archive for the ‘other activities’ category

back in june

June 23rd, 2010

A look back at the goings on at Up and Downhill in June in previous years. This is a quick selection of our favourite posts, guests enjoying a holiday, climbing at a nearby hotspot and some twitter musings.

back in may

May 3rd, 2010

A look back as the goings on at Up and Downhill in May in previous years. This is a quick selection of our favourite posts, a May ski tour and loads of getting ready for the bike season.

tobogganing the austrian way

March 5th, 2010

Overhang

If we aren’t skiing or snowboarding on the mountains then we need to find other methods of sliding around the countryside. Cue, tobogganing. Bum board, shovels, inflatable tyres….

schafsiedel ski touring

April 14th, 2009

Around 1500m

Ski touring is a relatively new experience for me. I’m starting to understand why we are seeing and hearing more and more about ski tourers over the last few years. The tranquility and…

turtle club

April 9th, 2009

Noah in the TC hat

It seems like the titles for our blog posts are getting stranger and stranger. Is this a blog about winter skiing holidays and mountain bike holidays or just random ramblings? We promise…

skiing isn’t everything

March 31st, 2009

Our toboggan chute

Over the last few weeks, we’ve shown you many photos (there are lots more on our flickr page and our guest gallery) and written about our adventures skiing with the guests. There has been the occasional…

up up and away

January 21st, 2009

filling up

One moment you’re sat behind your desk, tapping away at the keyboard, wishing you were outside skiing. Then, you get a call and your wife says that there is a spare place in a hot air balloon and would I like to go?…

exploring the skiwelt

December 15th, 2008

Siller-Keat Chairlift

With a load of new yellow stars dotted all over the Skiwelt Wilder Kaiser Brixental piste map saying NEU! I took the time to go and reccie as much as I could today. A lot of the development this year has taken place in Soell so it was there that I was headed…

skiwelt season open

December 8th, 2008

With the latest dumping of snow, I was excited about getting out for a bit of skiing. Only a couple of hours as I had home duties to attend to. The ’skiwelt’ (ski world) that we live in…

noah william holt

December 3rd, 2008

It has been a woefully long time since we’ve posted on our blog, apologies to our readers. The simple and 100% fantastic reason is that we’ve had a little boy! Manu and baby Noah are happy and healthy and after a little bit of an extended stay…