Tick tick tick. This travel blog is for the time poor but curious traveller who wants to see at a glance the top three things to tick on every trip. Why three? It keeps my travel blog short and sweet. It also ties in with a triptych, an artistic form from the middle ages which is an arrangement of three pictures together that tell a story.
Most people head to California for the sun and the beaches but we dig the sun and the snow more! We have skied the Lake Thoe area for decades but just recently went back to two old favs: Mammoth Mountain and Squaw Valley – now renamed Tahoe Palisades. Highlights of Mammoth Mountain With 100 km of ski routes, 28 lifts, 178 runs and 945 m of vertical Mammoth mountain is […]
We have always loved Colorado for skiing – something about the mix of cowboy towns, big powder, chilled vibe (discounting Vail of course) and wide-open bowls lures us in every time. We spent a couple of winter seasons living in Steamboat Springs many moons ago and have returned there regularly but on our last visit to the cowboy state we threw in a couple of new mountains: A-Basin, Copper and […]
This off the radar ski resort came to our attention when it joined the EPIC pass in 2022 and we decided to head over with our daughter who was studying in Leeds, UK at the time for a pre-Xmas ski. December is a hit and miss time for many European ski areas and the Andermatt Sedrun area certainly didn’t have as much snow as in its peak time in January […]