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Fresh Spring Snow in Champoluc… let it snow!!
Champoluc is beautifully wrapped in a blanket of soft white spring snow this morning… I’m waxing my skis!… Ski Club Val d’Ayas social race and lunch. Traditional English breakfast at the Hotel Castor and off to surf the powder!… Very rude not to make the most of the last...
read moreAmazing Champoluc Winter Season…. and it’s not finished yet!
As the sun sets on another great ski season here in Champoluc, I would like to thank all of you, our guests at our Hotel Castor this year as ever; it’s been one of the greatest ski years I can remember – snow from the beginning through to the end. So many have enjoyed our off-piste ski offer with our very own Alpine Guide Stefano Percino and we’re working on new ideas for next year! It’s snowing heavily at the moment and looks to do the same for the next couple of days!… Tuesday forecast is sunny… if you...
read moreJust days to go before the end of a great winter season in Champoluc …
Our last guests for the 2011/2012 winter season are enjoying their last couple of days in the Monterosa ski area – a region famed for its fabulous off-piste skiing, magnificent scenery and wel maintained pistes. The ski area closes on Monday, still with good snow cover on most pistes. Bookings for next winter are brisk with those booking early securing their chosen room in their favourite hotel. Our flexible travel arrangements allowing guests to arrive on any day of the week, to stay for any number of nights continues to prove popular....
read moreGraham Bell goes heliskiing in Champoluc
Graham Bell, BBC Ski Sunday presenter, loves travelling out to the Aosta Valley. This April he visited Champoluc, where he stayed in the Hotel Castor. The highlight of his trip was heliskiing in this amazing area of the Aosta Valley. Skiing with his daughter, Graham skied a total 4000m vertical drop to Furi in Switzerland (and was back for tea!) Amazing day heliskiing @AostaValley with daughter Lottie and Herman’s family from the Hotel Castor, dropped at 4000m skied to Furi in Swiss — Graham Bell (@skigrahambell) April 6,...
read moreSpring snow in the Aosta Valley: Pila and Champoluc both have fresh snow
What an end to the season we have seen this week with spring snow across the Aosta Valley. Pilaski in Pila and Ski 2 in Champoluc were both reporting great conditions on...
read moreUNDER ICE DIVING TEST 2012 – PILA
In Pila, the first logistics organization test at “La Nouva Lake” successfully took place at beginning o f this month with the world record man of under ice diving Nicola Brischigiaro. Show, chills, extreme nature, exciting images, to be left breathless! At 2.210 meters of altitude, the 30 cm thickness of the ice lake of La Nouva Lake, has been the unusual scene for extreme under ice divers. The idea was to determine, with confidence, all relevant conditions to organize, as early as...
read moreToday 30 cm of snow in Cervinia
Today in Cervinia felt 30 cm of powder snow. In the next days I suggest you Heliski, will be an amazing experience to finish the season in the best way. www.eliteholiday.net
read moreMarch off piste snow still in great condition
A few of the Evolution team took some time off this morning to get to some of those secret and not so secret spots up on the hill. And the conditions on the north faces were nothing short of perfect . We’ll get a few shots up asap but we don’t want to give away too much as there are still a few more bits and pieces left up there. The rest of the team took advantage of the awsome Pila pistes and enjoyed the sun. Pop round to the Evo Igloo at the top of the gondola to say “hello” and we might just get to show you...
read moreChampoluc – Touching the Void!
SPECIAL OFFER from our Hotel Castor…. once a week throughout the season, for just the price of a good lunch, our Alpine Guide, Stefano Percino is yours for the day!….. Just a couple of days ago my wife Beatrice and I decided to take up our own special offer along with 6 crazy Swedes and the even more crazy Alpine Guide, Stefano Percino with an excursion to “La Valle Perduta” – the Lost Valley. Legend has it that under all those millions of tons of soft white glacier lies a small village, lost to the world at...
read moreNew race academy for British youngsters
SKI 2 RACING The recent success of Ryan, Alysha and Charlotte Brown (the children of one of Ski 2’s directors) in ski races across Europe is testimony to the skill and dedication not only of these 3 youngsters, but to the tuition skills and expertise of their outstanding Italian race coaches. Simon Brown’s three children have spent most of their lives race training with the local ski club in Champoluc and are all performing extremely well on both the Italian and British race circuit. British Children’s Team Ryan was recently chosen...
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