mountain bike holidays and the guides ramblings

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.

A look back as the goings on at Up and Downhill in April in previous years. This is a quick selection of our favourite posts, including top 10 photos and a stunning ski tour.

Our latest day by day snippets of news and activities that we have been up to. Skiing, eating out and finally getting back on the mountain bike…

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….

Our latest day by day snippets of news and activities that we have been up to. Loads of skiing, some snow photos that might even be deeper than England and just a little bit of mountain biking…

A new format on an old post. Check out the winter Polo event we visit each year. Loads of action and the odd tumble or two…

After checking the avalanche daily report and trying our best to judge the amount of snow at our start point. We chose a ski tour that started only half an hour from the farm. We chose a ski tour…

Our latest day by day quick snippets of news and activities that we have been up to. Find out about how Austrians celebrate their holidays (and the Brits). Also included are a few photos that we’ve taken on the mobile as well…

The festival events start even earlier in Austria than England (apart from the TV ads in the UK which I really don’t miss). I apologise for the lack of mountain biking…

Heading into the last couple of weeks of the guiding season and lo and behold we get a huge cold front coming our way. After a little dreary rain, the weather took a turn for the worse and the temperature plummeted. Needless to say…