Snow Sports

From skiing and snowboarding to snowshoeing and sledding

Skizentrum Sankt Andreasberg, Skiing for Beginners

Germany
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Lower Saxony may be pretty, but I gotta say – the mountains are mere mole hills. Moving to central Germany from Switzerland is like having your parents replace your Halloween candy with broccoli; it’s harder to enjoy the other stuff...

Snowshoeing La Berra

Snow Sports
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While living in Oregon, Trav and I gained an appreciation for snowshoeing.  After just one trip, we appreciated what an inexpensive sport is is, accessible to most anyone. All we had to do was either rent or purchase used snowshoes...

Charmey Death Sticks

Snow SportsSwitzerland
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A delay in snowfall in the Alps during the 2015 winter season led to bare ground at many ski resorts in Switzerland, Italy, and France as late as December when the ski season should already have been well underway. Since...
night snowshoeing at Schwarzsee

Moonlight Snowshoeing at Schwarzsee

Snow SportsSwitzerland
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It’s not breaking news that Switzerland is famous for its winter sports. We finally were able to truly experience it firsthand with a snowshoeing trip to Schwarzsee.  But not during the day. Instead, we went at night during a full...