Ski Resort and Snow News - March 2026
Class Action Lawsuit filed against Vail Resorts and Alterra
Published : 31-Mar-2026 06:09
A class action lawsuit filed in the United States is set to challenge the business model that has reshaped modern skiing, with industry giants Vail Resorts and Alterra Mountain Company accused of driving up prices and limiting consumer choice.
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Snowsports GB Win 4 Crystal Globes In 24 Hours
Published : 29-Mar-2026 15:29
Zoe Atkin has added another major milestone to an already remarkable season, becoming the third British skier in just 24 hours to secure a Crystal Globe.
Her latest accolade follows last month's bronze medal at the Cortina–Milan Olympics, part of Great Britain's strongest Winter Games performance in history.
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Charlotte Bankes Takes Third Career Crystal Globe
Published : 29-Mar-2026 07:01
Charlotte Bankes has added another major milestone to her remarkable career, securing a further Snowboard Cross Crystal Globe and reinforcing her status as Britain's most successful snowsport athlete on snow. The Olympic champion arrived in Mont-Sainte-Anne in Canada leading the overall standings and delivered once again, claiming her fifth podium and third individual win of the 2026 World Cup season.
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Scot Kirsty Muir Wins 25-26 Freeski Slopestyle Crystal Globe
Published : 28-Mar-2026 16:25
Aberdeen's Kirsty Muir secured the women's Crystal Globe today after taking second place in the final Freeski Slopestyle World Cup of the 2025/26 campaign in Silvaplana, Switzerland.
The result caps a standout season for the 21‑year‑old, who arrived in Silvaplana fresh from winning last week's event in Tignes and has now collected four podium finishes across the FIS Freeski Park and Pipe tour.
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Freeride World Tour Winners confirmed in Verbier
Published : 28-Mar-2026 16:04
The 2026 Freeride World Tour reached a dramatic conclusion today (Saturday 28 March) on the iconic Bec de Rosses, where the season's champions were crowned after a series of standout performances on one of the sport's most challenging faces.
In the snowboard men's category, Victor de Le Rue further cemented his legacy by claiming a fifth world title.
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J2Ski Snow Report - March 26th 2026
Published : 26-Mar-2026 17:58
Powder on the pistes (demonstrated here by Admin Junior), La Clusaz, France today!
Powder in the Alps, fresh snow in Canada and spring takes a hold in the Rockies.
The Snow Headlines - March 26th
- More spring snowfalls in the Alps give a nice refresh between spells of spring sunshine.
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Winter Returns To The Alps For Easter Holidays
Published : 26-Mar-2026 10:07
Snowy conditions have returned to the Alps ahead of the Easter Holiday period with snowfall reported down to valley floors after temperatures dropped by up to 10C in a few hours.
The change in the weather has been caused by a front moving down from the Arctic, bringing widespread snowfall across the Western, Northern and Central Alps.
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Final of the Freeride World Tour will take place in Verbier this weekend
Published : 25-Mar-2026 09:44
The 2026 champions of the FIS Freeride World Tour by Peak Performance will be crowned this weekend after organisers confirmed that the season finale, the YETI Xtreme Verbier, will go ahead on Saturday 28 March.
A total of 29 riders will compete to determine this year's world champions on the iconic Bec des Rosses slope above Verbier.
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TeamGB's Kirsty Muir Wins Tignes World Cup & Leads Freeski Park and Pipe Overall
Published : 20-Mar-2026 06:36
Scotland's Kirsty Muir delivered an emphatic victory at the Freeski Slopestyle World Cup in Tignes on Thursday, keeping her at the top of the women's standings on 200 points, with only next week's Silvaplana season finale remaining in the 2025/26 season. She also leads overall in the freeski category.
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J2Ski Snow Report - March 19th 2026
Published : 19-Mar-2026 18:09
Crans Montana, Switzerland, skiing well this week...
There's been a return to wintry conditions with some decent snow in parts of the Alps last weekend and heavy falls across North America's Pacific Northwest. It has been warm in parts of the western USA, while there are deep bases in the Pyrenees and Bulgaria, and spring conditions elsewhere.
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Kitzbühel Launching New Electronic Music Festival
Published : 19-Mar-2026 15:34
Kitzbühel is set to expand its winter offering beyond sport this weekend with the launch of a new high-altitude electronic music festival.
The Electronic Boutique Festival Sound | Escape will debut on the Kitzbüheler Horn from 20–22 March 2026, bringing three days of open‑air performances to one of the resort's most scenic peaks.
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Up To 1m Weekend Snowfall Recorded In The Alps
Published : 16-Mar-2026 14:07
Swiss resorts have ended up reporting the biggest snowfall totals through the weekend storm, Saas-Fee reports it got a metre of snow on its higher terrain, the Aletsch Arena 97cm. Verbier also scored highly with an 80cm accumulation. The avalanche danger level has risen to 4 on the scale to max 5, which means "high danger level", particularly off piste.
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J2Ski Snow Report - March 12th 2026
Published : 12-Mar-2026 20:04
Le Grand Bornand, France: it may have felt like spring but winter clouds are rolling back in....
This week switches back to winter in the Alps as temperatures fall and snowfall arrives over the coming days. There has been fresh snow in parts of North America and Europe, and there is deep upper-mountain snow in Scandinavia and the Pyrenees.
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Big Snowfall Heading To The Alps This Weekend
Published : 11-Mar-2026 15:40
Forecasting models are increasingly confident that the three weeks of dry, mild weather in the Alps will end this weekend with some big falls of up to 80cm (nearly three feet) expected on high terrain, much of it expected on Saturday.
Although this doesn't look like an end of springtime conditions (looks like they'll be back by Monday next week), it should be a significant boost after three straight weeks of bases dropping.
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Dirndl Day In Val Gardena
Published : 09-Mar-2026 13:48
A special women's parallel slalom event was held yesterday on the Seiser Alm at Italy's Val Gardena to mark International Women's Day.
The race, staged at Baita Sanon, brought together 40 two‑woman teams ranging from friends to sisters and mother‑daughter pairs, with entry open to participants aged 18 to 99.
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Rock the Pistes Returns to Portes du Soleil
Published : 06-Mar-2026 15:27
The Rock The Pistes music festival returns to the giant Portes du Soleil ski region, which straddles the Franco‑Swiss border, later this month, from 15–21 March.
Although its precise format has changed a little over the years, the main concept, that skiers and riders travel from their base resort of the dozen or so villages in the area to the on-slope gigs then ski back, remains the key ingredient.
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J2Ski Snow Report - March 5th 2026
Published : 05-Mar-2026 19:28
Dramatic Powder Shots in Alta, Utah, USA this week...
After a largely sunny, springlike week across much of Europe, most Alpine resorts boast deep bases following February's storms, while Scandinavia and parts of North America have seen the freshest snow. Resorts continue to open more terrain as avalanche danger eases, though lower slopes are thawing in the valleys
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Snowsport England report 100% increase in website traffic
Published : 05-Mar-2026 07:03
With Team GB celebrating a record-breaking Winter Olympics, Snowsport England, the national governing body for snowsports in England, has reported an upsurge in interest in skiing and snowboarding.
Following Charlotte Bankes' and Huw Nightingale's mixed snowboard cross glory and Zoe Atkins' women's ski halfpipe bronze, Snowsport England has seen website traffic increase by 100% since the Games began on 06 February.
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Vail Resorts Unveils New ‘Gen Z’ Pricing for 2026-27 Epic Pass
Published : 04-Mar-2026 08:04
[b]Vail Resorts has announced a major update to its Epic Pass pricing strategy aimed at making skiing and snowboarding more affordable for younger skiers and snowboarders.
The move introduces a new Gen Z pricing tier for the 2026-27 season, offering people aged 13-30 a significant 20% discount on full-price season passes.
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Les 2 Alpes to extend season to July
Published : 02-Mar-2026 18:44
Les 2 Alpes is preparing for another exceptionally long season, with the French resort confirming it will offer seven-months of lift‑served skiing again this winter, so we're not even half-way though the season there yet.
For a few years now the southerly resort has offered France's longest ski season, overtaking Tignes (which once opened 365 days a year, then for at least some of every month of the year). Most recently it gave up on its previous early autumn opening and shortened its summer ski season to just over a month.
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$100 Million Upgrade for Mont-Sainte-Anne
Published : 01-Mar-2026 08:37
Quebec's Mont-Sainte-Anne has confirmed that its long‑awaited CA$100 million modernisation plan is now moving into full implementation, with the biggest upgrades focused squarely on ski lift renewal, snowmaking expansion, and a major base‑area redevelopment.
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