Stories
Features on skiing and snowboarding from the snow magazine team. Find out where is best to go, what resorts are really like and how to make the most of your ski holiday.
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Robert Stewart explores the largest snowsports area in New Zealand which is also an active volcano – perhaps not an...
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If you’re looking for a room with a view, this is the place to head for. Situated at a height of 2,877 –metres on the...
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Here’s a secret! A ski resort half the price of the French Alps, where the longest queue even in school holidays is a...
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Austria is rivalling France as the first-choice destination for many British skiers. But does that work for families?...
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Tired of the Alps? We have one word for you: Norway. This is not skiing as you know it. Norway does things a little...
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One phrase you don’t expect to hear while skiing or boarding is ‘Gee up!’ Unless you decide to get towed along by a...
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It’s one thing hitting the slopes with experienced skiers, but taking your non-skiing girlfriend and her non-skiing...
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A trip to St Moritz proves to throw up some surprising contradictions, a first time experience of the UPS ski system...
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Snow loves resorts that punch above their weight. Robert Stewart picks Kuhtai – the highest resort in Austria – to be...
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Away from its big-name hills, Alberta has a quieter, hidden side, as Snow’s backcountry boarder Pete Coombs discovered...
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Italy’s most famous circuit is a must-ski of any trip to the Dolomites, centrepiece of the South Tyrol, but there is...
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We asked Rob Sanderson, joint founder, of RTM Snowboard School in Les 3 Vallees France, what it’s really like to be a...
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We take a look at some of the French Alps best snowsure resorts
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With all the brouhaha surrounding the Winter Olympics it’s quite possible you won’t have heard of Britain’s...
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To us here at Snow, skiing and snowboarding is more than just a holiday - it’s our passion. Some would say our...