Event Previews & Reviews from Avoriaz

The Urban Roof n’ Slopestyle is a new concept in freestyle mountain biking. A competition inspired by freestyle snowboarding events that take place in Avoriaz in the winter, it takes dirt and freeride mountain biking and mixes them with parcours to create a new style of street riding.

The Klaxons opened the 2014 Rock the Pistes Festival yesterday afternoon in Avoriaz. The band were the first act in the line up which this year includes Mad Professor and Lee Scratch Perry and Babyshambles.

Now in it’s third year, The Rhythm Sessions promised to be even bigger and better than last year, and we can safely say they didn’t oversell it one bit.

For petrol heads in the Alps the Mont Blanc Rally is one of the big events of the summer.

So it’s official, the season is over. And thanks to Chez Flo and neighbouring bars in Avoriaz, it was sent off in style.

The London Freeze is the ski and snowboard event that brings together international live music acts and some of the world's best riders. The two day festival is the last weekend in October and in 2011 we caught up with X-Games medalist James Wooods for a chat about his Olympic hopes.

More than 700 cyclists took part in the weekends Grand Trophee Cycling Event and that was just the beginning….

The Burton Stash Gathering returns on Wednesday with an amateur snowboard competition that is open to both male and female riders. The competition features a jam format, with groups of riders heading off with one or two judges following them down. The judges then decide who goes through to the next round until the finals. Prizes include Burton, Analog and Red products.

Crankworx found a new European home this summer, moving from Les 2 Alpes to Les Gets, where it will stay for at least the next three years and what a success it's been...