Cool Down and Reminisce over the Wonders of Ski Ballet

There was a brief time in winter Olympic history when athletes would zip into their snow suites, strap on their skis, cue the music, and dance to victory. Ski ballet is like the love child of figure skating and skiing. Routines lasted for two minutes, and athletes competed alone or in pairs. The result was…

How to Look Cool Skiing

The DOs and DON’Ts of Achieving the Seasoned Skier’s Confident Swagger DO: Act like you’re excited to go skiing. Even if you’re a total amateur and likely to break a leg before the end of the trip, try to look perky and enthusiastic at the top of the slopes before you possibly plunge to your…

The Twelve Cozy Cabins of Christmas

Grab some hot cocoa, it’s time to dream about the cosiest of cabins you could be curling up in over the twelve days of Christmas. Speaking of which, have you found your nearest and dearest the perfect gift? How about the promise of a magical winter getaway…?! Just a thought. Shall we cue “Twelve Days…

Forget the Chalet, Cozy Up at the top of AirBnB’s 200 Ft Historic Ski Jump

It was the site of the 1952 Winter Olympics and still sees some of the most daredevil ski jumpers from all over the world flying off its ramp into the Nordic sky. But at the very top of the superstructure, where competitors would anxiously await their take-off in front of up to 30,000 spectators, the little elves of…

Greetings from Africa’s Premier Ski Resort

Ski season is upon us, but unlike our other vacations, where we strive to find the less beaten path, challenge ourselves to try different off-grid adventures and wander across lust-worthy unknown lands, why do we always feel the need to go to the same old ski resorts that first taught us how to snow plough down the…

Skiing in Montmartre, Paris

It’s become a bit of a tradition every time it snows in Paris, that you’ll see a group of ski-crazy Parisians boarding the gondola up to the Sacré Coeur with skis and ski boots in tow. It’s not exactly the Alps, but see how they get on… [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GkLRgbNIr8]

So in Sweden, McDonald’s has a Ski-Thru Restaurant

“Lovin’ it” or hatin’ it, McDonald’s is a permanent fixture of the modern high street, king of the highway drive-throughs, pioneer of the fast food take-over. But did you expect it to become a part of your ski run? At “McSki,” located in the popular Swedish ski resort of Lindvallen, about 450 kilometers northwest of Stockholm,…

The Ski Lodge Party, 1942

It’s a glorious day for skiing (and hiking up the hill) in Mount Hood, Oregon, so let’s join the Timberline Lodge Ski Club circa 1942… Off to a stylish start with a smooth mount on the chair lift… Chair lift blanket chic. Check out those ski goggles. But as the weather conditions begin to deteriorate,…

Skiing down Five Floors of an Abandoned Building

Talk about skiing off-piste! Combining one of my favourite sports with our fascination for abandoned real estate, professional skier Logan Imlach tackled a less traditional terrain– the 1960s abandoned ‘Bucker building’ in Alaska. Once called ‘the City under one roof’, it was used as an army base, in anticipation of a Soviet invasion during the…