Those dedicated people at Pistehors, an english website devoted to French skiing, are working hard to make the French avalanche bulletins available to non-french speakers. Research has shown that most […]

Check out this footage on You Tube. Some good stuff from some dedicated boarders who don’t need lifts, pistes or even reasonable weather to get their turns. Makes you realise […]

Following on from our recent posts about preserving your summer fitness for skiing, the Facewest team (well 60% of it) lined up for the Haworth Mudman last Sunday. It was […]

It’s always nice to get some customer feedback especially when it comes with great photos from someone out there doing it. Roger Parker sent us this email after his trip. […]

Read this analysis of French avalanche accident data from last season posted by Pistehors. Sadly it concludes that there were double the number of accidents last year compared to the […]

Natives reports that some Colarado ski resorts are set to open this week. This would be the earliest opening on record for some of them. Keystone (95 miles from denver) […]

The last weekend in October is coming up and that means 2 things. The clocks go back and the OMM is on. The OMM (reborn KIMM) is being held in […]

There are a series of short seminars on Avalanche awareness that are taking place at Xscape Milton Keyenes in October and November by Henry Schniewind called ‘Henry’s Avalanche Talks’. Cost […]

I would like to apologise to all the customers who are waiting for suunto products from Facewest at the moment. We are receiving very erratic and incomplete deliveries from Suunto […]