Snowboarding is no longer the new kid on the block. Having burst onto the winter sports scene in the 80s it is now an established winter sport. In this worldwide snowboarding travel guide we help you decide where to snowboard. We have holidays, courses and winter accommodation all over the world to help you plan the perfect trip.
When snowboarders first hit the slopes skiers were not happy to be sharing the mountains. There is still a little antagonism between the sideways and forward snow sliders but most people accept it is all just sliding in snow.
The mainstream acceptance of snowboarding was in 1998 when it became a Winter Olympic sport. Since then it has gone onto to change the face of winter sports. In many ways skiing has emulated snowboarding to become more fun and laid back. Freestyle, big air, boardercross and the halfpipe are all popular events introduced by snowboarding which skiers have embraced.
Most snowboarding takes place in ski resorts around the world. However with the invention of splitboarding snowboarders can now skin up the mountains like ski tourers to access backcountry. Where to snowboard? These says it is anywhere with snow but preferably also mountains!
Snowboarding travel is popular worldwide. From Iceland to New Zealand, US to UK, Austria to Australia and France to Japan there are ski resorts in every corner. So put on your boots, gear, goggles and suncream and we’ll see you on the slopes.
All around the world people are brought together by the things that they love doing. From vinyl record collecting, to mountain biking to snowboarding. Arranged in a way that is not entirely different to that of an ancient tribe this…
My family and I were extremely excited about our Claviere family skiing holiday with Crystal Ski in Italy. No one more so than my three year old daughter, who was looking forward to seeing daddy on his sledge (kids talk…
From the heights of Mont Blanc to the less-crowded peaks of the Pyrenees, France offers a winter wonderland of reliably snowy slopes and cosy chalets all year round. The perennial snows, easy access and high altitude make the French Alps the most…
The hallowed ski or snowboard week. That one week a year where you head to the mountains and hit the slopes. It is sacred to many people, but have you had blasphemous thoughts of a weekend skiing holiday instead? In…
Looking like a stormtrooper, buying British, and extra protection for my noggin are the reasons I was excited to conduct this Ruroc RG1-X helmet review. Both in looks and protection levels the Ruroc is different to the rest of the…
Mark Warner have been offering ski holidays since the 70s and were already a popular ski operator by the time snowboarding came on the scene. Quick to embrace the new sport they have close relationships with snowboarding schools in all…
Instead of asking yourself what equipment you need to ski or snowboard off piste, perhaps you would be better off asking yourself what backcountry ski gear you need to ski safely off piste. Skiing or snowboarding outside of the managed…
To be honest when faced with the opportunity to conduct a review of Teko eco-friendly socks my first thought was ‘how am I going to write about socks?’. But Teko don’t just make ‘socks’, they make high performance sports footwear that…
Skiing & snowboard chalet & hotel holiday packages in Europe. Catered ski chalets and half board hotels and clubhotels in the best ski resorts in Europe. Packages include UK flights, transfers, 7 nights hotel and chalet with half board or fully…
If you want to start jibbing and doing tricks then it is worth investing in a forgiving freestyle snowboard. You can jib on an all-mountain stick but by getting the right board for the job you’ll progress faster and hopefully have less…
I had always been reluctant to try snowboarding in bib pants, mainly because I associated it with skiers wearing high and tight salopettes in a 90s winter version of Simon Cowell. But with skiers now being the cool kids on the slopes and us snowboarders are apparently…
The winter of Canada brings us the opportunity to experience the sensation of total freedom. Using touring skis, telemark skis or a split board we can enjoy this freedom of riding fresh powder in the Backcountry Mountains of Canada or…
Not many European ski resorts open in November, and as for as I know Ischgl is the only resort without a glacier to regularly open this early. Also Ischgl doesn’t just meekly open, it does so with a bang by hosting a concert and…
Recently I was lucky enough to snowboard and conduct an interview with Zoe Gillings-Brier – Britain’s most successful winter sport athlete in terms of world cup podiums. We met at the Striding Edge snowboard launch at the Hemel Snowdome, and not only is she phenomenal snowboarder…
As if a review of Striding Edge, the first eco-friendly British snowboard brand, isn’t exciting enough I got to ride with Olympic boardercross athlete Zoe Gillings-Brier and Britain’s fastest snowboarder Jamie Barrow. We spent a day shredding the Hemel Hempstead snowdome on…
A couple of weeks ago three very exciting things happened. I met an Olympian for the first time since I was a kid, I got to snowboard indoors for the first time, and I attended the Go Race Go Freestyle launch.…
If you’re planning snowboarding holidays in 2015, then you can’t afford to miss this year’s Telegraph Ski and Snowboard Show. It’s your chance to find out what’s going on in the sports, in terms of resorts, operators and the latest…
On a recent mountain biking holiday to Avoriaz my guide was Jean-Noel Calvert (JN). Although not a household name he does have a claim to fame – he is responsible for The Stash which in 2014 CNN named as the best…
It’s hard to imagine how brands like Rip Curl and Quicksilver were once almost completely unknown. These board sports brands may have started small but they had big ideas. They wanted to transform their sports from lifestyles into global enterprises.…
Every year, usually about fifteen minutes after you’ve finished eating your Christmas dinner, the annoying adverts for the January sales start. It’s because this is the time companies start to get desperate to rid themselves of last season’s stock on…
