Verbier Ride registration starts, schedule released
This season’s Verbier Ride is a European level pro/am Slope Style event offering athletes over 500 hours of TV airtime and the chance to promote themselves and their sport to millions of viewers. The event kicks off on the morning of December 12th with top athletes and aspiring pro’s arriving in the resort of Verbier, Switzerland.  [...]

Ski train tops new investments at Le Massif
Le Massif ski resort near Quebec City in Canada is at the heart of a $210 million (£120m) investment program spread out over the coming seasons. SkiRebel.com has learned that among the improvements is the resort’s refurbishing of a disused railway line to launch a train service between Quebec City and Le Massif by 2011. [...]

Himalayan ski village project facing possible cancellation
SkiRebel.com has learned that the long planned Himalayan Ski Village in Northern India may finally be canceled according to reports in local media. The ski village project that envisaged a five-star, world-class, ‘eco-friendly’ resort was first launched in 2006 by Alfred Ford, a member of the famous motor car manufacturing family. Initially welcomed by the Indian [...]

Navajo tribe may puchase rather than fight Arizona ski area
The decade long battle between Arizona Snowbowl ski area and indigenous tribes in the area has taken a new twist. A Navajo tribe is considering purchasing the ski area in order to stop controversial snowmaking plans, and they are currently having internal discussions on how best to proceed. The two sides have fought a long series of [...]

Kitzbuhel investing in nine new chairlifts
After an early opening, Kitzbuhel wasn’t done making headlines. SkiRebel.com has learned that cable car companies in the Swiss ski area are investing more than €60 million ($93m) into nine new chairlifts, high performance snow machines, and measures to improve comfort for the coming season. All seven ski regions in the Kitzbüheler Alpen AllStarCard scheme are [...]