What a great ski deal! Winter is almost here, and as you’ll have seen on our most recent snow report, resorts are opening up throughout the US Rockies…with oodles of snow, Whistler is opening...
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Welcome, snowfiends, to the first of this season’s Thursday snow reports. We’re switching today to our twice-weekly service, because – suddenly – the ski season is bursting into life...
The central Planai ski area is reached by a gondola that rises from the edge of Schladming. Alternatively, you can drive up an all-weather road to a car park just below the mid-station. A network of...
Schladming centre has a good choice of three- and four-star hotels, but the quiet surrounding villages of Haus, Pichl, Rohrmoos, and Ramsau provide the better budget choices. The four-stars in...
Schladming has ‘the normal lively bars, but there’s not enough going on for a young group where apres comes first,’ commented a reporter, and ‘the nightlife was more than adequate for a geriatric...
The excellent Schladming ski schools meet at Rohrmoos, and the Planai nursery slopes are well-organised with several gentle blue runs. The lower slopes of Rohrmoos are also well suited to learners...
Schladming has an abundance of friendly huts – over 40 of them – scattered across the mountainside. Seiterhutte is a traditional wooden chalet with a glass and aluminium extension. It serves...
Fellow snowfiends, a word of warning; if you’re pining for the white stuff, LOOK AWAY NOW. The latest videos from Sunshine Village and Lake Louise – in Banff National Park, Canada – are going...
Welcome, snowfiends, to a bonus Friday-morning Snow Report! Why? Because we want to celebrate the fact that the ski world is taking four big steps towards winter this weekend. 1. Double M opens...
“Where is best and the most enjoyable ski slope in the whole of France?” we asked Chamonix mountain guide Yves Detry. Yves knows a thing or two about skiing the deep and steep – he was the first man...
