Ski season is open!
In the Swiss Alps, the snow has been falling steadily over the last weeks and it looks like a very promising before-Christmas start to the season, as these two 3-day old live photos from Verbier clearly...

The two activities are very complimentary and still quite opposite. One is best enjoyed in summer and in warm water and near the equator while the other is obviously best enjoyed when it is really cold and right at the other end from the sea - as high up as...

The New York Times ran a piece last winter spilling the beans about the mystical locations for unspoilt out-of-the-world skiing being tracked down by powder seekers over the years.  These hidden gems are not to be spoken of by their location name, but simply called Valley X, Y, Z, etc...

In my book, it was an ultimate good sign of exciting adventures ahead when the snow finally hit the Alps in late December.  It dumped heaps for days to last for weeks...reminded me of 1999, when there were so much snow a massive avalanche caused casualties and wiped out a...

Can you believe it?  2011 is already coming to a close.  It has been such an eventful year not only on our own micro level but also on a global scale, yet it has gone like a...