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Feb
22

Family Fun At Courmayeur

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Family Fun At Courmayeur

If the Winter Olympics have whetted your appetite for skiing and you find yourselves pining for the pistes then there is a bewildering variety of destinations to choose from. Austria, Switzerland and France have become tourist traps with overcrowded slopes and prices to match. My idea of skiing heaven is Italy and this wonderful country provides a range of resorts that cater to all tastes and abilities.

My choice for a family skiing holiday is the resort of Courmayeur. More

Feb
10

Get With The basics: Beginner Snowboard Stuff

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Get With The basics: Beginner Snowboard Stuff

Ok, so you’ve decided you’re going snowboarding for the first time; when you were younger you did a bit of skateboarding, so you should pick it up instantly, right? Not exactly–Although there are many similarities between the two, snowboarding, like anything, has its specifics. Here are a few you need to know before you assault the slopes:

1) Get the board ready: do this somewhere out of the way of high-speed action and anyone with slick moves who looks like More

Feb
10

Riding Blind

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I want to take this opportunity to tell you all about my first black diamond run that I ever did. I was at Sunshine Village in the Rockies of Alberta, which no matter where I go will always be one of my fave resorts, and while I was on the chairlift to the top it started properly blizzarding.

I was still a little bit tentative on the board, as I had just gotten a new one and was really just getting into it, but the fact was that once I go to the top of the hill it was a complete whiteout, so I had to take the first run to come along, which happened to be a black diamond.  So there I was not able to see a thing, yet surviving (albeit quite slowly) the run. It was amazing having to feel the mountain instead of seeing it, and after that I felt that I could take on the world and it was when I really got into snowboarding. So anyone that is just starting out on the board, and don’t really know how to proceed, the best advice that I could give you is to close your eyes, and just let go. In the end the mountain is bigger so don’t fight it, because it always wins.

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