snowboarding
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421Always Look At Your Landing – The Terje Haakonsen interview
The number of superlatives I could throw at Terje Haakonsen are limitless. The 48 year old Norwegian has always been considered the...
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358The Diary of Mia Brookes – World Champion
Hi Morzine Source Magazine readers, Mia here, back for another winter to update you on my life as a freestyle snowboarder, travelling...
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472The Diary of Vicky Brookes – Mia’s Mum
While all eyes have been on Mia’s incredible progress over the last few years, it’s often Vicky’s story that fascinates me the...
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297Safe Skiing is Your Responsibility – The Piste X Code
Here at the Piste X Code we have a couple of objectives, but the most important one is to help you stay...
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378Failiure is not an option – The Jeremy Jones interview
I don’t feel comfortable reminding you of these things. In fact, it goes against everything that we, as a magazine, are here...
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876The 2022/23 Lift Pass Price Comparison
Each year we compare the standard price of an adult six-day lift pass in the Portes du Soleil with pass prices across...
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664Past, Present and Future
Bonjour! Mia Brookes here, I hope you are all doing good! Hopefully you are all shredding it back on the mountains after...
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1.3KThis Weekend in Morzine, Avoriaz & Les Gets
Today marks the official start of the Winter 2022 season in Avoriaz 1800, where there’s so much snow that the resort partially...
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1.0KPre-season skiing in Avoriaz, Les Gets & St Jean d’Aulps
You wait 21 months for a ski lift to turn, then two arrive at once! Following a rather spectacular snowfall this week...
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829The track Ahead
Gatwick airport, 5am: a sea of a thousand grumpy faces, shuffling in queues, headed for the Alps. It’s not a great start...
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1.1KBelle et Brave
Female Ski Patrol. Most people don’t know who they are or what they do. These Lara Crofts of the hill are the...
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1.4KThe Facts about Climate change and the future of snow in the Portes du Soleil
Have you wondered what climate change actually signifies in our valley and what the news headlines, facts and figures might mean on...
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1.2K“It’s just me, my snowboard and the mountain”
Inside the perfectly balanced world of Katie Ormerod. Usually, when I begin to piece together an interview with an athlete for this...
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680HOPE – A short film by Morzine Source Magazine
These are the faces you hope never to see; the heroes you hope never to meet. Come freezing temperatures, snow storms or...
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944The Woodman
I’m often asked whether I’m an artist or a carpenter and this is a question I ask myself too. Let’s say I’m...
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531HOPE – Raising Awareness & Funds for Secours en Montagne
These are the faces you hope never to see; the heroes you hope never to meet. Come freezing temperatures, snow storms or...
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1.5KThe Lockdown Diary of Mia Brookes (aged 14)
Hi, my name is Mia Brookes and I’m fourteen years old. I snowboard for Team GB. I have been snowboarding since I...
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775The Mountain for everyone
As a ski instructor, you learn a lot of lessons over the years. In the early years, you start off with all...
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1.4KA special end to the season
This blog originally appeared on the excellent website of Les Gets lift operator SaGets at the beginning of April 2020. With their...
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822A Yogi in Japan – a travel diary
As a Yoga teacher I’ve spent the last five years travelling around the world, from one mountain town to the next, hunting...
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1.7KA Second Chance at Life
I’d lived in Morzine for about six years, and life was pretty good. I worked at The Bec Jaune as a chef,...
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2.1KMia Brookes – No Pressure
Who can forget the bruised bums, achey wrists and mental frustrations that come with learning to snowboard? For me, the pain of...
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4.1KEd Leigh: The art of self control and self belief
It’s hard to think of many more recognisable faces in British snowboarding than Ed Leigh, probably because over the last twenty or...