Inspiring Travel Writing from Arnie Wilson: Page 3 of 5
Articles by Arnie Wilson: Page 3 of 5
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Snow Business
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Arnie Wilson
Doing business on the golf course is a well-established ploy, but combining business with pleasure doesn’t come much more pleasurably than in the mountains, where invigoratingly clear and crisp air, blue skies and the prospect of skiing after...
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Heavenly Skiing
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Arnie Wilson
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United States
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California
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Lake Tahoe
To obtain the air the angels breathe, said Mark Twain, “you must go to Tahoe”. Whether Twain would have approved of today’s intriguing contrast of skiing and bling-riddled gambling joints is difficult to say. Heavenly is as much about gambling as...
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Ski Ischgl
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Arnie Wilson
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Austria
Note to self: always bring own skis, even when early-season conditions (i.e. no snow) could mean wrecking them. The Austrians have finally followed the Americans into computerised rentals, which means entering your vital statistics (including...
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Ski Kirkwood
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Arnie Wilson
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United States
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California
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Kirkwood
Big cobalt sky. Jagged granite peaks thrown up by ancient volcanic eruptions, piled high with snow. It just needs a Jimmy Stewart or a Charlton Heston on horseback plodding through the deep snow to make it a Hollywood set piece. Nothing has really...
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Cat Skiing
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Arnie Wilson
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Canada
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British Columbia
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Rocky Mountains
I have never ridden in a tank, but I would imagine that trundling up a mountain with 11 ski companions in a Pisten Bully snowcat is infinitely preferable. North American Cat skiing – which always prompts feline jokes - is a little like helicopter...
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Old Blokes on Skis
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Arnie Wilson
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Slovenia
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Ljubljana Region
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Ljubljana
Slovenia is roughly the size of East Anglia - rather less flat, admittedly, but with a much briefer coastline. More like Switzerland in its contours but considerably smaller than that country too - only 20,273 sq km, and barely 300km across. It is...
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Skiing off-piste in Japan
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Arnie Wilson
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Japan
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Chubu
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Nozawa Onsen
A gradual but irrevocable revolution is starting to percolate through Japan’s ski areas: the act of meandering in deep snow through ubiquitous silver birch rather than sticking to the pistes, or gelande, is no longer regarded as taboo. The last...
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Ski Verbier
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Arnie Wilson
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Switzerland
It’s that difficult to take it all in. There’s something both exasperating and exhilarating about this truly enthralling Swiss ski resort: with its vast array of pistes and off-piste, plus links with three other valleys, you almost need...
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Klammer
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Arnie Wilson
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Austria
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Carinthia
What’s this? The world’s greatest (ex) World Cup downhill racer wearing a helmet? Is Franz Klammer going soft, or just seeing sense as he speeds towards his 55th birthday? Of one thing there is no doubt. Like an ageing gun-slinger,...
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A British ski instructor challenges the Japanese system
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Arnie Wilson
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Japan
Warren Smith's Ski Academy is well-known in the Alps, particularly in Verbier, Switzerland, where Smith lives with his Scottish fiancée Melody Sky, a professional photographer and film maker. The Ski Academy organises a number of events, most...
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