freeskiing Archives - The Snowalker https://www.thesnowalker.com/tag/freeskiing/ One more mountain line Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:39:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.thesnowalker.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Snowalker-logo-mountain-bw-2-1-32x32.jpg freeskiing Archives - The Snowalker https://www.thesnowalker.com/tag/freeskiing/ 32 32 90835253 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 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 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 The Blizzard of Aaahh´s – How the underground rebels saved skiing in the 80´s. https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/09/03/the-blizzard-of-aaahhs-how-the-underground-rebels-saved-skiing-in-the-80s/ https://www.thesnowalker.com/2019/09/03/the-blizzard-of-aaahhs-how-the-underground-rebels-saved-skiing-in-the-80s/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2019 09:01:06 +0000 http://www.thesnowalker.com/?p=1654 It´s a cold winter day in 1988 and our gym teacher has decided that instead of playing outdoor ice hockey we would watch a movie instead. The class is packed with runny-nosed 15-year-old kids watching skeptically as the moustache wearing middle-aged ski coach sets up the VHS system. It takes […]

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