Photo journey: ski touring Tasmania under the Aurora Australis
The Southern Hemisphere's equivalent to the Aurora Borealis is the equally spectacular but often overlooked Aurora Australis. Outside Antarctica, perhaps the best place to...
Best Aussie backcountry tours for first timers this ski season
While Australia waits for more news about the ski season ahead, including opening dates and how resorts will operate in a COVID winter, thoughts...
Straya! The home grown version of cat and heli skiing at...
I was standing at the top of a chairlift in Falls Creek, enjoying the morning bluebird skies, when a snowmobile pulled up beside me. Attached...
A first timer’s guide to skiing Australia’s big mountain Feathertop
If you've skied or snowboarded at Hotham in Victoria then you will have laid your eyes upon the almighty Feathertop mountain in the Alpine...
Backcountry beginner? We’ve found the perfect Aussie intro tour for you
I’ve been avoiding backcountry skiing for years. Ever since I learned about the concept of ‘earning your turns’, I put it straight into the...
Is this gnarly line a first ski descent in Australia’s backcountry?
You'd be forgiven for thinking this image, and the line skied by Hugh Newall yesterday, is from the steeps of North America or the...
Video: 2 skiers conquered this couloir on Cradle Mountain in Tasmania
Three adventure loving blokes hit up the East face of Cradle Mountain this weekend, ski mountaineering Tassie style over rocks and boulders into an,...
I thought I knew everything, then I did an AST 1...
When the pow drops in any village north of the equator, it’s the Aussies on snow holiday who are running out the door like...
The perfect introduction to backcountry ski touring in Australia
If someone told me I could go to Perisher and ski fresh tracks for an entire Saturday in July, without waiting in a single...
VIDEO: Be inspired by the Aussie quadriplegic who heli skis in...
Australian sit skier Sarah-Jane 'SJ' Staszak knows adversity. The adventure loving legend became a quadriplegic after a simple surgery went wrong five years ago....
You won’t believe these snow adventure pics are from Australia
Jake Sims and his snow loving mates, Trent Shaddock and Erryn Reeder love an Aussie backcountry adventure and are experienced riders. They've already hit...
British Columbia heli and cat ski experiences that Aussies will love
For many, the pinnacle of skiing and snowboarding is cat skiing and heli skiing where skiers and snowboarders take a cat (snow groomer with...
What it’s really like to conquer the biggest snow lines in...
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Thirty eight year old Matt Ward...
Cat ski, heli ski or touring in Canada – which is...
Like many Australians, my first taste of British Columbian (BC) was a trip to Whistler in the 1990s, standing on the peak thinking "that's...
Is off piste more dangerous in Europe than North America?
Europe has had some major snow this season. Correction, Austria had some major snow this season in January and the USA had tons all...
Avalanche deaths, burials and near misses in Japan this week
There is a frenzy about skiing and snowboarding in Japan right now. The numbers of western snow lovers making the pilgrimage to the powder...
