Episode Details

Today we find out about La Tzoumaz in Switzerland and Jasna in Slovakia, plus we preview the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics including interviews with Vicky Gosling, CEO of GB Snowsports and Zak, Luca and Freddy Carrick Smith. 

We also have our regular snow reports and share our downloadable schedule for all the skiing and snowboarding events at Milan-Cortina.

Iain was joined in the studio by Irish ski journalist, Catherine Murphy and Slovakia resident, Richard Patey.
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Tirol in Austria sponsors The Ski Podcast, which means this winter we’re are finding out more about some of the great destinations in Tirol, and how you can connect with the Austrian way of life: ‘Lebensgefühl’ – that you’ll find there.
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SHOW NOTES

Dave Burrows from Snowpros Ski School reported from Morgins (3:45)
James Cove from planetski.eu reports from Revelstoke and Kicking Horse in Canada (5:00)
Guy Beatson has been in Furano in Japan (6:00)
The Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics start on 06 February (7:30)
Download the skiing and snowboarding schedule (8:00)
Team GB athletes picked up a stunning five medals at the X Games in Aspen (8:45)
Listen to Iain’s interview with Kirsty Muir (9:15)
Listen to Iain’s interview with Zoe Atkin (9:15)
Mia Brookes spoke to Iain in Episode 188 (9:15)
Vicky Gosling is CEO of GB Snowsport (9:30)
Watch the documentary ‘She Who Dares’ on Discovery+ (16:00)
Watch the Carrick-Smith documentary ‘Beyond the Gate’ on Amazon Prime or YouTube (20:30)
Catherine shared her knowledge of Innsbruck in Episode 257 (21:00)
Find out more about La Tzoumaz in Switzerland (21:15)
The name comes from Valaisan dialect (21:45)
How to get there (22:15)
Catherine stayed at the Hotel Papillon (27:45)
We featured Slovakia on the podcast once before, back in Episode 243 covering ‘Going East’ (29:00)
Where is Slovakia? (29:30)
Read Richard’s blog post about the transformation going  on in the High Tatras (31:00)
‘Slovakia is entering its “Austria-in-the-90s” phase’
Jasna is the biggest resort (33:30)
Richard (and the ‘Going East’ crew’ skied at Stary Smokovec (35:00)
The GoPass  covers all resorts as well as other benefits (36:30)
Tatranska Lomnica and Štrbské Pleso are also in Slovakia
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