Listen for chants of 'You'll Never Ski Alone' from the Mont Fort cable car in Verbier following the Swiss ski resort's partnership with Liverpool Football Club. ...Read More
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Back in Serre Chevalier for Autumn Cycling & Hiking
This time of year it's decisions, decisions as to what to do to make the most of the weather conditions monitoring the forecast day to day and waiting for the first snow falls of the season...
New Chapter for Skiing With Demons Chris Tomlinson,..
No bacon run, no Land Rover angst and no living with 24-hour party people. In his latest blog, Chris Tomlinson explains his decision to close his Morzine Chalet Project - and go skiing...
When The Going Gets Tough: Racing Up Col du Granon
The Defi du Granon annual running event covering 12.4km and 1000m vertical up the Col du Granon is a race for serious triathletes and trail club runners. Were we mad to take part...?
Folie Douce Hotel Plans For Serre Chevalier Details
The new Folie Douce Hotel complex has revealed more detailed plans for the 1500 bed project opening scheduled for 2020 within champagne-spraying distance of Style Altitude HQ...
Patou Sheep Dog Threat to Walkers in the French Alps?
With wolves in the French Alps now very real and more reports of attacks on sheep, farmers are protecting their flocks using the Patou. But they can be seen as aggressive to summer walkers....
FEATURES
VERBIER SIGNS LIVERPOOL FOOTBALL CLUB
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SNOW FORECAST FOR THE ALPS WINTER 2019. If the ant hills were high in the Alps, in July, and the first week in August was unusually warm, then you can start waxing your powder skis because we're in for another snowy winter...
DAD'S GUIDE TO THE PERFECT FAMILY SKI HOLIDAY. Father of twins, Gavin Baylis, reveals how he survived countless ski holidays with the family ensuring plenty of dad-time for peace and powder...
HIGH NOON FOR SKI RESORTS. It's a pivotal time for resorts balancing the new values of Millennials with traditional expectations of Baby Boomers still in the game, North American ski resorts are responding with contemporary dwellings, night skiing, dating apps and skijoring, trailblazing trends that will affect skiing and snowboarding around the world.
HOW TO BECOME A SKI OR SNOWBOARD INSTRUCTOR. Would you rather be an intern making tea in a city office or an intern skiing or snowboarding in Niseko, Japan? We ask the team at We Are Sno what it takes to train to become a ski or snowboard instructor. (Warning: Reading this could seriously affect your sanity if you're over 30 and stuck in the rat race)...
GEAR AND STYLE
TOO OLD TO SKI? MEET THE POWS, PENSIONERS ON WIDE SKIS
Over the hill? Nope on the hill and off the piste, older skiers are now one of the biggest growth markets for fat skis to shred the pow... Read More
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GETTING ON BOARD. NoK Boards are the latest eco-warriors to join the recycling revolution, turning old snowboards into new skateboards...
THE ULTIMATE UNBIASED SKI TEST. This is how PROSKILAB carry out ski tests with a tried and tested methodology and intrinsic ethical values keeping their ski tests uninfluenced by brand pressure making it a point of honour to give the most objective assessment possible...
GOOD GAWD. TECHNICOLOUR SKIWEAR IS BACK. Just when it seems ski and snowboard wear couldn't get more dull along comes a crazy Canadian brand producing blazoning beacons of colour on the slopes...
SNOW TRIBES. Are you a Gnarly? Techie? Fashionskista? There are 7 distinct skiing and snowboarding style tribes? Check out which snow tribe you belong to.
SEASONAIRES
THE SKI BUMS' GUIDE TO A PROPER JOB IN THE MOUNTAINS
When the mountains are calling and just won't shut up beckoning you to make the white room your office. But how can dreaming of living in the mountains turn into living the dream? Meet the Seasonaires who just couldn't leave the mountains and have made careers out of living the high life... Read More
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11 GOOD REASONS NOT TO DO A SKI SEASON. Doing a ski season, the best decision of your life? Maybe not. Check out why you should step away from the chalet host / ski instructor / nanny/ bartender application form...
SERIAL SEASONAIRE How to snowboard or ski every winter. Snowboard contributor, Faye Young, has just spent her sixth season snowboarding in the mountains. Find out how she does it...
THE MAN BEHIND THE MORZINE CHALET PROJECT. He launched the Morzine Chalet Project, experienced seven winters,entertained many chalet guests and has written two books about skiing with 'demons'. We meet Morzine's chalet guy, Chris Tomlinson and discover his demons, skills- and possible seven year itch.
CLASS OF 2011/2012. What happened after working the winter in the mountains? And where are they now? Catching up with seasonaires 5 years later
