Snow It All

Ten things you didn't know about snow

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:52:41 GMT

If you're reading this then chances are you are obsessed by snow. You are not alone: about 800,000 Australians ski and snowboard in Australia each year; 90,000 of us head to New Zealand and ...

2012's best snow photos

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:15:18 GMT

Like every winter season 2012 has come with highs and lows for Australia and New Zealand.

Charity begins at the snow

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 02:31:54 GMT

Skiing and snowboarding can at its best be an empowering, uplifting and bonding experience that provides confidence, freedom and connection.

At its worst, it can be a vacuous, ...

Why Kiwis should ski in Australia

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 03:49:14 GMT

Call me shallow but I have always been seduced by beauty. One blink of New Zealand's alpine eyelashes thrusting skywards from cobalt blue lakes and I was blinded eight years ago. But beauty ...

Bullets in Pakistan, powder in Bolivia: world's most extreme ski destinations

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 02:48:45 GMT

"Committed" skiers and snowboarders love to boast, and they try to outdo each other on online forums around the world. We've put together an ultimate list of intrepid ski and board destinations, ...

How skiing can save your life

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 02:38:10 GMT

For many, time out at the snow is an opportunity to forget reality for a day, a week or a month. Those working a ski season can easily put "real life" on hold for up to four months, lost in ...

Off your head at the snow

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 04:24:57 GMT

It took one wrong turn and an incorrect binding set-up on Portillo Ski Resort's steeps to know I was far from invincible when skiing. If I had thought I was immortal previously, a yard sale and a ...

Beaten by the Brits? Just you wait ...

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:25:44 GMT

As an Aussie I have received my fair bit of social media ribbing from Brits (surprising given they have their own games success to obsess about) and Kiwis (not surprising) on the state of the ...

Home or away? Where Aussies are really skiing

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:49:47 GMT

We launched this season's blog with a post on the ...

The world's best (and worst) snow ads

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 04:22:51 GMT

If advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths then the world of snow has a lot of material to work with.

Gone are the days when a good TV commercial and a simple print ...

The big secret about heli-skiing

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:40:01 GMT

There's a little-known truth about heli-skiing, kept secret by those that have a vested interest in keeping an age old myth alive.

Anyone can do it. You don't have to be the extreme, ...

Angels or demons? Skiers versus patrols

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 01:49:09 GMT

How can you not love a man or woman who holds your life in their hands, flies in helicopters, has control of the explosives and the pain killing drugs and retains a sense of soothing laid back ...

Beer goggles at altitude - love at the snow

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:45:32 GMT

I have fallen in love at the snow too many times to count. I blame the altitude. The lack of oxygen is equivalent to beer goggles at sea level.

Blokes I wouldn’t recommend to 'that' ...

From snow bingles to Lara Bingle: ski vids go viral

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:55:56 GMT

Ask someone to 'I'll friend you if you like me then tag, share and tweet' ten years ago and they'd think you were off your snow tree. These days, those without a ...

S--- skiers and boarders do

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 04:50:41 GMT

You've seen the Whistler Blackcomb "S--- skiers say" video shortly followed by Vermont's

Laughing at beginners ... yes, it happens

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:25:48 GMT

I was late to skiing, very late. Not for me the glow of the goggle tan entitled on the first day back at school after winter holidays.

Skiing was a club I simply had no access code ...

Fast food to master chefs: snow now a foodie's paradise

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:33:21 GMT

'Food, not so glorious food' has long been the catchcry of on mountain snow food at the Australian and New Zealand ski fields.

Many a time I have resented handing over buckets of dosh for ...

Weather goddess to douchebag: top 10 snow 'must haves'

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:38:55 GMT

Snow It All has compiled our top ten 'must have' items for a snow trip this winter. We've done the sourcing and testing of the latest tech products from websites to cameras to goggles and ...

How Australia's ski fields will win you back

Thu, 24 May 2012 04:43:20 GMT

Some say the war began in September 2011 when Perisher released an early bird $699 season pass for 2012. Season pass prices like this hadn’t been seen in the snow industry ...

World's cheapest skiing, plus best pics of the season

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:50:49 GMT

Snow It All can almost smell the fresh dry northern powder in the air. The countdown is well and truly on for the northern ski season as snow Down Under loses its battle with tussock and bushland ...

Resort price war breaks out for next ski season

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:11:05 GMT

There's a war happening in the Australian snow fields and Perisher started it with their $699 Perisher Freedom season pass.

The price war for season passes for 2012 has been a long time ...