St Anton 2025
Final Day!
It's the final day in St Anton, and we've all had a really great time! Today we thought we'd revisit the better routes of the week, so we started with a gondola up to Rendl again, where the Route 1 came down all the
Tom Ludlow
St Anton 2025
A Rather lovely day!
The day started in a thick fog that made skiing slightly more challenging. Instead of being able to look ahead and predict the patches of ice, moguls, or other skiiers, you had to trust in your legs and hips to deal with them all as they arrived. Fortunately the snow
St Anton 2025
The Heights of Rendl
Today the four of us set out together to Rendl, a different area to where we'd all been before, on a recommendation from Martin - the owner of the house who'd said there were lots of wide open slopes. To get there, we took a slightly
St Anton 2025
A mountain adventure
We began with our staple breakfast, getting ready for a group adventure today! Down to the gondola 🚠was more of an event, the morning rush requiring some argy-bargy akin to the London underground at rush hour to get on, but with winter clothing, skis and ski poles to add some
St Anton 2025
Is it cold enough yet?
The coldest day of the holiday began with another leisurely breakfast, before braving the Alpine snow, splitting off immediately so that I could head back to the Meeting Point to join Martin (2) ready for my lesson. I took a quick detour back via the button lift to get a
St Anton 2025
The 4 Martins and a Crazy Marsupial
Last night culminated in an early night ahead of our early-(ish) start in Martin Tschol (Martin 1)'s house! We just caught the ski-ploughs going down the hill ready for the next day! We woke to breakfast of Porridge, orange juice, honey puffs, flapjack, tea and coffee to
St Anton 2025
-6 Degrees C
Pete and I began with Journeys from Leeds to Hull and Harrogate, to do half-a-day's work (Pete) and to collect my repaired Audi, testing it in the snow on the way back home! I went into town in hunt of one more insulated layer, looking, as it does,
6 Days to Go!
6 Days to go until Pete and I fly with Tim and Colin to Friedrichshafen Airport in Germany (only opens in the Ski Season) from Gatwick, bound for St Anton in Austria for a week of (fingers crossed), glorious skiing! Keep an eye on the blog for photos and tales