Laax Archives - The Snowalker https://www.thesnowalker.com/tag/laax-2/ 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 Laax Archives - The Snowalker https://www.thesnowalker.com/tag/laax-2/ 32 32 90835253 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 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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