Skiing in Italy

Hi Friends & Family! We hope that you will enjoy following us along on our skiing and biking adventures in Europe. We are very fortunate to be able to take this trip and feel very enabled by our supportive Walker/Davis families. Unlike most honeymoons, ...

... day in Gallipolli, through drinking in Belfast, climbing in France, backpacking in Northern and Eastern Europe, travelling and hiking in Peru, skiing and working in Canada and 3 weddings in between (not mine). All the funny, happy, sad, crazy and ...

We headed off to Northwest Italy for a week of Olympic viewing and skiing. Our friends Glen and Laura from Chicago, as well as Glen's sister Sandy from Miami, had rented a place in Bardonecchia in the Italian Alps. Glen and Sandy speak fluent Italian, ...

Some of the guys we met in Turkey spent the previous winter skiing in Araba in the Dolomites, Italy. So after hearing their stories and seeing photos we joined in their next trip where 14 of us (13 Aussies and 1 Kiwi) headed to the snow for a week of ...

... on a week visit starting Sunday so for a couple of days we felt a bit out of it and ended up having to pay for a private skiing lesson on Saturday.  Our teacher, Giovani, was paitent with all four of us and we learnt the basics on Sunday we went back ...

23 February 2008, Saturday Before leaving for the skiing trip, everyone was asking where I was headed - the only answer I could give them was, Italy. Where exactly we were headed I had no idea, the only information I could provide was that we were to ...

... have been able to get a ticket to the long distance skiing event. Some other time I guess...perhaps in Vancouver after I become a skeleton and downhill skiing champ myself. Onto a little relaxation and the Cinque Terra region of Italy next. ...

... to turn around when the wheels were spinning forward but we were rolling backwards.  A visit to Cortina will have to wait for another time - probably in the summer (if ever) since we really do prefer skiing in Austria over ...

We went to spend a weekend in Gressoney, under the beautiful massif of Monte Rosa (4600 m). Skiing there was great even though the weather conditions were not easy (strong below minus and very harsh wind on the 3000+ m top station). Very exhausting but ...

... Rifugio dining on regional specialities. Highlights include a day trip to Cortina, watching the ski joring races in La Villa, and skiing the Sella Ronda and Lagazoi. At night, we shared cocktails with the Russian, British, German, and Italian guests, ...

4 days of epic skiing in ...

... to park before catching the Alpine express to Zermatt... another car free Alpine resort. Zermatt is famous for having year round skiing and of course the famous Materhorn... which is the mountain the Toblerone chocolate bar is based on. Zermat was quite ...

SKiing trip to Dolomites, the valley Alta Badia with people from five nationalities, this was one trip I am not going to ...

Family skiing ...

Perfect skiing and apre ...

... of me again and I knew it was time to go. I know Lorenzo understands. Lorenzo is this cool dude who I taught skiing with back in Courmayeur, Italy. I think I left his house during the first week of May. Well I got on a train headed for Rome, since I ...

... of them. Mt. Bachelor has got to get on that. Cable car straight from the westside....that would be nice. There is also a lot of heli-skiing in the area we were in. We would have loved to have had our gear with us, but, sadly, we could not. We were able ...

... ; Snow does not stick on the sunny side of the mountain/valley.  But the mountains provide a constant source of snow and skiing. Flowers like snap dragon, hydrangea, marigold, and geranium can still be found in full bloom now, in the second week of ...