Sunday, February 19, 2017

Italian Snow

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It continues to be the case that all the best skiing is in Italy. It was good to ski with Rachel who I have skied with since she was 16....
Saturday, February 04, 2017

Making something out of nothing :In search of the perfect snow

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The first plan was a good one . It had been tried and tested a few times. It was called a "helicopter skiing safari." We would ...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

The Excess Boys Return

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Each year, some might say, it becomes more difficult to shoe-horn the Excess-Team into the back of the 17 year old Land Rover Defender. A...
Friday, January 27, 2017

If you want good snow stay low.

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The general view in the alps is the the snow cover has been very poor so far this year. The big problem , which seems to be more and more...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Alpine Skiing Road Trip January 2017

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January 13th The plan was simple, to set off on a road trip skiing in a resort for a couple of days reviewing what conditions were like an...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Italy still has the best snow but finally that might be changing.

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David Ford joined me for three days for a mixture of off piste skiing and ski touring. This was to be David's introduction to the activ...
Wednesday, January 04, 2017

High Pressure No Snow just weeks of blue skies

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On or around the 11th November it snowed a lot. About a meter fell over night. [This was light relief because everyone needed badly chee...