Spring is well and truly here and Easter is upon us, so it’s worth reviewing the state of the resorts to see just what is still worth going out for. Follow the links to get more detailed resort information and an update on conditions. The good news is that, despite a very warm March, there [...]
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Some old friends from the Hellfins Scuba Diving Club have been on a week’s ski holiday in St Anton, so I thought I would pop across to see them. Surprisingly it is quicker to get to St Anton by car from Basel than it is to get to some resorts in Switzerland. The road trip is a doddle, [...]
Baselworld is the world’s largest and most prestigious watch fair. It’s almost 2000 exhibitors receives over 100,00 visitors on the nearly 2 million square feet of exhibition space. This year it follows sharply on the back of Basler Fasnacht, the largest of the Swiss carnivals, and as always it co-incides with the ski season. I’m a [...]
January 2, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Accommodation, Features, Graubünden, Transportation
Filed under: Accommodation, Features, Graubünden, Transportation
St Moritz has a glitzy reputation, but it also has some awesome skiing. The main resort area is Corviglia, which has 160km of piste between 1730 and 3057m, mostly cruisy reds with a respectable amount of off-piste, largely around Piz Nair, and the old Olympic downhill run from Corviglia itself. You can access the runs from [...]
I wouldn’t dream of letting my kids out on the slopes without a ski helmet, but when i first learnt to ski literally no one wore them. Over the last ten years there has been a huge increase in the number of both adults and children wearing ski helmets when taking to the slopes for [...]
A beautiful sunny Mayday brought the close to the regular winter sports season in Switzerland. Diovalezza in the Engadin and the glaciers at Engelberg-Titlis, Glacier 3000 and Zermatt still provide some limited pistes, but to all extents and purposes the season is over. Summer skiing and snowboarding has attractions, but you need to get up [...]
What is the best ski and snowboard destination in the world? A tough question. If the snow or weather are poor, even the best resorts will struggle to provide as good an experience as a smaller resort with clear skies and powder snow. Fighting with herds of other skiers to get on the lifts, or get [...]
The weather system over the Alps falls into several distinct regions, where typically most resorts in one region share the same overall weather. However, the unpredicatability of weather systems as they pass over the Alps plus the effect of micro-climates wreck havoc with many forecasts. I have found the reports from Snow-Forecast.com to be amongst the [...]
April 11, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
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Social Tagging: ski sonwboard maps switzerland
Filed under: Features
Social Tagging: ski sonwboard maps switzerland
Piste maps are fine, but they rarely give enough information for the more adventurous skier or snowboarder. Increasingly freeride areas are shown on piste maps, but the more adventurous freeride areas don’t figure. Which is a shame, because there are many relatively safe freeride areas away from the main pistes that can be undertaken without [...]
Ski Sunday abandons the season in February, the FIS World Cup season climaxes in March (this season at Lenzerheide, on 20th March) and most of the continent stows away skis and snowboards after Easter. So what for those who want to prolong the season? is there decent skiing anywhere through April and May? The simple [...]
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