Team SnowSphere leave Macedonia and head north for more powder, pines and Serbian lines in Kopaonik

We head to Sweden's far north to sample the serene snowboarding in Björnrike - Sweden's Bear Country

Macedonian powder, blood and blizzards, as SnowSphere heads high into the Shar Planina mountains for a cat-snowboarding adventure in the Balkans

8 snowboarders. 4 former Yugoslavian countries. 1 van. The first installment of SnowSphere's Balkan snowboarding road trip extravaganza takes us to Popova Shapka in Macedonia to sample the snow and spirits of this rarely visited country.

Bored of the same runs, the same bars and the same crowds in your (and everyone else’s) favourite resort? Ski specialists Erna Low share 5 secret European ski resorts you have probably never heard of...

Mark McGettigan, former editor of Snowboard UK, heads to the country of Georgia in search of snowboarding and shots of vodka...

We take a look at The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead, the latest indoor ski slope to open in the UK, costing a hefty £23 million to build. But it sounds like it was worth it...

To snowboard the ski resort of Brezovica in Kosovo, or not to snowboard the ski resort of Brezovica in Kosovo, that is the question being banded around SnowSphere HQ right now...

Skiing on the ice planet of Hoth? Snowboarding on Middle Earth? Explore the pleasures of riding deep crystals and hanging with the locals in galaxies far far away…

SnowSphere editor, Sam Baldwin, says his farewells to Snowboard UK, the magazine that inspired thousands of British snowboarders, and speculates on why after almost 20 years, the UK's first and longest running snowboard magazine, has bitten the dust.

To a ski resort in the Austrian Alps and back in a day from the UK – is it possible? Mark Mcgettigan, editor of Snowboard UK magazine went to find out...

SnowSphere heads to Slovenia for a snow-road tripping adventure, and encounters mad artists, fairly-tale castles, pocket-sized ski resorts, and plenty of pivo...

SnowSphere heads to Europe's far east to check out the cheap and cheerful ski resort of Borovets in Bulgaria.

SnowSphere heads to The Lecht ski area in the Scottish Highlands for a surprisingly good bit of snowboarding in Scotland's smallest ski resort. With the pound reaching parity with the Euro, and a great start to the Scottish ski season, could this winter see a revival of Scotland's ski industry?

SnowSphere speaks to Paul Wilson of Propaganda Snowboards about the trials and tribulations of being pioneering Brits in the ski resort of Jasna, Slovakia - setting up the first ever ski lodge to cater for the UK snowboard and ski market.

 Fancy dress is synonymous with one too many, right? Not in Goryu-Hakuba 47 resort - Japan, where every month free lift tickets are given out to those in costume! David Trayner explains...

 

We head to the Middle East to ski and snowboard in the Iranian ski resorts of Dizin and Shemshak and encounter the sweetness of the locals shining through the looming shadow of nuclear concern...

SnowSphere speaks to Ed Leigh, probably the hardest working man in the snowboard media, about his rise from White Lines Magazine teaboy to international snowboard broadcaster and BBC Ski Sunday presenter...

As the ski season in the Northern Hemisphere becomes just a happy memory, our cousins Down Under are waxing their snowboards and skis getting ready to hit the slopes of their homeland. Native Australian Vince Shuley gives us the low down on the ski resorts of Australia and the Aussie ski culture...

Well shiver me timbers readers! - Geiri, a regular SnowSphere contributor takes to the Icelandic Western Fjords to snowboard and ski remote mountains, battling North Atlantic storms, broken outboard motors and making a first descent...