Episodes
Dec. 21, 2025
Ep 94 Val gives Conny Gold, cheese and a calf.
1. Weather 21st December 2025
2. Conny wins cheese and a calf.
3. French brothers in Italian downhill.
4. GBs Jaz Taylor Sprints to Telemark Gold.
5. Go Golden Zoe !
6. Eddie the Eagle Panto Star.
7. Book next season's holiday at this season's price.
8. Tignes Talent Art Competition.
9. Che…
Dec. 20, 2025
Ep 93 Ladies World Cup Downhill in Val today.
1. Weather 20th December 2025
2. Ladies World Cup Downhill on Bellevarde's OK.
3. Last day for the men in Val Gardena.
4. British skier dies in Les Arcs.
5. Olympic Jurassic Park.
6. Sleeping on the Slopes.
7. Noisy student weeks.
8. GB’s snowboard star out for the season.
9. Global Go Caro…
Dec. 18, 2025
Ep 92 The World’s Speediest Ladies are in Town.
1. Weather 18th December 2025
2. Chaos in the Dolomites.
3. The World’s Speediest Ladies are in Town.
4. World Cup men’s downhill in Val Gardena today.
5. Farmers blocking roads today.
6. Fly to short steep Courchevel airport.
7. Man found dead in car boot.
8. Heliskiing deal if you have a s…
Dec. 17, 2025
Ep 91 GBs Freddy Carrick-Smith wins Gold.
1. Weather 17th December 2025.
2. Freddy Carrick-Smith wins Europa Cup Giant Slalom.
3. Mikaela Shiffrin won the Night Slalom.
4. Cyprien Sarrazin is back on skis.
5. Mariah Carey singing at the Winter Olympics.
6. Olympic accommodation.
7. Take your helmet to La Rosière.
8. Check your bindi…
Dec. 16, 2025
Ep 90 Clip on your crampons.
1. Weather 16th December 2025.
2. Crampons for walking safely in town.
3. Episode 90 !! New live piste, lift and webcam links added.
4. Italian Helicopters are moving snow.
5. Snow garments from fishing nets.
6. Tree2Forest
7. Polar Tales at the Barmes de L'Ours.
8. Team GB’s Victoria Palla …
Dec. 15, 2025
Ep 89 Mountain Gendarmes Searched through the night.
1. Weather 15th December 2025.
2. Winter Weekend Traffic.
3. Val's World Cup Men's Slalom.
4. Super G winner saddened by Bondi Beach slaughter.
5. Mikaela Shiffrin missed gate but French Romane came second.
6. Gold for Team GBs Charlotte Banks and Huw Nightingale
7. Zoe’s Chinese Silver.
8. …
Dec. 14, 2025
Skiing vs. Football: Which Sport Really Breaks the Bank?
1. Weather 14 December 2025
2. Val's World Cup Giant Slalom
3. Local Hero Clément Noël racing today in Val's Slalom
4. A proud knee surgeon !
5. Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin racing in the Giant Slalom
6. Don't miss out ! Keep an eye on the Calendar Page.
7. Val's future champions dancing…
Dec. 13, 2025
Ep 87 First races of Val’s 70th Critérium.
1. Weather for The 70th Critérium de la Première Neige.
2. Men's World Cup Giant Slalom on The Face de Bellevarde today.
3. Lindsey Vonn won in St Moritz.
4. 3 Swiss Olympic Champions are injured.
5. Double gold for Australian Mogul skiers.
6. Tik Tok isn’t recommended off piste training.
7. …
Dec. 9, 2025
Ep 86 Happy workers need to live in the resort.
1. Weather 9th December 2025.
2. 19-year-old German climber killed by an avalanche.
3. Train as a ski instructor in Scotland.
4. Utah 2034 logo.
5. Racing to finish cable car and ice hockey rink.
6. Insurance tips.
7. Housing problems in Val and Chamonix.
8. Festive Pastry.
Dec. 8, 2025
Ep 85 Taking Tasty Treats back to the UK could put you in hot water.
1. Weather 8th December 2025.
2. Market Day – remember UK import rules.
3. Val's Black Sheep.
4. Seccotine's Martine has died.
5. No smoking on the pistes.
6. Manslaughter charges.
7. Hiking in trainers and joggers.
8. Jessie Diggins' 30th Win.
9. Macuga sisters are one down.
10. Alice and…
Dec. 7, 2025
EP 84 Folie and Food.
1. Weather 7th December 2025.
2. Street cleaning Doodles.
3. This Week in Val.
4. Evening events at the Folie Douce.
5. The Trifollet opened yesterday.
6. The PoissNon Vegan taco in Tignes’ La Bodega
7. Utah hiker charged with child abuse.
8. Good deal for season hire from Skimum in La Daill…
Dec. 6, 2025
Ep 83 Scottish Kirsty Muir and Val both win firsts.
1. Intro 6 December 2025.
2. Marco Odermatt wins the Beaver Creek Downhill.
3. Mikaela Shiffrin qualifies for her 4th Olympics.
4. Scottish Kirsty Muir wins her first Big Air World Cup title.
5. First prize for Val's communications team.
6. Avalanche in Austria.
7. Watch out for Lynx.
8. Lim…
Nov. 26, 2025
Ep 82 Olympic Flame starts it's Journey.
1. Weather 26th November 2025.
2. Lighting the Olympic Flame
3. Germany's Olympic Champion suspended.
4. French National Service.
5. Crisis in the French Wine Industry.
6. Gremlin in the website show notes.
7. Katie Hensien hopes to be back this season.
8. Slovenian Neja Dvornik's season is …
Nov. 25, 2025
Ep 81 Snowy week before our winter start.
1. Weather 25th November 25.
2. Cars, crampons, snow chains.
3. Mikaela Shiffrin victorious again.
4. French slalom ladies.
5. St Foy in Global Top 10 small resorts.
6. Tree skiing.
7. Additions to the Calendar page.
8. South Wales ski slope and tropical Waterpark.
9. Why not Team GB W…
Nov. 24, 2025
Ep 80 Lone Wolf or a Doodle in the Snow ?
1. Weather 24th November 25.
2. Disappointing start for French Ski Jumpers
3. Cost of skiing.... Europe cheap for Americans.
4. Ski outdoors on real snow in the UK.
5. Kind rescue teams.
6. Was it a wolf or a dog ?
7. Ryan Weddings post-Olympic career.
8. Spot Ryan and nab a swanky flat in V…
Nov. 23, 2025
Ep 79 Matt Weston gets 2 World Cup golds.
1. Weather 23rd November 2025.
2. Tignes opened yesterday.
3. Train Rouge is running.
4. Savoyarde Paco Rassat wins slalom in Gurgl.
5. Cheer for Caitlin McFarlane in Gurgl's World Cup Slalom.
6. 2 World Cup Skeleton golds for Team GB.
7. Swiss champion Lara Gut-Bahrami is injured.
8. Jessie…
Nov. 22, 2025
Ep 78 World Cup and Yeti races.
1. Weather 22nd November 2025
2. Tignes opens today.
3. World Cup Slalom and Freeski Slopestyle today.
4. Join Snowsport England to Race in Bormio
5. Toy sale today.
6. Val in the press.
7. Yeti race in Tignes tomorrow.
8. Folie Douce Saisonnaires party.
9. New fee on small parcels.
10. …
Nov. 21, 2025
Ep 77 Snow, rules, taxes and bans.
1. Weather 21st November 2025.
2. Cairngorm Mountain opening this weekend.
3. AirBnb…. Rules…..fines…
4. Taxes for toilets.
5. Hiker hitched by a belt.
6. Neck guards for Olympic Ice Hockey players.
7. Environmental considerations for J.O. 2030.
8. Alcohol ban in Sölden.
9. No uphill on Obe…
Nov. 20, 2025
Ep 76 Ep 76 Torches in Tignes, to Palermo.
1. Weather 20th November 2025.
2. Tignes is opening on Saturday.
3. Val Thorens wins "World's Best Ski Resort".
4. Olympic Gender Equality improvements.
5. Olympic Torch heading to Naples.
6. Tom Daley knits for the Winter Olympics.
7. Learn to Bobsleigh.
8. Hepatitis A outbreak in Czech Rep…
Nov. 18, 2025
Ep 75 Emily Harrop… French Ski mountaineering star.
1. Weather 18th November 2025.
2. Emily Harrop… French Ski mountaineer.
3. Happy Birthday Lara Colturi.
4. Clément Noël, Dynastar, Lange and Look.
5. The Surrey Schools Championships.
6. Snowcentres, SnowWorld and France.
7. TikTok, the Mountain Guide.
8. White Christmas with Simply Val d’Is…
Nov. 17, 2025
Ep 74 Proud to be British - the men did well in Lapland.
1. Weather 17th November 2025
2. Breakfast beer
3. Men’s racing in Levi - Proud to be British.
4. The Vonn Collective.
5. Marcel Hirscher feeling more optimistic.
6. Cyprien Sarrazin coming as a spectator to Val's Criterium.
7. The Garage 'Welcome-Back' drinks.
8. Caitlin McFarlane skis for …
Nov. 16, 2025
Ep 73 Who will get today's reindeer ?
1. Weather 16th November 2025.
2. Mikaela Shiffrin has a new
Reindeer.
3. 4 racing for Team GB in Levi.
4. Changes on the Autoroutes.
5. St Foy rumour…. Don’t panic !
6. Accident at the Villa Roger bubble lift site.
7. Lucky Utah base jumper.
8. World COPD day.
Nov. 15, 2025
Ep 72 Mikaela Shiffrin Eyes 102nd World Cup Victory, and a new reindeer.
1. Weather 15th November 2025.
2. World Cup Ladies Slalom in Levi Today.
3. 60's snow in London
4. Cyclocross and Cross-country running are not popular.
5. December Deals.
6. Tomorrowland Winter Festival.
7. Novemberfest is tonight.
8. Mont-Blanc tunnel repairs.
9. Café des Parents.
10. Ha…
Nov. 14, 2025
Ep 71 Help others help you - Medical details in your wallet !
1. Weather 14th November 2025.
2. Check Tyres and road closures.
3. New Kids on the Block.
4. Busy weekend ahead !
5. Calculating your season.
6. Treats in Val Thorens
7. Suncream...lots of suncream.
8. Skiing on a Glacier.
9. Win a San Bernardo day pass
10. PLEASE write down your medical…