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Skizentrum Sankt Andreasberg, Skiing for Beginners

Germany, Snow Sports
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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 healthy stuff after feasting on a stead...
Snowshoeing at La Berra, Switzerland

Snowshoeing La Berra

Snow Sports, Switzerland
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 and our only subsequent out...

Charmey Death Sticks

Snow Sports, Switzerland
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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 Travis and I are still fairly new to Sw...

Sledding at Moléson-sur-Gruyères

Snow Sports, Switzerland
Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it. Edmund Hillary, first climber to summit Everest in 1953 (more&hell...
night snowshoeing at Schwarzsee

Moonlight Snowshoeing at Schwarzsee

Snow Sports, Switzerland
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 moon! Our group of 18 hikers ...
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