 It's been a strange season with unusual conditions for Europe, and the season's final issue of Snowboard UK magazine is out - the annual photo edition. Inside get ready to gorge yourself on some of the best snowboarding shots of the year from around the world, and of course - read SnowSphere's final "A Line Less Ordinary" column of the season - this month looking at the snowboarding opportunities of Israel - the country that brought you the Uzi sub machine gun... |
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 The director of the Icelandic Snowboard Association has launched an attack on American publications Snowboarder Magazine and Transworld Snowboarding in response to the ongoing appearance of US Army advertisements on their websites and in their magazines. The criticism was delivered in an open letter and questions the morality of promoting the "US war machine" in a snowboarding magazine... |
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  We've just heard the sad news that the Nikita Iceland Park Project 2007 has been cancelled. The IPP's organisers have announced that due to some "unresolved issues" the camp will not be running at all this year... |
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  We recently stumbled across a new website that we thought was well worthy of a mention. SnowBrOADER is a snowboarding blog dedicated to covering the European snowboarding scene; competitions, products, interviews with the latest European snowboarding stars, events and festival coverage - if it's snowboard related and it's happening on the turf of our fine European continent, then the chances are SnowBrOADER will be featuring it... |
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 To be honest, we were pretty reluctant to jump on the MySpace train at first. To us, it seemed that MySpace was just a place for teenagers to post extremely dull drivel in irritating txt speek al da tym... |
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Those of you who have the eyes of a hawk, will have noticed that we have recently added a "Most Read Articles" section into the left sidebar of the SnowSphere site. We'll be keeping this updated as various articles rise through the ranks of popularity vying for the number one position at top of the SnowSphere charts. Read on to see our Top 10 most popular articles... |
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 It's April already and winter is over, but there's still snow in the mountains of the north, and as for the southern hemisphere, the season is still to come. This means that the penultimate issue of Snowboard UK magazine is out, featuring an article about snowboarding in China, a board bag and back pack buyers' guide, and of course SnowSphere's monthly column "A Line Less Ordinary" - this month looking at snowboarding in Slovakia. |
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 Snowbombing is back with what promises to be the biggest and most eclectic music festival of the winter season... |
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 Check the February 2007 issue of Snowboard UK Magazine to read SnowSphere's column "A Line Less Ordinary" - this month featuring the joys of riding in Iceland amongst a genetically perfect population. Also in this issue the SUK crew build the world's highest kicker in Pakistan, 7 freeriding hotspots and another very cool cover shot. |
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 Happy Birthday to us! SnowSphere Magazine is officially one year old this month, and we've got big plans for 2007... |
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 News has reached SnowSphere H.Q. that a Russian heli-trip adventure is in the planning and the organisers are opening the doors to anyone else who wants a taste of white Russian snow in the spectacular Caucasus Mountains...
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 If you want to read about snowboarding in South Africa, check out SnowSphere's column: "A Line Less Ordinary" in the January 07 issue of Snowboard UK Magazine. Also on offer: Road Trippin' Canada, Where To Ride Guide, Pants Product Special and in our opinion, one of the coolest cover shots of all time. |
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 Check out the December 2006 issue of Snowboard UK to read about Borat's homeland of Kazakhstan in SnowSphere's regular column "A Line Less Ordinary". Also in this issue: Snowboarding in Turkey, Jacket Special and a free movie "Whitespace". Go get it! |
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 We are excited to announce that the new line of SnowSphere t-shirts and hoodies will be designed by the Baka Inaka Clothing Company. Baka Inaka are best known for causing a ruckus in the Fukui area of Japan with their controversial design... |
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 Using our in depth knowledge of the world's ski resorts, SnowSphere are proud to be part of the brand new World Snowboard Guide (11th Edition) that has just hit the shops this month. The 512 page full colour book is more packed than a hard packed piste with info on ski resorts the world over, from Algeria to Austria… |
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After months of heart ache, we are proud to present the brand new SnowSphere.com site. You'll still find all our normal features, interviews and reviews, but now you'll be getting a lot more regular doses of SnowSphere goodness, all with the new "sexytime" look. This season we have exciting new features on Slovakia and Japan, some inspiring interviews with the entrepreneurs of the snowbiz world, and we take a look into the use of drugs in snow sport culture, plus our season bloggers will be reporting back from the peaks of the planet! Stay tuned... |
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 SnowSphere has teamed up with the UK's original snowboarding magazine - Snowboard UK, to bring you a new monthly column A Line Less Ordinary... |
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Keen readers of SnowSphere Magazine may know that we also write for a plethora of other winter sports publications, spreading our knowledge of the world's most remote ski resorts to the rest of the snow sports fraternity...
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Russia, Austria and South Korea will battle it out on Wednesday 4th July 2007 for a chance to host the prestigious 2014 Winter Olympics. The current thinking is that Pyeongchang in S. Korea is the favourite, followed by Sochi, Russia, and in last place Salzburg, Austria. 
The investment and construction boom that is currently taking place in the largely unreported, relatively peaceful northern part of Iraq has led to a proposal for the country's first modern ski resort...
