like snow, only cooler
Mother Nature’s looking kindly on SNO lovers at the moment, and today the Alps have seen a delicious dusting of the white stuff. Most are likely to get more of the same tomorrow, with forecasts for Friday and Saturday seeing the clouds give way to some glorious sunshine – before they return with more snow […]
It’s Burns Night this evening, but it’s also another Gaelic themed national day … While the likes of Le Frog in Serre Chevalier are preparing their Rabbie celebrations (Dee planned a Burns supper with music, haggis, neeps and tatties), others are raising their glasses to Irish Coffee Day. Irish Coffee came to be 74 years ago, […]
The one that makes skiing baaaaaaaarilliant… The one you’d want to follow in a white-out… …if you’re not already following this yellow fellow… The one that reminds us how much we love carbs on ski holidays… The science lesson on the slopes (and his friend, the quiffy carrot?)… The […]
It’s Russian Christmas today, and it’s turning out to be a rather white one. There have been heavy dumps of white stuff in certain parts of the Alps this week, with the high French resorts, Austria’s Arlberg region and some ski areas in Switzerland being very much in the Snow God’s favour. Avalanche risk is […]
Hannah Umlandt reports on freestyle and fangirling at the Ski & Snowboard show. West Brompton became ‘the home of the beanie’ last week, when I joined SNO lovers from all over the globe for The Telegraph Ski and Snowboard Show. Walking around without buying anything was like being at Borough Market on a 5:2 fasting […]
After a glorious first fortnight in the French alps – some truly memorable days in the ski holiday hotspots of Alpe d’Huez, Les Deux Alpes and La Grave– it was time to up-sticks from our first campsite in Bourg d’Oisans and head for our next sojourn in Brides les Bains, below the ski resorts of the legendary Les Troi Vallees. […]
On the fringe of conventional ski holidays can be found the odd ski resort with a special reputation – here’s what La Grave.com has to say aboutskiing la grave: “By exploring the domain of La Grave-La Meije, you are not in a typical ski resort. This is a real mountain environment as you head down in an […]
There isn’t much about ski holidays or ski resorts here I’m afraid – this is probably one for family & friends really… & anyone who likes characterful/cute toddlers – pictures shot in Les 2 Alpes, posted in chronological order, Jimmy is 21 months old: Please help to feed & clothe this poor child, by adding a link […]
We all know how learning to ski or snowboard goes – you spend your first wobbly day or two of the ski holiday within arms length of the cafes, on a nursery slope as steep as… well its almost completely flat. Then you progress a little further from the ski resort up the hill and […]
