One of the world’s toughest dog sledding races in the world, La Grande Odyssée is being raced again in France this January and holiday makers skiing in the beautiful landscape of the Haute Maurienne Vanoise have the chance to see the race if they’re in resort when it passes through, or to try dog sledding themselves throughout the season.

Guests visiting Scandinavia’s most popular resort this season, Åre in Sweden, can check out the brand new Experience menu offered by the company which runs the resort SkiStar.

The popular Ski Train that had ferried passengers between Denver and Winter Park since 1940 will not run at all during the 2009–2010 season. Iowa Pacific Holdings has not been able to reach an operational agreement with Amtrak, which was to provide crews to operate the train.

Ski Brit Myles Robinson had no shoes on when his body was found, it emerged last night. Sources in the Swiss resort of Wengen revealed he was wearing just one sock at the foot of an icy ravine.

A four-time Olympic ski jump champion is being investigated for an alleged Christmas Day knife attack on his wife, Finnish police say. Finnish legend Matti Nykanen, 46, was arrested after an incident that left his wife with head and hand injuries.

Severe Alpine weather has claimed the life of a British skier who is thought to have been caught in a small avalanche on Christmas Day. The forty-three-year-old man has been identified as Londoner, Nigel Jackson. He was holidaying in La Tour in Chamonix with his girlfriend and two other friends over the Christmas period.

Slovenia’s Andrej Jerman won the Bormio downhill to claim only the second World Cup win of his career. The 31-year-old completed the bumpy 3.27 kilometre Stelvio course in two minutes 0.32 seconds, more than half a second ahead of Switzerland’s Didier Defago.

It should be a fairly snowy week in Austria. Most resorts are expecting between 10cm and 30cm of fresh snow on the upper slopes. The freezing level is expected to hover around 1400m in many places which means only slopes above around 1300m will receive the snow. Rain is likely beneath this altitude.