Skiing Archives - The Snowalker https://www.thesnowalker.com/category/skiing/ One more mountain line Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:51:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.thesnowalker.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Snowalker-logo-mountain-bw-2-1-32x32.jpg Skiing Archives - The Snowalker https://www.thesnowalker.com/category/skiing/ 32 32 90835253 The Great Railway Journey – A Sustainable Ski Holiday In The Alps https://www.thesnowalker.com/2023/05/03/the-great-railway-journey-a-sustainable-ski-holiday-in-the-alps/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2023/05/03/the-great-railway-journey-a-sustainable-ski-holiday-in-the-alps/#respond Wed, 03 May 2023 08:23:58 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=2889 “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. […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2023/05/03/the-great-railway-journey-a-sustainable-ski-holiday-in-the-alps/feed/ 0 2889 Review: Handjob Gloves For Skiing https://www.thesnowalker.com/2023/03/27/review-handjob-gloves-for-skiing/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2023/03/27/review-handjob-gloves-for-skiing/#respond Mon, 27 Mar 2023 11:55:45 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=2834 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 […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2023/03/27/review-handjob-gloves-for-skiing/feed/ 0 2834 ZAG Chamonix  – the pioneering ski brand´s long way to success https://www.thesnowalker.com/2023/02/06/zag-chamonix-the-pioneering-ski-brands-long-way-to-success/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2023/02/06/zag-chamonix-the-pioneering-ski-brands-long-way-to-success/#respond Mon, 06 Feb 2023 11:44:42 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=2782 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 […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2023/02/06/zag-chamonix-the-pioneering-ski-brands-long-way-to-success/feed/ 0 2782 Hilaree Nelson – Skiing above the clouds https://www.thesnowalker.com/2022/09/28/hilaree-nelson-skiing-above-the-clouds/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2022/09/28/hilaree-nelson-skiing-above-the-clouds/#respond Wed, 28 Sep 2022 10:22:27 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=2758 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 […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2022/09/28/hilaree-nelson-skiing-above-the-clouds/feed/ 0 2758 PUSU Skis – Bringing Finnish ski building tradition in to the 21st century https://www.thesnowalker.com/2022/09/12/pusu-skis-bringing-finnish-ski-building-tradition-in-to-the-21st-century/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2022/09/12/pusu-skis-bringing-finnish-ski-building-tradition-in-to-the-21st-century/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:01:14 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=2713 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 […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2022/09/12/pusu-skis-bringing-finnish-ski-building-tradition-in-to-the-21st-century/feed/ 0 2713 Vagabond skier with a mission – Ahmet Dadali´s journey from N.Y. into the big mountains https://www.thesnowalker.com/2021/04/04/vagabond-skier-with-a-mission-ahmet-dadalis-journey-from-n-y-into-the-big-mountains/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2021/04/04/vagabond-skier-with-a-mission-ahmet-dadalis-journey-from-n-y-into-the-big-mountains/#respond Sun, 04 Apr 2021 17:39:37 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=2307 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 […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2021/04/04/vagabond-skier-with-a-mission-ahmet-dadalis-journey-from-n-y-into-the-big-mountains/feed/ 0 2307 Sustainability, mass tourism and the cult of the real skier https://www.thesnowalker.com/2020/08/31/can-mass-tourism-scale-ski-resort-actually-be-more-sustainable-than-small-ski-areas/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2020/08/31/can-mass-tourism-scale-ski-resort-actually-be-more-sustainable-than-small-ski-areas/#respond Mon, 31 Aug 2020 06:18:06 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=2116 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 […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2020/08/31/can-mass-tourism-scale-ski-resort-actually-be-more-sustainable-than-small-ski-areas/feed/ 0 2116 The Digital Skiing Exerience https://www.thesnowalker.com/2020/03/26/the-digital-skiing-exerience/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2020/03/26/the-digital-skiing-exerience/#respond Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:21:34 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=1887 ”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 […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2020/03/26/the-digital-skiing-exerience/feed/ 0 1887 The North Face Futurelight Story https://www.thesnowalker.com/2020/02/26/the-north-face-futurelight-story/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2020/02/26/the-north-face-futurelight-story/#respond Wed, 26 Feb 2020 18:30:27 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=1855  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 […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2020/02/26/the-north-face-futurelight-story/feed/ 0 1855 B.A.M. Pindung – the story of the Bavarian freeride binding https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/11/18/b-a-m-pindung-the-story-of-the-bavarian-freeride-binding/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/11/18/b-a-m-pindung-the-story-of-the-bavarian-freeride-binding/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:39:26 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=1836 We´re sitting on sofas made out of pallets in a wooden ex-warehouse building in Oberaching, a small town with 13 inhabitants, some 15 km south of Munich, the capital of Bavaria. On my left is a workbench, but instead of a state-of-the-art espresso machine, standing behind is a row of […]

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