Travel Archives - The Snowalker https://www.thesnowalker.com/category/travel/ One more mountain line Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:38:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.thesnowalker.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Snowalker-logo-mountain-bw-2-1-32x32.jpg Travel Archives - The Snowalker https://www.thesnowalker.com/category/travel/ 32 32 90835253 Discovering mountain hut culture in Innsbruck, Austria https://www.thesnowalker.com/2025/06/02/discovering-mountain-hut-culture-in-innsbruck-austria/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2025/06/02/discovering-mountain-hut-culture-in-innsbruck-austria/#respond Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:24:43 +0000 https://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=2933 It all starts with the Alpine Clubs   Words and photos: Jaakko Järvensivu For years I had been a member of the Austrian Alpine Club, or Österreichische Alpenverein, paying the annual fee of 69 euros, mostly due to the extensive (up to 25 000 euros) global rescue fee coverage, included in […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2025/06/02/discovering-mountain-hut-culture-in-innsbruck-austria/feed/ 0 2933 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 Good times & deep lines at the Mimmi Freek´End in Pyhä, Lapland https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/10/27/good-times-deep-lines-at-the-mimmi-freekend-in-pyha-lapland/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/10/27/good-times-deep-lines-at-the-mimmi-freekend-in-pyha-lapland/#respond Sun, 27 Oct 2019 12:41:31 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=1729 From above, our group of skiers and snowboarders looks like a slowly moving pearl string necklace, as we navigate our way through snow-covered thin spruce trees to the Karhunjuomalampi wilderness hut, following the ski track laid by our guide Katja Heikkinen. The surrounding Pyhä National Park has received a foot-deep […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/10/27/good-times-deep-lines-at-the-mimmi-freekend-in-pyha-lapland/feed/ 0 1729 Following the road less travelled into Russian Karelia https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/09/02/following-the-road-less-travelled-into-russian-karelia/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/09/02/following-the-road-less-travelled-into-russian-karelia/#respond Mon, 02 Sep 2019 08:37:10 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=1619  The border formalities on the Finnish side go smoothly, but on the Russian side the bureaucratic Soviet influence is still evident: I have to fill several small entry forms and then queue with them from one counter to the next. As I am crossing the border by car I have […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/09/02/following-the-road-less-travelled-into-russian-karelia/feed/ 0 1619 Discovering the developing mountain biking scene in the Gastein Valley, Austria https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/05/04/mountain-biking-in-the-gastein-valley/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/05/04/mountain-biking-in-the-gastein-valley/#respond Fri, 04 May 2018 10:24:08 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=699 The water cascades down a steep rocky path with a roaring sound and disappears under a stone bridge, it forms a near vertical waterfall on the other side, before finally reaching the valley floor some few hundred meters lower. The surrounding Belle Époque style village of Bad Gastein in Austria´s Salzburg state […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/05/04/mountain-biking-in-the-gastein-valley/feed/ 0 699 A campervan road trip to Lapland https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/03/21/a-grand-tour-of-lapland-part-1/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/03/21/a-grand-tour-of-lapland-part-1/#respond Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:54:20 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=648 As the summer was approaching my girlfriend Laura and I were busy sketching plans for our first road-trip with the newly purchased Volkswagen T3 Syncro. We had already roughly decided on the route, starting off from Helsinki, heading towards the western and north-western parts of Finnish Lapland, then crossing the […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/03/21/a-grand-tour-of-lapland-part-1/feed/ 0 648 The skier´s guide to the Japanese powder galaxy https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/02/07/the-skiers-guide-to-the-japanese-ski-galaxy-6-things-to-know-before-you-go/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/02/07/the-skiers-guide-to-the-japanese-ski-galaxy-6-things-to-know-before-you-go/#respond Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:27:36 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=292 The combination of a unique culture, rich food tradition, local hospitality and one of the world’s best snow records has in recent years made Japan a stable in ski destination bucket lists. Japan has hundreds of distinctively different ski areas on two islands, which can make planning your first trip […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/02/07/the-skiers-guide-to-the-japanese-ski-galaxy-6-things-to-know-before-you-go/feed/ 0 292 Tracing the roots of Japanese skiing in Nozawa Onsen https://www.thesnowalker.com/2017/02/08/tracing-the-roots-of-japanese-skiing-in-nozawa-onsen/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2017/02/08/tracing-the-roots-of-japanese-skiing-in-nozawa-onsen/#respond Wed, 08 Feb 2017 09:56:59 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=343 It is two a.m. and dark outside. I watch heavy wet snowflakes gently floating down in the halo of a solitary street lamp behind the tinted glass window of our traditional ryokan style room. Unable to sleep, I get up and quietly push open the sliding door with the paper panels, trying […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2017/02/08/tracing-the-roots-of-japanese-skiing-in-nozawa-onsen/feed/ 0 343 On the Myoko Express https://www.thesnowalker.com/2016/11/09/on-the-myoko-express/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2016/11/09/on-the-myoko-express/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2016 12:46:17 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=244 After spending a sleepless night in a hotel situated in the middle of Kabukicho´s red light district in Shinjuku we headed for the busy Tokyo Station. Sleep-deprived, we pulled our ski bags through a constant stream of people trying to read the signs written mostly in Japanese. In the end we managed to find […]

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