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From Grands Montets Powder
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From Amy and Arend Ski into Skoki Lodge
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From New Year in Germany
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From Skiing off Piste
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From Skiing in Chamonix
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From Powder & Cakes
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From Boxing Day Cross Country at the
Canmore Nordic Centre
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From Xmas Skiing in Chamonix
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From Mont Blanc failure...
Category: Snow Sports
Ski, snowboard and other snow related sports, including ski mountaineering and touring.
It’s become a bit of a tradition to take the first week of February as a skiing trip; it offers two fantastic things, usually some of the best snow conditions, and the week incorporates my birthday. Why not? I pay pay for the queen to have a holiday on her birthday every year, why shouldn’t …
Skoki Lodge is a classic back country ski tour. My friend Val has done it many times and I had always fancied it.
We left Chamonix on Monday evening and headed over to Germany, via Switzerland, to visit our friends in the very small village of Todtmoos-Au in the Black Forest.
On Boxing day I went skiing with Uncle Pete and Aunty Tish in Brevent. Mummy, Daddy and Oliver wanted to practice a bit more on the blue slope, but I wanted to do something a bit more exciting.
This Christmas I went skiing in Chamonix with Uncle Pete and Aunty Tish. We arrived on the Sunday before Christmas and spent the first day at Planards to get our ski legs back.
After the ice came the powder… no Nigella jokes here.
We have long neglected the wonderful facilities of the Canmore Nordic Centre – pisted cross country runs of up to 30Km.
This year we have gate-crashed my sister’s Christmas holiday and joined them for skiing in Chamonix.
We’d come to Chamonix with the objective of climbing Mont Blanc on ski. But, the weather hasn’t really been on our side – we’ve had big dumps of fresh snow, thick cloud on the mountains, hot temperatures, and consequent massive slushy avalanches. However, on Monday morning we got all excited when, from Chamonix, we spied …
