14 June 2013

Our Guide to the Milky Way ski area

When you go skiing, you want a place that keeps you busy. This is exactly what the Milky Way achieves. With 400km of ski area you have access to various resorts so there’s no way you’ll find yourself staring down the same run time and time again (apart from the long, tree-lined Red 11, which [...]

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6 June 2013

My ski holiday – by Ella, 10

Ella Davis is ten years old. She loves art, plays the keyboard and has been skiing since she was three years old. Her favourite band is One Direction and if she had to eat one thing for the rest of her life it would be pizza. Here are the highlights of her family ski holiday [...]

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22 May 2013

’666 The number of the piste’ – DSUK Skiathon

Maybe I am cynical, but these days raising money for charity is hard.Once upon a time (when you were a little school kid) all you had to do was put on a sticky label with a number on it, run around a field and all your friends would sponsor you 10p a lap. But this [...]

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17 May 2013

A Beginner’s Guide to Ski/Snowboard Holidays

For anyone who’s skied or boarded before, a winter sports holiday seems like second nature. Wind in your hair, speeding effortlessly down the slopes, twisting through the trees… but what if you’ve never been before? Is it really that simple? Here, to dispel the myths and inform expectations, is our guide to ski and snowboard [...]

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10 May 2013

Beginners – Are you scared of skiing and boarding? You should be.

When I speak to people who haven’t been skiing or snowboarding before I hear the word fear a lot. They talk about a fear of falling over and of hurting themselves, a fear of not enjoying it, of not being able to stop or of going down the slopes too fast. But the good news [...]

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