Ski Touring Guide for Beginners
This beginner's guide to ski touring will provide the essential knowledge and equipment recommendations to help you get started.
What's Ski Touring?
It would be easy to start this blog by saying something like Ski Touring is the Ultimate escape…
Skiing with Children – How to Help Them Ski Better
Skiing with children is undoubtedly the best type of family holiday, and for a good reason. Doing a little planning can pre-empt any difficulties that could arise. If you're going skiing with children and want to ensure you can support them,…
Learning to Ski at Any Age
If you want to learn to ski but are worried, you've left it too late. Think again! We're here to answer your questions and tell you it's always possible to be a beginner skier. You're not alone in wondering if ...
Is it hard to learn to…
How To Ski Powder
Skiing powder is the ultimate feel-good booster. We see the pros "shredding the pow," making it look so easy, but how do they do it? Their skiing seems so light and effortless, gliding down a steep pitch. It's like a dream. Here are the secrets…
5 Ski Exercises
5 Ski Exercises to Start Your Ski Season
Snow is falling, and ski season is right around the corner. If you're like me, your first few days on the hill are always a little tentative. My skis feel too long, the boots are too stiff, and nothing…
Overcoming the Fear of Chairlifts
Are you affected by vertigo? That sensation of whirling and loss of balance is associated particularly with looking down from a great height. Or are you afraid of hurting yourself getting and off the chairlift on the ski slopes?
Chairlifts…
Advice for Nervous Skiers – 9 Tips
Are you left feeling disappointed and self-critical after your ski holiday? Or is it your first time, and you're slightly petrified at sliding on snow? Whether you're a beginner or a pro, we all get nervous.
Learning to deal with these nerves…
How to Ski Parallel
Why learn to ski parallel? Because it starts to open up the whole mountain, reducing stress on your legs, as snowplough is not a very natural position. Even if you only want to cruise the greens and blues, it will make moving around the slopes…
How to Ski Moguls
Moguls add a lot of fun and variety to skiing. Every line you ski varies and forces you to be dynamic to stay locked in a line. Yet even avid skiers avoid them. If that is you, our guide on How to Ski moguls will encourage you to give them a…
What are Moguls?
Moguls are mounds of snow that form on ski slopes that are not regularly groomed or piste bashed. When viewed from a distance a mogul field will resemble a sheet of bubble wrap.
Moguls or bumps as they can be known are the result of lots…
Our Top Ski Tips for Beginners on their first Ski Trip
Learning to ski as an adult can feel daunting, but is also extremely accessible whatever your age. We want to make sure you get the most out of your first time, so we've listed our top Ski Tips for Beginners.
SKI TIPS FOR BEGINNERS
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How Many Ski Lessons Do Beginners Need?
There's a delicate balance between booking too many and being exhausted all week or not learning the basic skills and struggling all week. We haven't found that perfect number after years of experience – it varies from one person (or family)…