On Lindsay Vonn and weird double standards in pro skiing

"Ah, he's cool, but he wants to be Bode Miller..." is a phrase I've heard more than once. It's generally about that one friend whose mad into GS turns and really competitive with you. Bode Miller is a great ski racer, but there are 16 men and women who have more FIS World Cup race …

The Future of Skiing is Superlight

Can you imagine being able to ski without feeling like you've got a pair of bricks strapped to your feet? My ski boots certainly aren't the heaviest in the world, but they're a long way from the type of super light Alpine/Touring boots offered by Tecnica for the last few seasons.  It's been announced recently that Fischer …

Warren Miller: The ski film giant’s 5 top films

Warren Miller was snow sports institution. He documented ski bums, bunnies and novelty acts alike in his 70 odd years of making movies. Of course, by the time he skied his last run, the guy had spent decades behaving like a crotchety old man (as was his right, as a crotchety old man). As you …

The 4 main categories ski injuries fall into

It can be pretty easy to forget that skiing is an extreme sport, amongst all the cosy restaurants, well groomed pistes and safety measures. It's easy to forget, that is, right up until you do yourself an injury.  As might've been obvious from the above, I am currently suffering my first injury of the season …

There’s a ton of snow in the Alps; Candide Thovex hits the Great Wall of China instead

It's set to be a record-breakingly snowy winter for the Alps; more than a few ski areas have been cut off, or else they've been completely shut down for days due to avalanche risk. It's been an insane season, honestly. Not quite as insane as the newest ski video from Candide Thovex though... The new …

Learning to love everybody’s least favourite ski lifts

If you were to grade the difficulty of each type of ski lift, the humble magic carpet would be a green. Cable cars and gondolas (with skis inside) would be solid blues, while the chairlift and gondolas (with skis outside) graded red. Chairlifts can be pretty tricky to ski onto and off, occasionally they'll catch …

What to do when it’s too snowy to ski

This is about as far away from the sort of problems we were dealing with last year as it's possible to get, and yet I'm still sat here drinking coffee in a half empty ski bar instead of hitting the slopes. The reason, you ask? Everything is shut. Again. Actually, not everything is shut; I …

The Handy Ski Bunny Midlayer Guide

Primaloft. Synchilla. Down. DWR coating. Sleeves. No sleeves. There are a thousand things that need to be thought about when it comes to midlayers. Honestly, until I started wearing a shell jacket instead of a fully insulated number, I didn't really get what the big deal was. I always kind of thought that if you …

Holy cow, is it snowing in Val d’Isere right now!

They're calling these storms 'once in a generation', and oh boy is the Espace Killy ski area seeing some killer snowfall right now. In the last 24 hours, over a metre of snow fell. To almost nobody's surprise, today the resort is closed while they try to make it safe to ski.  It always surprises …

3 things you’ll find when you move to a ski town

Moving to a ski town can be a bit of a spur of the moment decision. More often than not, it comes at the end of a long period of day dreaming from behind a desk. That's how it happened for me, at least.  This time last year, I was working for a respected Alpine …