Skiing

Going skiing should be a pleasure, not a slog

Sunday, 17 January 2010

Simon O'Hagan just wanted an easy journey, a pretty resort and a choice of manageable runs. He found it all in Paradiski

Forgotten slopes: Why has Adelboden has drifted off the British radar?

Saturday, 16 January 2010

While many of us head to Switzerland each season, somehow the pretty village of Adelboden in the Bernese Oberland has remained off the mainstream radar, despite an impressive history for British skiers.

America's backwoods ski resorts offer new challenges

Saturday, 16 January 2010

The real beating heart of the US ski industry has always been resorts that cling to America's steeper mountains.

Peter Lunn: 'I was furious if I didn't fall'

Saturday, 16 January 2010

Peter Lunn shares the ups and downs of his long life in skiing with Adam Ruck

Warmth and cuisine make up for Pyrenees' lack altitude and plentiful snow

Saturday, 16 January 2010

A scene from White Christmas flashed through my head as the train sped through France towards the Pyrenees. Just as Bing Crosby and chums sang in anticipation of snow in Vermont, I was hoping against hope that the forecast for rain in the Pyrenees would be wrong and that white fluffy stuff would magically appear in its place. Like Bing, I would be disappointed. You can't take plentiful snow for granted in the Pyrenees. It hasn't got the altitude and enviable snow record of the Alps. But, for the average visitor, it has ways of making up for that.

Ski gear to get excited about: It's time to update your armoury for the new season

Saturday, 16 January 2010

With thte new season upon us, it's time to update your armoury

So, where are the brakes? Roadtesting the latest incarnation of the snow bike

Saturday, 16 January 2010

It felt like the stuff of nightmares. There I was, going along on my bike, when I realised I was careering for the edge of a cliff. So I looked down at the handlebars, only to find that there were no brakes.

Ski news: Gatwick airport in disarray

Saturday, 16 January 2010

Skate expectations: Head to Norway to master skate-skiing's V-shaped gait

Saturday, 16 January 2010

Like many cross-country skiers I have long basked in a feeling of superiority over my downhill rivals. Speed? Pah! Who needs it? It is surely more worthy to go under your own steam. But recently, to my annoyance, I have noticed that I am forever being overtaken by other cross-country skiers. They are practitioners of the modern skate-skiing or "freestyle" technique, whereas I (like most British cross-country skiers) adopt the "classic" technique – my skis kept parallel by grooves cut in the snow.

Meet my mountain man: How ski guides can help you get more out of your snow expedition

Saturday, 16 January 2010

Klaus Jehle is no ordinary ski instructor. In St Anton, he has near mythical status. Regular clients book him by name and guard him jealously. In fact, people arrange their holidays around Jehle 's availability. He's so good that he teaches the course that already very good instructors have to pass to qualify for the top level of Austrian ski instructors. If this were football, he would be coaching Sir Alex Ferguson to coach. And he makes fantastic honey.