After skiing 40cm of fresh snow in St Anton on Monday night, the guides at Piste to Powder declared that “the reboot of the winter season 2012-13 is done”. Looking across the Alps this week you can’t...
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Sometimes you just don’t have the time to explore a whole ski area. Maybe you’re on a weekend getaway to the Alps. Or perhaps you’re on a week-long ski holiday, but you’ve decided to take a day trip...
Tree-skiing can be terrifying. Dive off-piste into a patch of forest, and what started as a high-spirited adventure can quickly turn into a nightmare. The trees seem too dense, the gaps too narrow...
So you’ve just booked your annual ski holiday. The early signs are good – as weeks of expectation become days, the snow forecast picks up. You gleefully devour Sean’s bi-weekly snow reports, as...
Blimey, Snowfiends – we haven’t seen a run of weather in the Alps like this since early December. Across the northern half of the region there was heavy snow this weekend, and according to our snow...
When you’re a skier it’s often the little things that count – such as a lift from the hotel ski locker/ski shop which give you direct access to and from the slopes; and said lift has a bouncy, padded...
“Oh, so you’re going to Kirkwood tomorrow? Man, that place is steep.” That’s pretty much what everyone said when I told them about our upcoming daytrip to Kirkwood Ski Resort – the rootsy little ski...
What we need across the Alps are much lower temperatures and SNOW. The good news is that we are going to get both – with knobs on. The mild weather is making a swift exit today to be replaced by...
Don’t be put off by Gunbarrel. It’s the first thing most people will tell you about in Heavenly Ski Resort, and for many skiers it’s an intimidating prospect. Dropping through 1,800 vertical feet...
1. There’s only one way down Fünf…Vier…Drei…Zwei…Eins…go! There are few more nerve-wracking seconds on skis than the countdown to your turn to leap out of The Inferno...
