The 2011/12 Winter ski race season has been an incredible success for GB Children’s ski racer and Snow+Rock (Hemel) sponsored athlete Robert Poth age 14. The Race season began on a high in December 2011, with impressive wins in Champoluc, Italy at the British Alpine Ski Race Club Championships. Robert competed in both Giant Slalom and [...]
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SIGB Ski Test 2012 – Kuhtai, Austria
On Sunday 4th March 2012, a team of nine Snow+Rock employees boarded a plane bound for Austria. Their mission – to select next seasons’ range of skis! Each year the UK’s ski industry comes together to test next season’s equipment. Equipment manufacturers drive samples of their new product ranges out to resort for UK retailers [...]
Rory McCrea – Kenya Road Trip
Last July I spent three weeks travelling in Kenya, an amazing country with a wildly diverse geography and varieties of wildlife. This brilliant adventure had many highlights, including trips to Hells Gate in the Rift Valley where I walked with buffalo and climbed a 2700m volcano, and to the Maasai Mara watching migrating herds of [...]
Ski Test in Pictures
We’re back from the SIGB Ski Test in Kuhtai – great week testing all the skis for next season. Lots of great products to look forward to! Here are some photos and watch this space for a full report.
Douchebag available at Snow+Rock
New for 2012, the Douchebag’s unique construction makes this an ideal lightweight ski bag for travellers. The patent pending Rib Cage design makes it light enough to take on planes as the 25 ABS ribs give additional protection, saving weight over a traditional bag and allowing you to pack more gear. The bag is fully [...]
Sale Now On
At Snow+Rock we are pleased to announce the launch of our Sale which starts today with up to 50% off. It features some great brands from skiing, snowboard and outdoor sports including Salomon Ski Jackets, Icebreaker Clothing, The North Face Jackets, Arc’teryx, Nikita and Burton Snowboard Clothing. Don’t miss out with limited remaining stock on our fantastic range of Ski Jackets, Ski [...]
Service Your Equipment This Spring
In-Store Ski and Snowboard Servicing Serviced regularly, your skis will not only perform better but also last longer. At Snow+Rock we use state of the art technology and highly trained technicians to keep your skis and boards in the best possible condition. The type of service you need will depend on a number of factors [...]
Buy Don’t Rent Packages
Our Exclusive Buy Don’t Rent Ski Package Renting equipment in resorts comes with many pitfalls: Old skis and painful boots, long queues, rude staff and the dreaded Euro exchange rate. You can avoid all of these with our acclaimed BUY DON’T RENT package. This season we’re offering even more choice and better value than ever [...]
Spring Skiing
Spring skiing is one of the many pleasures of the ski season. Warm days, blue skies and sunshine. It is like the reward for enduring the cold windy weather in the heart of winter. With the change in weather comes a change in conditions and for the best experience on the snow you need to [...]
Bodyfactor – Positive Physical Wellbeing
Physiotherapy – Podiatry – Sports Massage – Personal Training working in partnership with With more than 11 years of experience in the sports injuries, physiotherapy and podiatry industry, Bodyfactor provides excellent service and treatment to all its patients. Established in 1998, in conjunction with Snow+Rock, the practice is based in both Chertsey and Covent Garden. [...]
INTRODUCING: Warren Smith, Snow+Rock’s Technique Expert
The Warren Smith Academy brings together some of the sport’s top professionals to create a unique coaching team that actually guarantee technique solutions. This is achieved by evolving traditional methods of coaching and adding two additional layers of biomechanics and physiology. The combo of technique, biomechanics and physiology is rapidly becoming known as the new [...]
Don’t forget your thermals
It is extremely cold in resorts at the moment and without the right kit extremely cold temperatures can make for very unpleasant conditions on the mountain and can curtail your enjoyment. To get the most out of your trip make sure you get yourself some good base and mid-layers. Here are our recommendations: Garments from [...]
The BRITS Snow & Music Festival 2012
The BRITS Snow & Music Festival, held in the award winning resort of LAAX, Switzerland from 18th – 25th March, is the original weeklong winter festival that plays host to the British Snowboard & Freeski Championships. The week (popular with both winter sports fanatics and hardcore partygoers alike) is packed full of live music from [...]
It’s Trade Show month – with ISPO in Munich and SLIDE in Telford
A team of 12, consisting of buying and marketing peeps, headed out to Munich on Saturday 28th January. We were welcomed with snow on the ground and a chill in the air – a perfect setting for finding exciting new products for next winter! ISPO is the biggest snowsports and outdoor trade show in Europe [...]
Check out these 3 great new snowboarding brands we’re stocking!
This little side project of an Icelandic streetwear shop has grown to become one of the hottest brands in women’s snowboarding. Nikita have earned their reputation and credibility by creating clothing with attitude and always having their finger on the pulse of snowboarding culture. Their collection is cool, up to date outerwear for female snowboarders [...]