Category: Ski Events

Dumpling Festival in St Johann, Tirol, Austria.

The dumpling festival is perhaps the best reason to visit St Johann in Tirol in late Summer. Dumplings, beer and oom-pah bands.

The longest day of the year has come and gone. Usually this milestone marks the start of British summer and the Festival season.

Many are considering whether air travel is going to be a good idea, hence the idea of driving to ski resorts is being thrown around.

The Winter Olympics in PyeongChang in 2018 led to a lot of investment in ski resorts; so now is the time to add South Korea list.

Launching off a mountain with skis attached to your feet, a fabric wing overhead and heading downhill is the sport of speed riding.

If you ski small resorts in Austria you can forget how BIG some are. Two glaciers, three 3,000m peaks and a 15km run; Soelden is truly BIG.

I’m a bit too old to do a “week-long whirlwind of world class DJs and bands” that is Snowbombing, but I know someone who isn’t.

Après ski is a French expression that literally translates as ‘after skiing’ and traditionally meant a few drinks at the end of the ski day.