Festival Season: Dancing in Wellies or Ski Boots?
The longest day of the year has come and gone. Usually this milestone marks the start of British summer and the Festival season.
LooKING at Life Skiing Comes First
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Ski Fitness, Pullover Exercise.
Working on core strength, sculpting your abs and testing your lats, this exercise is a ‘Pullover’, that’s ‘Pullover exercise’ not ‘sweater’!
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Skiers vs Snowboarders.
A research company has analysed the habits of the UK’s skiers vs snowboarders to uncover the real differences or similarities between us.
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Very Scary Tree Well; Do Kids Know the Danger?
As you travel on ski lifts through the trees you can often see the immense dangers that tree wells pose to off-piste skiers.
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Avalanche Safety.
I’ve been with guides who have shown me the principles of how to use a transceiver and probe and avalanche safety techniques.
An easy waterfalls HiKING day in Mayrhofen.
We chose a short easy waterfalls hiking route just up the valley near Hippach to fill a couple of hours before going supermarket shopping!
Germknodel Recipe | Giant Plum Dumpling.
Making Germknodel will never replicate the experience of eating one on the mountain, but if you are miles from Austria, give it a go.
Two Minute Tooth Brush Tone Up | Left Windmill Arm Stretches.
Start windmill arm stretches as part of my ‘two minute tooth brush tone up’ series, today; twice a day, every day.
Post Season Ski Fitness.
Whilst the sun is shining make sure you improve your ski fitness. If you love skiing, you love the mountains, so enjoy them in the summer too
Veggie Mountain Food – Cheese Fondue.
Cheese Fondue can definitely be the social and culinary highlight of any ski trip, but do you fancy replicating the experience at home?
Eight Reasons to Visit Alpbachtal in the Spring.
With the European ski season over my guest blogger, Clare Hislop in Alpbachtal encourages us to explore her adopted home in the Spring.
Green Ski Resorts: Good or Bad.
The idea of a green ski resort is usually a sign that the snow over. No more; huge numbers of ski resorts are greening to save the planet.
Topfenstrudel Recipe | Cheesecake Pie.
Topfenstrudel is at No.5 in my Top 10 Vegetarian Meals available in Austrian Ski resorts. This version is crispier than the traditional.
D_n’t _e P_sitive, _e _ Neg_tive.
The National Blood Service needs your blood now: If you’ve got the missing A, O or B. I’ve got the O negative.
What’s the Perfect Snow Car?
Come winter and the first signs of snow, the news on every channel in the UK is about snow car chaos with abandoned cars everywhere.
