Skiing Reviews

WHY PRE-CHRISTMAS? Well, it isn’t just that greedy snowboarders & skiers such as myself are too impatient to wait until the season proper, which traditionally begins after Christmas…or not entirely, anyway. But there’s nothing lovelier than a White Christmas, in a scenic location, and few locations are lovelier or more scenic than some of the ...

I moved to Denver Colorado 29 years ago. My wife and I were living in Ohio, where we were both originally from. For some reason, we always thought living in Colorado would be great, even though we had never visited there. In 1971 we took up skiing. The next year we took our first ski vacation to Colorado. The following year we took our second ...

Now what I am about to do here is write about skiing. Writing about sports is always a bit of a grey area for me and rarely will I write on topics in sport that affect me in any way, for example I do not see what is so wonderful about football. But forget about football, this is a completely different section, lets all learn about the strange and ...

Many thousands of us are packing our bags, as I write, and are about to embark on the annual trek to the mountains for the half term skiing week. Unfortunately we will have to contend with the worst snow record for 40 years. February is normally reliable for heavy snowfalls, but not since 1964, have the pistes of France, Switzerland and Italy been ...

Having recently moved to a litll known town Idaho State, USA, it soon became apparent that between november and april i wouldn't see a blade of grass, period. When i moved away from my home town in the north of england on the 11th Dec 2001, and arrived at my new home 25 hours later, i was amazed at what i saw, there was about 2 feet of snow ...

Skiing is an excellent sport that does not actually have to be partaken in during the winter, as we know it. You see, in places like Andorra and the French Alps, the mountains are good for skiing until around late March time, but I would recommend you go between December and March, but February is a good month time. Skiing isn’t as ...

Skiing spread to other parts of the world and is now done primarily at ski resorts on specially cut trails. A variety of lifts carry skiers up the hill. The most common lift in North America is the chairlift, which is a series of seats suspended from a motor-driven cable that pulls the seats up the mountain. Various surface lifts, which pull ...

Skiing, winter sport in which people move across snow-covered terrain with long, narrow, specially designed boards called skis attached to their feet. Although people have been skiing for about 5,000 years, the sport did not become a popular form of recreation until the 20th century. Millions of people worldwide enjoy skiing for its exhilaration, ...

Skiing is an excellent sport that does not actually have to be partaken in during the winter, as we know it. You see, in places like Andorra and the French Alps, the mountains are good for skiing until around late March time, but I would recommend you go between December and March, but February is a good month time. Skiing isn’t as ...

Unlike many other sports skiing is for everyone. You can't define skiing in one sentence. It can be percieved as many different experiences. When I went on my first skiing holiday to America I was very reluctant and I wasn't really looking forward to skiing. This is because 9 weeks prior to my holiday, on my second lesson on a ...

I reluctantly went skiing in January - my fiancee's Austrian and a capable skiier, and a close friend is crazy about it, so I thought I'd at least see what all the fuss is about, and am glad I did, despite my regret at wasting 5 days' valuable holiday in doing so. Because, people, skiing is CRAP. So read on as I debunk the most ...

I hope what I’m about to say makes you think about taking up skiing, because it's a fantastic hobby and sport to get into and it defiantly worth trying Now before we go anywhere let me tell you, you don't really need a high level of fitness, but for your own benefit it is well worth you improving the level, as the climates ...

Well not exactly the Alps, but if you fancy trying skiing on 'real snow' why not try the 'Snowdome' in Tamworth. This was Britain's first indoor ski-slope and was opened about 3-4 years ago. The slope is about 150 m long and has a dog leg at the top. It is not massive and good skiiers would soon get bored, however if ...

Having done nearly ten weeks skiing to date I thought this might be a good time to write an opinion on some of the do’s and don’ts of skiing. This has the potential for being useful twofold. Others may read it and benefit, particularly beginners as I’ll try and outline common pitfalls to be avoided. More importantly for me, at ...

This opinion is directed at beginner skiers (just for the record). For you who have not experienced the joy of skiing before then you are missing out. Skiing is a fantastic, social sport that gives you the satisfaction of getting down a mountain and also giving you the adrenaline rush when you do it at speed. I have only been ...

From some of the resorts I have been to in Europe I have to say the ones in France are the best. Alpe d'Huez is one of my favourites. It has got the longest black run in Europe (so I hear) and the villas are great as well. I am off to Canada soon to somewhere called 'Whistler', not sure what that is like. Anyone heard of it?? It is ...

The Dolomiti Superski Area is probably the biggest ski area in the world. One lift pass is valid for about 450 (four hundred and fifty) lifts. Not all of them are linked together. Dolomiti Superski is an association of 12 ski areas in the Italian Alps. In each one of them you can buy lift tickets just for that area, but I would not recommend ...

You would not even think twice about hurtling down a mountain at 50 mph with two planks of wood on your feet - would you? Well, no, anyone who's tried it doesn't. The inherent absurdity of what is probably one of the most popular sports in the world seems completely lost on most skiers, and frankly, it is one of the BEST experiences in ...

This has to be one the best and most exhilarating winter sports around. The speed and the wind in your face adds to the excitement of hurtling down the slopes at up to 100mph. If you haven't been skiing before then try it. The instructors speak good English (unless your in a French beginners class) and are good at their job, they make the ...

I was heading for the chair-lift once more, when I realised the time. It was rapidly approaching 3:30pm and I wasn't too sure of the connecting pistes back. Allowing for queues, and a possible wrong turn, I was leaving it a bit fine. I had passed two skiers on the way down, who also appeared indecisive. I looked back to note their ...