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Skiers and snowboarders: stop dissing Australia!

Back in 2019, pre Covid, I kicked off my own Snowsbest Aussie Tour hitting up Perisher, Thredbo and Falls Creek. I hadn’t been in...

Dear ski daughter, things I’d teach my snow child

An ode to skiing and snowboarding and of lessons learnt for all the snow daughters who love to ski and snowboard. I have no children....

A guide for would-be pro-skiers and boarders wanting media coverage

You've got yourself sponsored, you've secured yourself on a state or national ski or snowboard team and you're ready to start winning medals. Now the...

How skiing and snowboarding brings mindful life moments

“I am so happy”. Four words I haven’t said much in 2021. Words reserved only for intimate moments with those who move my soul, in...

The North Face launches women freeride Team Kit outerwear

As female skiers and snowboarders we've all conquered something in our snow journey, whether it's fear, anxiety, awkwardness, the patriarchy, lack of funds or...

Skiing during a pandemic: where do seasonal snow workers go from...

I was in New York when COVID-19 really hit. It was overnight, as many others have also said. One day, Trump was on CNN...

Ski, board and snow jargon translator for first timers

You're at the snow and you hear face shot so you pull out your phone to take a selfie. You ask people what time...

Fashion Critical’s hilarious review of Miu Miu’s snow wear collection

So the playful farshun folk at Prada's Miu Miu label in Italy went ahead and used Cortina Ski Resort in the Dolomites to hold...

R U SNOWKAY? Mental health conversations we need to have

One day in April back in 2017 I lay on my couch in the shiny ski town of Park City in Utah and wondered...

Dear ski son, things I’d teach my snow child

A few months back I wrote an open letter to my imaginary ski daughter, the one I never had. The letter revealed 30 things...

One man’s hilarious wrestling match with his ski boots

I watched my Dad putting on ski boots for the first time in decades while on holiday in Italy in February. The toll on...

Want to guess how the Aussie ski resorts will run this...

With coronavirus curves being flattened, the Australasian snow industry is more hopeful than ever that there will be enough lifted restrictions come winter to...

How the face of skiing/boarding will change this southern season

The rumours are swirling as ski resorts on both sides of the ditch spend no doubt countless hours in Zoom strategy meetings, covering all...

How to become a snow blogger/writer/journo and travel the world

You've fallen in love with powder, you think you can string a sentence together and know how to play on social media and now...

11 ways to keep the ski and board dream alive while...

To think a week ago I was lying on my own private island, sipping coconut cocktails and being fanned by a Greek god called...

What does being female in the snow industry mean to you?

NATALIA HAWK. Skier. Snow content producer.  I GREW UP an anxious kid, in a time where anxiety didn’t really exist. I wasn’t sporty, and most sports...

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