Snow gossip, rumours and innuendo for the 2013 season
It is snow guns at fifty paces in the lead up to the Australasian ski season as rumours and gossip fight with reality in the snow…
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It’s snowing – well derrr
My news feed is filled with snow flakes on Facebook and instagram this week. Snow from France three days before summer, snow in South America, snow storms in New Zealand, I…
Bring back The Dream – Roy & HG for Sochi
Ten have done a Steve Bradbury and as the last Free to Air Channel standing secured the broadcast rights for Australia for the Sochi Winter Olympics…
Rip Curl’s snow matrix – a world first
Knowing when to call patrol
Here’s a tip for you
Snap snap – tips from the pros on taking images at the snow
Husky Hotham
Meet Jasper and Crystal, two family loved husky dogs once destined for death row by neighbours who couldn’t stand them barking. Thanks to Brett Haddon from…
Save a child for the cost of a lift pass
This post is off snow topic but ten year old Allan Ssematya lives far from the snow, in Uganda on the African continent and he needs…
When powderhounds become boozehounds
In Verbier it’s espresso martinis, in Thredbo Jaigie bombs, in Park City the lemon drop, in Portillo the pisco sour, in Chatter Creek the shot ski…
No legs big heart
Ski and snowboard accidents are never pretty and while we push the idea of life altering injuries and even death to the side as we seek…
Seven world cup events at Winter Games NZ
Expect an influx of the world’s most elite snowsports athletes in New Zealand come August 15. The Winter Games NZ is the Southern Hemisphere pre-cursor to…
Sir Richard Branson wants a ski resort
It’s not every day you get invited on a private plane to a private island to hang with Entrepreneurial Royalty. Eight selected journos donned our dark…
The ski pro guide to getting media
You’ve got yourself ‘sponsored’, you’ve secured yourself on a state or national ski or snowboard ‘team’ and you’re ready to start winning medals. Now the media…
The soap opera of women’s skiing
Ashley Battersby at X Games Aspen 2013: photo credit AP Slopestyle skier Ashley Battersby lay tangled in the side fence at the X Games, her knee…
