Monthly Archives: December 2011
24/12/11: Sledging fun on the Gadget Show and in Country Life
Top television viewing this week for me was the Gadget Show’s film for Channel Five, in which Pollyanna Woodward, one of the presenters, tested 20 toboggans at Tamworth Snowcome (see it here – http://tinyurl.com/ce9m762). I was especially interested because my … Continue reading
Filed under Gear, Link to film, Transport
23/12/11: Nine people evacuated as Rifugio Guglielmina burns down
The Rifugio Guglielmina, a historic mountain hut high above the ski village of Alagna, in the Italian alps, was destroyed by fire in the early hours of yesterday. Nine people sleeping there, including several staff, escaped unharmed, but high winds … Continue reading
Filed under Food and drink, Italy, Off-piste, Ski touring, Transport
16/12/11 – Winter campervanning in Fernie in Fall-Line magazine
Two of the most brilliant people I met last winter were Bethan and Nick Lowe, who spent a ski season living in a campervan in Fernie, a great resort in British Columbia, Canada. Happily for them, it was a fantastic … Continue reading
Filed under Link to article by Yolanda Carslaw
15/12/11 – Interlaken’s yodel festival in Songlines magazine
Regular readers of morethanskiing may recall how overexcited I was in June about visiting Switzerland’s biggest yodelling festival – an event that takes place every three years and draws crowds of 200,000 – more than Glastonbury. This excitement turned out … Continue reading
Filed under Link to article by Yolanda Carslaw, Music, Switzerland
9/12/11 – Why this winter’s jumpers are made for the Alps
I’m no fashion expert, but I’ve detected a ski-chic theme to high-street clothing this winter. I’m talking Fair Isle meets Norwegian meets Austro-Swiss. The patterns this look involves appear not only on predictable garments such as hats, scarves and gloves, … Continue reading
5/12/11 – Snowheads: meet the virtual crowd who turn real on the slopes
I’m not much of a technophile, but I’m starting to see the light after a week on holiday with the good folk from snowHeads, an online community of nearly 28,000, which organises five or six “bashes” (ski trips) each winter. … Continue reading
3/12/11 – Something is falling from the sky
Tiny flakes were swirling around the top of the Grande Motte yesterday afternoon. It wasn’t quite snow, but it wasn’t wind displacement either. It was a kind of wafty dust that barely settled on my jacket, and later on, in … Continue reading
Filed under France
