Skiholiday Magazine

After the last slope we would like to put skis and ski boots in the cellar, take out climbing boots and the backpack and don’t think about skiing until we see the first snowflakes again. But if you would like to use your skis also in the next winter, you should prepare them well for the summer break.

New skis, a fast toboggan, a trendy ski jacket, moonboots for the kids… If you go on winter holiday with the family, now and then you have to dig deep into your pocket. However, if you decide to lend a part of the equipment instead of buying it, if you compare offers and look for alternatives, you can save plenty of money.

You’ve surely already gone through a situation like that: You are skiing on the slope, don’t fret about those few clouds or the little wafts of mist crawling up the mountain and before you could say Jack Robinson the visibility ends at the point of your skis and you don’t anymore, where you are…

Would you like to discover the slopes of Zillertal, to admire the panorama of the Dolomites or do you rather prefer a nostalgia winter tour to Zermatt? The range of skiing areas in the Alps is so large that it’s quite difficult to choose one. Report of experiences and ratings may be a big help – for instance the current raking of Europe’s best skiing areas.

By now www.skiholiday.com participates in the World Skitest for the fifth time. Every year another skiing area is the scene for this important ski test that presents and checks the skis of the next winter season. This year it was the turn of the skiing area Wilder Kaiser-Brixental in Tyrol.

To conclude the winter season in a good way South Tyrol’s skiing mountain no. 1 – Mt. Kronplatz – on Sunday, 22nd April 2012, celebrates the funny, a little bit crazy and most of all wet festival called "Locknfest".

Doing yoga can help you to harmonize body and mind, to recharge your batteries, to find yourself again and to create quiet, clarity and level-headedness. A mountain tour that offers new views and distance from everyday worries can have a similar meditative effect. And if we combine these two things?