a letter sent from a dissatisfied shareholder, Taylor Schmidt of Late Apex Partners asking for the replacement of CEO Kirsten Lynch, to the COO Angela Korch and also Chairman of the board Robert Katz, to more news on potential strike action and employees dissatisfaction.
The letter of Late Apex Partners.
This has been a scathing report on how Vail Resorts is doing business and is asking for a big change, focusing on guests experience and employees’ wellbeing and not so much on acquiring ski areas abroad, while there is still lots to do in the United States with what Vail Resorts got in stock.
The latest development of this is that Late Apex Partner’s Taylor Schmidt been in contact with the local newspaper Vail Daily stating that he is a bigger stockholder than what today the head management of Vail is, when put into doubt how big of a stakeholder he was.
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There is a case when there are too many tourists in any area, especially in small locations that might not be prepared to receive them. That is the case of what happened at Roccaraso, an Italian ski resort in the Apenine mountains, that is very well loved by Romans and Napolitans. This past Sunday more than 10 thousand Neapolitan “skiers” descended on Roccaraso, creating an instance for overtourism.
As per the Corriere della Sera, Francesco Di Donato, the mayor of Roccaraso said that he needs an army to be able to control the assault of 10,000 Neapolitans day skiers. There were around 220 buses stopping on the Route Statale 17, that is not under the jurisdiction of the mayor. The buses stopped everywhere causing chaos, and suddenly the small town was having too many visitors for the space available.
If you are planning to travel in the half term to the Alps, for sure you are now pretty prepared. Here I want to show you a couple of things that will make your family half term ski holiday easier, more if travelling with younger kids. They can help you while trying to drag your kids from the parking lot to the lifts and make your family ski experience easier.
I know that getting young kids in the slopes is difficult. Most of the people that do this, is because they are skiers or boarders themselves (all that new generation of boarders is thanks to their parents starting the sport some years ago, which keeps the sport alive!)
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If so, you already go skiing, and you know how to pack! But sometimes, we forget what it was skiing when young, more, because one had not dealt with any of the preparations.
Here are some things that might help your next family ski trip to the mountains:
Warm hats – Always, remember to have a couple of warm hats. Even though kids need to use helmets by law (at least in all places I know), in very cold days, you can put a beanie that is not bulky under the hat to keep their heads warm.
And it never hurts having a couple of hats just in case your kid decides to roll on the snow in the afternoon and you need to get their little heads warm for venturing out for dinner.
These Merino and polyester hats of Danish Endurance have a good shape for
under helmets for kids (one size only)
Here you have the same brand for adults
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After 12 months of being closed due to a landslide, the Frejus rail tunnel will reopen in April. Trains from Paris to Milan will be able to connect again passing through Lyon and Turin.
But on the website of Italy’s Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS) it says that the tunnel will open in March.
Supposedly the train was due to open by December 2024. Due to complications and “unstable and deep cavities discovered in the central area of the slope required additional work” -meaning that the opening was postponed to the first quarter of 2025.
It looks like there is a solid day for its opening now, even though all players, from SNCF Rêseau, the Department of Savoie, or FS have said much. Many rerouted services will be affected, with links between Turin, Chambéry and Lion, apart of Milan and Paris, and freight trains.
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