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Celebrate your inner Jerry and live to ski another day laughing

I am wearing a pair of pants this season that on anyone else would spell style and technical chic but on me just spell...

Loving (and hearing) the women you ski and snowboard with

We write about women's issues in the snow world often, so my writer's block around International Women's Day this year surprised me. Try as...

Knowing when to stop skiing and snowboarding to save yourself

I'm tired. Scratch that. Exhausted. So exhausted my bones are crying. Not just my bones either, I literally sobbed into a drip filter coffee...

Avalanche deaths, burials and near misses in Japan this week

There is a frenzy about skiing and snowboarding in Japan right now. The numbers of western snow lovers making the pilgrimage to the powder...

Why we need to talk, and then talk some more, about...

It's hard not to get angry at the senseless lives lost in avalanches during peak snow periods. It's even harder to refrain from saying...

Is Scotty James the funniest snowboarder ever created?

I have a confession to make. I just lost an hour of my life on snowboarder Scotty James' Instagram account. An hour I was...

The good, the bad and the ugly lift lines of Whistler’s...

Man, has it been an epic (no pun intended) season for Whistler thus far with huge snowfalls.  This week alone has seen cars buried under...

Clock ticks on Vail Resorts, Hotham and Falls Creek rumours

The skinternet (see what we did there) went into a mild frenzy on Thursday when the Australian Financial Review announced online at 11.30pm that...

Why working as a ski instructor is living your best life

I remember the days as a young teenager when I would dread the thought of winter. Winter school uniform meant wearing a pleated skirt,...

Sustainable Christmas gifts for the skier/boarder that has everything

Oh look, it's Christmas. Again. How did that happen? Yes, I know, the earth went round the sun over and over and voila, here...

The meaning of life is skiing or snowboarding

If you ski or snowboard then you know that moment when your body is in rhythm with the earth, and you dance with nature...

21 things snowboard instructors really really don’t want you to do

The life of a snowboard instructor is a fun one, but it comes with its own challenges and most of those challenges are predictably,...

11 step survival guide to northern season without skiing or boarding

Maybe you were trying to save money. Maybe you didn't have enough annual leave. Maybe, in a fit of goodwill, you agreed to go...

Steamboat and Snowbird trash talk each other on twitter and it’s...

Who wins when two of the world's most famed resorts go head to head on social media? The reader, that's who.  When cross state snow...

Season to season: the torrid love affair of life in a...

Seasonal living was made for me, an all or nothing girl. I'm either rich with disposable cash or poor searching for coins in my...

Taking a baby to your Aussie ski club lodge for the...

Whether he likes it or not, the snow was always destined to be a part of my son Oliver’s life. He was born in early...
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