Tag: The Alps
The Alps for Everyone
/Reading Time: 6 minutesThinking about Europe but not sure where to start? Some of these destinations may not readily come to mind. Lots of resorts bill themselves as all things to all skiers, […]
Read more »Grumpy Old Men
/Reading Time: 4 minutesfrom Fall 2011 issue The other day I was out on the balcony of Mike’s $99-million chalet just blowing smoke with my buds. From the 4,314m summit of Grand Combin […]
Read more »Group On!
/Reading Time: 9 minutes Ski Canada’s first-ever readers’ trip headed to Switzerland’s Grindelwald and the Jungfrau. Before Martin Schürmann, our BASE-jumping mountain guide from the Mürren Ski School, hucked his short, muscly body with a parachute-stuffed backpack off a […]
Read more »Three lavish ski resorts in France’s Trois Vallées
/Reading Time: 7 minutesEat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you will ski We’re under siege and falling fast. This army doesn’t play fair: it’s co-ordinated, exploits our weaknesses shamelessly and knows only […]
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