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6 great events to keep you entertained on and off piste this winter

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Friday 16 October 2015 13:01 BST
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Lauberhorn Downhill Race
Lauberhorn Downhill Race

Off-piste events

St. Moritz City Race - 6 December

St. Moritz City Race

A dazzling event where skiing comes down from the slopes and into town – visitors and celebrities taking place in slalom and cross-country races though the centre of the village.

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Snow Polo, Davos - 25-28 February

Snow Polo, Davos

This new event will achieve something remarkable at the very heart of sophisticated Davos - taking the noble sport of polo, with its thundering hooves, and playing it on snow.

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Festival International de Ballons, Chateau d’Oex - 23-30 January

Festival International des Ballons

This aviation extravaganza has been held at Chateau d’Oex since 1979: more than 100 hot-air balloons soar over a snowbound land- scape in fine fashion.

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On-piste events

Rock The Pistes, Champery - 13-19 March

Portes du Soleil Rock the Pistes Festival

This much-feted Valais ski resort dons its dancing shoes every March for a week of live music and DJ sets - some performed on the slopes, some back in town for apres-ski fun.

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Lauberhorn Downhill Race - 15-17 January

Lauberhorn Downhill Race

The Ski World Cup reaches one of its regular heights of excitement as the globe’s best male skiers pit their wits and tech- nique against the notorious Lauberhorn Run in Wengen.

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Gstaad Ride On Music - 10-13 March

Gstaad Ride on Music

On-piste activity of a different sort – this noble ski resort in the Bernese Oberland tuning in for four noisy days of live bands and loud music, played at a sound- stage on the snow.

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