309: La Clusaz, Candide Thovex's Skis & Verbier’s Ski Patrol

About this episode

The episode covers La Clusaz, Candide Thovex's new skis, and the first woman on Verbier's ski patrol, along with various snow reports and news updates.

We visit La Clusaz and find out about local freeride skier Candide Thovex’s new range of skis. We also go to Verbier to learn what it was like to become the first woman to work on their ski patrol. We have snow reports from Flaine in France, Via Lattea in Italy and St Anton in Austria, news on the class action lawsuit going on in the States and there’s a Team GB update as well. Host Iain Martin was joined by Victoria Jamieson, the first woman to join the Verbier ski patrol, and Tony McWilliam, the founder of Faction Skis and designer of Candide Thovex’s new line of skis. --------- 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. --------- SHOW NOTES Tony McWilliam is the founder of Faction Skis (2:00) Listen to Iain’s interview with Tony about his story Simon Burgess reports from Flaine (5:00) James and Sinead from Sauze Online are in the Via Lattea (7:00) Andy Butterworth from Kaluma Travel is in St Anton (8:30) A class action lawsuit has been filed against Vail Resorts and Alterra (11:00)…

People in this episode

Host: Iain Martin

Guests: Victoria Jamieson, Tony McWilliam

Topics covered

• freeride skiing
• ski patrol
• snow reports
• class action lawsuit
• Team GB update

Keywords

• La Clusaz
• Candide Thovex
• Verbier
• ski patrol
• snow reports
• class action lawsuit
• Team GB

Sponsors

Tirol

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Faction Skis, Vail Resorts, Alterra

Places: La Clusaz, Verbier, Flaine, Via Lattea, St Anton

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