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Tags: ski, marathon, Engadin]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/engadin_ski_marathon_2008 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:39:27 GMT pick a ski resort is the distance it is away from the airport. If your skiing holiday is only for a week, leaving home early on a Saturday morning and getting there in time for some time on the slopes that afternoon/evening is a big bonus! So here's a list of European destinations by their distance from the runways with some other info included.

Resort	Distance (km) from airport	Piste Length (km)	Weekly ski pass (£)
Chamonix, France	88 from Geneva	152	142
Glenshee, Scotland	110 from Aberdeen	40	120
Les Arcs, France	140 from Geneva	200	156
Sierra Nevada, Spain	150 from Malaga	61	142
Lillehammer, Norway	160 from Oslo	30	135
Val D'Isere, France	180 from Geneva	300	154
Andorra	185 from Barcelona	282	110
Bormio, Italy	200 from Milan-Malpensa and Linate	39	98
Saas-Fee, Switzerland	225 from Geneva	140	128
Pamporovo, Bulgaria	240 from Sofia	25	42

Tags: ski]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/european_ski_resorts_by_airport Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:59:35 GMT online ski lesson. Go through some of the questions to narrow down what you need work on and they provide useful tips!

Tags: ski, lesson]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/oh_no_no_snow Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:00:35 GMT The Snow Co Resort Selector. You fill out a questionnaire and out pops a list of suitable destinations for your holiday. Easy!

Tags: skiing, ski resort]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/which_ski_resort Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:13:08 GMT Ski jump gone wrong.
Lucky basketball shot.
Swerving free kick.
Awesome table football skills.

Tags: video, skiing, football]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/some_great_video_clips Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:38:38 GMT Roman "Chelski" Abramovich was there at the start of the week. Unfortunately a billionaire still can't control the weather though... it was dire. There were avalanche warnings every day and rain for the whole of another. Unheard of for Jan. I blame Bush for the global warming. But that really was the only bad thing about the week. Can't compliment Ski World enough really. Our stay at the Auberge Ensoleille was brilliant, great food, nice staff.

I'd like to share a revelation I had when trapped indoors during one particularly heavy spell of snowfall. I was trying to work out what would constitute a good week's skiing. Personally, forget feeling that your control's improving and all that sort of rubbish, I think it's all about the mileage. It's therefore also all about the raw straight-line velocity. If I ever set up my own ski school, the mission statement would be

"Why jinks, when you can schuss?" cos 'trop vite!' is praise, not abuse!"

Catchy. So with me being the founder and first pupil of the David Butler ski school, the week became sort of like, another day, another near death experience. Once, going into the thick stuff, my skiis quite annoyingly just stopped, thus launching me forwards as if I was on a bike and braked hard with the front wheel. I got up and thought, "oops, I'm blind" but it turned out that my goggles had been neatly packed full to the brim with snow. Don't know how that happened cos I was still wearing them over my eyes. Anyway, I think that's where the cut on my nose has come from.

Other highlights? Our rep crashing the minibus, tobogganing down a vertical distance of 200m in the dark, and working out the logistics of an El Gringo's drinking challenge are all up there, but watching Oxford University draw 3-3 at ice hockey with a Courchevel team composed of very angry young guys and witness the ref actually deck one of them was a real bonus. The photos are here.

Tags: Courchevel, skiing, ice hockey]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/a_moguls_mogul_not_yet Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:59:36 GMT Courchevel 1850 is described as, so why we blue collar workers are going there tomorrow I have no idea! May well be doing lots of this (video high/low) in the week and scare some french folk.

Tags: skiing, Herman Meier]]> http://www.nimisis.com/posts/cosmopolitan_and_chic Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:10:21 GMT
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