In the continuing saga of Strange Sochi Stories, allow us to present the Mexico Mariachi Olympic Ski Uniform: Seriously! You can’t make this stuff up! But wait, the weirdness factor continues. Mexico’s Olympic Ski Team will include the 55-year old Hubertus von Hohenlohe, a six-time Mexican Olympian, a world-class photographer, and a musician. Fluent in five…
In 1907, the women of Finland were granted the right to vote and run for office. A Finnish humor newspaper, called Fyren, published the above cartoon, using the female ski jumper as a symbol of women´s suffrage. The image of a ski jumper wearing a dress was not really an exaggeration. At a ski jumping…
Virgin´s Richard Branson is probably the world´s most exciting entrepreneur. It should come as no surprise that Sir Richard is currently enjoying a heli-skiing vacation in Canada. Skiing instills the “I can do anything” that successful business people require. Some describe this attitude as “chutzpah.” What is Chutzpah? Until it joined the American vernacular vocabulary,…
As if the Whistler-Blackcomb area did not have enough bragging rights, they had to add ziplining to the mix. As if ziplining was not enough, a company called Superfly Ziplines now offers a combination snowcat ride, gourmet dinner, followed by a zipline down the mountain. And you thought that gondola ride dinner tours were cool!…
Size should not always determine the destination of your next ski vacation. Sometimes, a smaller, more intimate resort provides a better option. On the other hand, if you crave a versatile skiing experience, and if you are traveling with a mixed-ability skiing group, then, the proverbial size might indeed matter. Snow Magazine reports that Swiss writer…
Anyone who has lived in a ski town will tell you that the work situation is, at best, challenging. If you dream of a life near a resort, but you´re not ready to do the ski bum thing, Outside Online has some news for you. They just issued their 2013 100 Best Places to Work…
In any snow sport, the ability to react to the environmental changes, without losing alignment or stability, is an important skill. Chip Richards, the champion Freestyle Skier, has much to say about this. In 1996, he was working with the Australian Freestyle Team. Although these skiers displayed enormous strength when executing traditional weight lifting…
Say goodbye to on-slope subtlety in 2014. This is the year of the colors, the brighter and bolder the better. We´re talking neon, gaudy prints, animal patterns and Native American inspired design. Check out this design that Olympic Silver medalist Danny Kass created for GNU Snowboards. For ski divas, the unisex look is dead, and…
On October 8th -9th 2013, The World Tourism Organization, at the invitation of the Municipality of Almaty and with the support of the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies of Kazakhstan celebrated the 1st Euro – Asian Ski Resorts Conference: “Developing New Destinations for Snow Tourism” in Almaty. Although Borat, rather than skiing, is the first…
Between gear, lift tickets, lodging and food, skiing is an expensive sport. Some people make it more expensive, by skiing and buying gear at the wrong place at the wrong time. Yet some people manage to ski on the cheap, otherwise, there would be no such thing as a ski bum. Although bargains exist, each…
The terrain park provides skiers, snowboarders and snow-bikers with an opportunity to get bragging rights by showing off their tricks. The parks evolved from the skate park concept, and share many of its features. When terrain parks first appeared in the 1980s, most resorts banned jumping and aerial maneuvers. This changed in the 1990s, when…
