DUMP 2017: The Big One Is Coming

Mar 05, 2017 No Comments by

The Bansko ski season has entered the phase I love the most, it called March. Almost every year, that I can remember, this is the month with some of the biggest dumps of snow happen. And it looks like 2017 is looking like no exception; but it come with a dose of snow anxiety due […]

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Snowboard World Cup 2017: Success

Feb 05, 2017 No Comments by

The FIS World Snowboard Cup is now over. Those that went to watch it confirmed it created a wonderful atmosphere. Bulgaria’s snowboard superstar Radoslav Yankov made all Bulgarians proud by securing the much anticipated win in front of a vocal crowd of supporters in the stadium. The full report is here: http://www.fis-ski.com/snowboard/alpine-snowboard/news-multimedia/news/article=kummer-and-yankov-triumph-historic-race-bulgaria.html I am disappointed I […]

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DUMP 2017: Happy Mira

Jan 11, 2017 No Comments by

The snow fell heavily on Monday night and so DUMP 2017 continues. Just as it will for at least another week. Mira features in today’s snow report. Mira is the happy girl on reception at skimania, my exclusive ski hire and lesson partners in Bansko. Last season Mira started to learn to snowboard and my […]

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Snow Forecast For Christmas

Dec 22, 2016 No Comments by

The snow forecast has just changed to show that there is a probability of snow evening of Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th December and Wednesday 28th December . But we’ve had a week of surprisingly good conditions. Here’s a client of banskoblog that I bumped into. He provides his view of the week. This was […]

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Fresh Snow Falling For Easter

Mar 27, 2016 No Comments by

A whole week of good ski conditions will continue this week. March is a legendary time her win Bansko, and I only wish that more places would have the confidence to remain open. Because I know that more and more of you prefer to come late season. I prefer it now, the day’s are light […]

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Easter Skiing Snow And Après Ski Forecast

Mar 22, 2016 No Comments by

Bansko for Western Easter (rather than Eastern Orthodox Easter (see this wikipedia linkis nearly upon us. But before I talk about the forecast, I can report that the last two weeks snow conditions have been tremendous. Fresh snowfalls meant great of piste days and cooler temperature and sunshine lead to especially enjoyable days on the […]

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Snow Forecast. It’s Snowing Now!

Mar 02, 2016 No Comments

The warm weather spell is, finally, coming to an end. It’s even snowing at 180 bar level as I type this, on Wednesday 2nd March. Some snow/rain during Thursday 3rd will turn to snow, I think a snow rather than rain in town on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th. Oh my gosh, I can’t believe […]

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