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The best places to learn to ski

By Edward Ockelton

ski beginnerTo get the best out of a ski holiday, it is important to choose the right destination to suit the level of your group. This is especially true for beginners.

Nothing can put a beginner off skiing quicker than a week spent trying to ski down unsuitable steep terrain, or have to travel for miles to get to the beginner ski slopes.

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The Great, Wide Wonderland Of Snow And Skiing

By Sandy Knoll

You’ve made up your mind. You’ve resolved (maybe again) to get more exercise. All that’s left is deciding what to choose. What if you wanted something you can do either indoors or outdoors, in any season, at nearly any time, and provides an all-over "workout" without feeling like you’ve done any work?

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Chatel – a wonderful secret resort in the French Alps

By Edward Ockelton

If you know a bit about the world of skiing, you might well think that the largest ski area in the world is the Three Valleys. You might also think that only glacier resorts such as Tignes are able to offer "snow sure" skiing. In both cases you would be wrong!

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Learning to telemark ski has its challenges but is a fast learning sport for avid alpine skiers.

By L.A. Need

Telemark skiing definitely a physically demanding sport as its best described as doing squats as you ski, downhill. As K2 is quoted saying "if it were easy, it would be called snowboarding".

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