By James Choularton of Outdoor Traders Alain Baxter is Britain’s most successful World Cup skier and, over his two decades as a member of the British Ski Team, he has brought skiing fans from...
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It is normal as a parent to want better for your children than you had yourself. And so as my partner and I hadn’t had the opportunity to learn to ski as children, we decided that it was high...
There’s a lot to be said for spring skiing in the Trois Vallees. Not only do you get all the usual pleasure that comes from blasting round the slopes at Mach 3. You get long, sunny days too:...
Gerhard Told has been teaching children to ski for 37 years, and his school – Kinderkaiserland, at the top of the gondola above Scheffau – is something of a landmark in the Skiwelt. Each...
It’s not easy: the moment you steer off the groomed piste and into the deep stuff beyond. Fitness, technique, equipment, snow quality, mental attidute – they all contribute, and often in...
1. The competition will run on Welove2ski.com until 5pm on Tuesday, March 18, 2014. This is also the closing time and date for entries. 2. The competition is open to all residents of the UK aged 18...
The other day my wife and I stopped for a quick snack in a mountain restaurant in La Plagne. We had a plate of chips: nice French fries, and plenty of ’em, for 7€. A couple of weeks before that...
“It’s not how you look when you learn to ski that’s important. It’s how you feel”. So says My Dahlström, our favourite ski instructor in the ski resort of Are, Sweden...
The story goes that when the ski resort of Are, Sweden installed its night-skiing floodlights in 2006, NASA rang the Swedish government up and asked what was going on. They could see the light from...
Two things really impressed Welove2ski about the skiing in Are, Sweden – as you’ll see from our video. First, its quality. The pistes are not especially long: but the best of them offer...