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Dog sledding
“Lapland has got
some fairly priced,
reasonable trips for
groups of up to 12.
You’ll have a leader
and each person will
have two or four dogs
and a sledge. You
follow the main sledge
of maybe 10 dogs and
the leader, and there
are cabins along the
way to stop off for the
night and breakfast.”
Fly via Stockholm
to Kiruna (Lapland).
Trips with The Silent
Way (
dogsledding-
adventures.com
) cost
from €1,843 pp
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Downhill skiing
“Supertravel used
to have a deal that if
we filled one of their
chalets at Courcheval
with paying friends,
we had a free holiday,
so that’s what we did
for many years, for
the downhill and
the après ski.”
Supertravel chalets
(
supertravel.co.uk
) in
Zermatt (fly to Zurich,
from €1,060 pp pw), St
Anton (fly to Innsbruck,
prices from €600 pp
pw) and Courcheval
(fly to Geneva, from
€866 pp pw) sleep
from 6 to 14 people
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Bavarian
excursion
“My late wife, Ginny,
and I liked to organise
trips to Bavaria: just
for us and a few
friends. We’d stay
around [the resort
area of] Oberjoch-
Bad Hindelang –
that’s good for both
downhill and cross-
country skiing.”
Fly to Munich. Visit
oberjoch.info
,
skiresort.info
or
bergbahnen-
hindelang-oberjoch.de
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Ski Norway
“Voss, in Norway [a
lakeside ski resort
between the Sogne
and Hardanger fjords
on the west coast] has
brilliant skiing.”
Fly to Bergen.
Accommodation
from €754 pw for
up to three people
through Voss Resort
vossresort.no
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Winter kayaking
“You can take river
journeys along the
Norwegian rivers. If
you go to Bergen and
go along to the local
travel companies, they
will offer you winter
river travel in boats
and canoes.”
Fly to Bergen.
Kayak trips with
Nordic Ventures
(
nordicventures.com
)
start from €92pp
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Ski Scotland
“In February, cross-
country skiing around
the Glenmore Lodge
area of Aviemore
in the Cairngorms
can be great fun,
as well as downhill
skiing on Aviemore’s
White Lady run.”
Fly to Inverness. Visit
cairngormmountain.
org
for information on
skiing near Aviemore
Sir Ranulph Fiennes on
Winter adventures
You don’t have to go to the poles: the adventurer chooses his fave European trips
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