Skiing, I skied since I was a kid going on holidays to the Alps with my family once a year. We were also lucky to have Avon dry-ski slope nearby so I could ski

Skiing, I skied since I was a kid going on holidays to the Alps with my family once a year. We were also lucky to have Avon dry-ski slope nearby so I could ski after a fashion in the south of the UK. I snowboarded through my teenage years and then fell out of it when I was a student and couldn’t afford it! In my mid-twenties I met a crazy New Zealander at work, got into ski touring after shaking some of the rust off, skied all over Scotland including a bunch of gullies people normally climb and generally got much, much better. Then I moved to Iceland which when the conditions are good is a ski touring paradise. Skied all over here, various bits of the world (Japan is unreal!) took part in the first freeride comp in Scotland and have generally had a lot of fun. I’ve calmed down a lot with two kids, it’s a bit unfair to everyone to disappear on day+ long trips all the time. I’m really enjoying teaching them to ski and pootling about on the piste as a family. It’s a sport like climbing or swimming which I also love where you can feel when you’re doing it right and everything flows effortlessly.