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Skiing, Travel

The Great Railway Journey – A Sustainable Ski Holiday In The Alps

“Out of service” the three words you don´t want to see plastered on the hotel elevator door on the fifth floor, in the early hours, when you´re in a rush to get down with a full ski bag, several pieces of luggage and two kids under the age of five. […]

Reviews, Skiing

Review: Handjob Gloves For Skiing

On choosing ski gloves There are basically two schools of thoughts when it comes to choosing your ski gloves: one emphasising a technical Goretex glove with a removable liner and the other preferring a simple work glove. For as long as I remember I have been part of the first […]

Skiing, Uncategorized

ZAG Chamonix  – the pioneering ski brand´s long way to success

In 2001, a snowboard shaper in France was working on a ski design, which was year´s ahead of it´s time. The ski evolved into an influential brand, which is now, 20 years later, trying to follow the successful path laid by one if it´s disciples from Chamonix.   Words and […]

Skiing

Hilaree Nelson – Skiing above the clouds

The Himalayas, Nepal, fall 2018 It´s the morning of the last day of September and high above the clouds on the sunny top of Mount Lhotse at 8 516 m, two people are carefully putting their skis on. It´s a mere stone´s throw to Mount Everest, the highest mountain on the […]

Skiing, Uncategorized

PUSU Skis – Bringing Finnish ski building tradition in to the 21st century

As news about an upcoming  ski brand manufacturing innovative, award-winning skis in a farm, somewhere amidst the forests of Central Finland started to circle, it was time to investigate.    I´m standing in the parking lot, in front of a traditional Finnish barn, in the heart of the country´s lake district. It´s […]

Reviews, Road / Camping

Western Soul teepee tent – review

The variety of different tent options available today can be puzzling. While back in the day, you might have had the choice between a dome and a tunnel tent, now there are pop up and inflatable tents offering instant pitch, geodesic tents, and even tents designed to be pitched on […]

Skiing

Vagabond skier with a mission – Ahmet Dadali´s journey from N.Y. into the big mountains

It’s the beginning of December and thanks to a storm, that has brought 80 cm´s of fresh snow in the last 48 hours, Laax Ski Resort in the Graubünden Canton in Switzerland, has just opened it´s lifts. I’m standing above the treeline on a knoll, focusing on a skier above […]

Skiing

Sustainability, mass tourism and the cult of the real skier

The lore of real skiers and small ski areas that rock   Little ski areas rock, the mom-and-pop owned operations are keeping it real, saving the sport of skiing from McDonaldization by the evil empire, that the big ski resort corporations present. Although exaggerated a little, this is the lore […]

Skiing

The Digital Skiing Exerience

”The internet and gaming are our biggest threats”. The quote was made in a 2013 by Mike Douglas in a ski resort marketing website´s interview, where the freeski pioneer and producer of Salomon Freeski TV was asked to name the biggest challenge for the ski industry in the next coming 10 […]

Skiing, Uncategorized

The North Face Futurelight Story

 The Himalayas, Nepal, fall 2018   It´s the morning of the last day of September and high above the clouds on the sunny top of Mount Lhotse at 8 516 m, two people are carefully putting their skis on. It´s a mere stone´s throw to Mount Everest, the highest mountain on […]