Ski rail website snowcarbon.co.uk has added a new feature this year that lets skiers view the best rail journey connections from London to 32 ski resorts on any specific date.
The skier was injured Sunday while skiing on Rail Splitter, one of the advanced runs at Northstar Ski Resort, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal.
These packages, which start at $341, include hotel accommodations, lift tickets, shuttles to Whiteface or Gore Mountains for skiing and roundtrip rail fare.
In the ESPN Winter X Games at Buttermilk from Jan . 30to Feb. 2, some 250 athletes from around the world will ski and snowboard, riding rails, jumps and a super pipe (a higher-walled half-pipe), for medals and cash prizes.
This meant the only choice was a taxi," said Daniel Elkan, co-founder of rail-ski website snowcarbon.co.uk, part of the group behind the new service.
The sun quickly warmed things - as did chasing Joe's butt while struggling to keep my skis in the carved out rails along the wooded trails.
Landlubbers might prefer rail and ski to sail and ski so hop on the Flåm railway: the 20km-long scenic ride (rated by Lonely Planet Traveller magazine as "the world's best train ride") takes you from the shores of Aurlandsfjord to the mountains of Myrdal, where you can go ski touring on the Storeskavlen glacier from the comfort of the Vatnahalsen hotel.
They just went to play around at their local ski centres on the boxes and rails and small jumps," he says.
I made my first attempt at deep powder, but with my East Coast pedigree and rail-thin skis, I cartwheeled from top to bottom.
The snowcarbon.co.uk website will, from 1 October, offer a range of rail-inclusive ski packages from St Pancras, including transfers from stations to resorts and across Paris; among the tour operators involved are Erna Low and Peak Retreats.
