Uncategorized Archives - The Snowalker https://www.thesnowalker.com/category/uncategorized/ One more mountain line Wed, 08 Feb 2023 07:50:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.thesnowalker.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Snowalker-logo-mountain-bw-2-1-32x32.jpg Uncategorized Archives - The Snowalker https://www.thesnowalker.com/category/uncategorized/ 32 32 90835253 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 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 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 From Lapland To The Today Show – The Club A Story https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/12/21/from-lapland-to-the-today-show-the-club-a-story/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/12/21/from-lapland-to-the-today-show-the-club-a-story/#respond Fri, 21 Dec 2018 15:08:51 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=922 It´s the summer of 1984 and Barry Levinson, a young college business graduate from Colorado, is driving a rental car in Lapland towards Kemijärvi, a small provincial town in eastern Lapland, less than an hour´s drive from the Soviet border. Van Halen´s Jump is playing on the radio. As the […]

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]]> https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/12/21/from-lapland-to-the-today-show-the-club-a-story/feed/ 0 922 Climate Change and the Future of Ski Resorts https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/12/01/climate-change-and-the-future-of-ski-resorts/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2018/12/01/climate-change-and-the-future-of-ski-resorts/#respond Sat, 01 Dec 2018 05:46:39 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=840 28 December 2017: Koli National Park, Finland   It should be a busy ski day after the Christmas holidays, but the lifts and cross-country trails remain closed. The Koli ski resort has given an official warning to stay out of the surrounding forests due to the heavy loads of frozen […]

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