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Wild Snow backcountry blog

Thursday, 03. 29. 2007  –  Category: Skiing, Snowboarding

New to my Bloglines feed subscription list is WildSnow.com. I love the site already having only read a few posts.
Mainly I love it cos of the unashamed SEO (search engine optimisation) thrown at it (SEO is my day job). Stuff like “Lou Dawson’s Backcountry Skiing Weblog Blog and Website” is brilliant SEO overkill.

I [...]

Val Thorens weather and webcams

Wednesday, 03. 28. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

Val Thorens is booked! So with the final trip of the season lined up, I’m checking the weather forecasts, snow reports and web cams daily now and hoping the conditions are going to hold.

Val Thorens late season trip

Saturday, 03. 24. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

I’ve decided to go to Val Thorens for what will be my final snowboarding jaunt this season. Planning a week from the Easter weekend. Have been once before, so have an idea roughly where I want to stay. This map has been really useful.
Val Thorens town map
The plan is to stay [...]

Les Arcs weekend break

Sunday, 03. 18. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

Well, technically not a full weekend, but have just come back from a day on the slopes at Les Arcs.
After months of hassle with lastminute.com trying to sort the tickets out, we booked onto a Eurostar from London to Bourg Saint Maurice leaving on Friday evening arriving 6:30am Saturday, before heading back to London at [...]

Chamonix Valley

Friday, 03. 16. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

Quick post to give you a heads up about a new site set up my an old mate of mine. Chamonix Valley.com is a comprehensive guide to Chamonix.
Sections worth your time if you’re heading to Cham’ include the Chamonix blog with regular snow reports from around the valley, (like this one from Brévent/Flégère), Chamonix [...]

Snowboarder dies after crevasse fall

Friday, 03. 16. 2007  –  Category: Snowboarding

Sad news of a British woman dying whilst heli-snowboarding on the Zermatt glacier.
The 33-year-old woman fell as she skied at high altitude down a glacier on the Swiss-Italian border.
Police in the Valais area said the woman fell 15 metres into the crevasse at 3,060 metres above sea level.
They said she was among a group of [...]

Ripped off by lastminute.com?

Thursday, 03. 8. 2007  –  Category: Uncategorized

Check out this Ryan Air ad published in the Guardian newspaper yesterday:

If you can’t quite read the image, the ad says:
Robbed by lastminute.com?
If you buy a Ryanair ticket through an online agent you’re being ripped off…

Snowboard furniture

Friday, 03. 2. 2007  –  Category: Running, Snowboarding

Bored with the usual sofa beds and want some funkier furniture to remind you of your love for all things snowboarding?
Try these for starters: