#Skiing is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 40 people shared 1,188 posts with it — around 40 a day. Activity is down 5% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 25 with 46 posts.

Posts with #Skiing

Ella Maillart

@ellamaillart.bsky.social

1 day ago

Ella Maillart visually captured the early 20th century 'ski bunny' culture in this portrait. The two antennae behind her head were actually the tips of a pair of wooden skis positioned right behind her!!! #Photography #Switzerland #Murren #Skiing #EllaMaillart #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Ella Maillart standing at a ski gathering in a snowy landscape, wearing a classic 1930s canvas sports sun visor featuring built-in, plush ear protectors for warmth against the winter chill.

The two distinct sticks rising behind her head were actually the tips of a pair of wooden skis positioned right behind her, rather than a physical part of her headwear. The framing creates a humorous, accidental visual illusion that makes them look like insect antennae or a whimsical headband decoration.

Ella was wearing a spacious, buttoned canvas windbreaker jacket complete with the Swiss patch on the sleeve. Beside her, another skier was clad in thick, heavy wool trousers designed to repel moisture and snow.

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VT365

@abzzzz.bsky.social

8 months ago

Powder hound. #VT365 #DogsOfBluesky #SnowSports #Skiing #Snowboarding

A photo of a medium sized dog named Jojo whose face and chin are covered with snow. She is standing in a doorway.

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Ella Maillart

@ellamaillart.bsky.social

4 days ago

Ella Maillart represented Switzerland at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships in Mürren (1931), Cortina d'Ampezzo (1932), Innsbruck (1933) and St. Moritz (1934). #Photography #Switzerland #Murren #Skiing #EllaMaillart #AlexWalterDiggelmann #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Alex Walter Diggelmann, Mürren, Die Renntage der Kanonen, Farblithographie, 128 x 90 cm.

This poster was produced in 1931 to advertise the first FIS Alpine World Ski Championships from 19-22 February. It consisted of just four events, downhill and slalom for men and women. Australia, Austria, Germany, Britain, Italy and Switzerland participated in the competition.

The poster also promoted the fourth Arlberg-Kandahar race (better known now as ‘The Inferno Downhill’) on March 15-16. The race was started in 1928 by a group of ski-crazed daredevil Brits who bravely tackled the dangerous and treacherous run, unpisted and with no gates, no helmets, special clothing, no spectators or judges. The 17 Kandahar members simply climbed to the summit of the Schilthorn over two days, before setting off in a mass start for the race to Lauterbrunnen in the valley bottom.

The Kandahar Ski Club was started in 1924 by Sir Arnold Lunn and some fellow British skiers at the Palace Hotel in Murren to raise the standard of downhill and slalom skiing and secure international recognition for the sports. He had already founded the Alpine Ski Club in 1908 and the Ladies Ski Club in 1923.

The expressionistic Art Deco piece used a dynamic diagonal composition to convey raw speed and movement. The skier was captured mid-turn, crouching deeply and leaning forcefully against a steep white slope, weaving rapidly between red slalom gates. The cool blue typography balanced with the stark white snow and vibrant red accent flags made it highly sought after by collectors of vintage alpine art.

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Ella Maillart

@ellamaillart.bsky.social

5 days ago

"The only way to meet every year the expense of four months of skiing was to send to the press accounts of the races in which my compatriots and I took part." #Photography #Monochrome #Switzerland #Travel #Adventure #Skiing #EllaMaillart #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #ECK

Ella Maillart at a ski race in Switzerland holding what appears to be a small notebook. She appears focused, wearing a vintage-style visor, a hooded jacket and a specialised neck covering.

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Ella Maillart

@ellamaillart.bsky.social

3 days ago

Over 40 years after representing Switzerland at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships, Ella Maillart contributed this essay to the Ladies' Ski Club Bulletin, 1977 ... 👇🏼 #Photography #Switzerland #Adventure #Skiing #EllaMaillart #British #LadiesSkiClub #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Historic copies of the Ladies' Ski Club bulletin are publicly available at https://www.ladiesskiclub.org/historic-copies-of-the-bulletin

The first Alpine Ski Club founded by Arnold Lunn in 1908 had denied membership to women. At his suggestion, the Ladies' Ski Club was established in 1923 in Mürren, Switzerland, contrary to suggestions that his purpose was actually to dissuade women from joining the Alpine Club.

In 1929 a letter was received inviting the British to send skiers to compete in an event in Poland. The organisers in Zakopane were surprised to find that the British team included LSC founder members Doreen Elliott and Audrey Sale-Barker as the only races they were qualified to race were designated as for men only. The ladies were allowed to join the skiers on the condition that they could not win prizes.

Today, the LSC supports British female snowsports competitors, encourages women in skiing and builds international fellowship.

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Admirable Women

@admirablewomen.bsky.social

8 months ago

British explorer Felicity Aston is the first woman to ski solo across Antarctica 😮 --from coast to coast, relying only on her own strength. ⛷️ #OTD in 2011, her 1,084-mile (1,744-km), 59-day journey began. #adventure #trek #firsts #skiing startupsmagazine.co.uk/in….

Felicity Aston MBE, the first woman to ski solo across Antarctica, during her 2012 expedition. She is sitting on the ice in a green Berghaus expedition jacket with a Union Jack patch, fur-rimmed hood up, looking off into the distance. Her red pulk sled is behind her under a vast white horizon. Inset portrait shows her smiling warmly in a green fleece.

Map of Felicity Aston’s historic 2011–2012 solo crossing of Antarctica. The red-and-black dotted line traces her 1,744 km route: starting November 25, 2011 ,from the Ross Ice Shelf (green dot), skiing across the Transantarctic Mountains, past Leverett Glacier, the geographic South Pole, up the Antarctic Plateau, and finishing at Hercules Inlet (red dot) in the upper left of the map.

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Shadowmac Photography 📸🇨🇦

@shadowmacphotos.bsky.social

7 months ago

Powder Peaks - E.C. Manning Provincial Park, British Columbia 🇨🇦 #winter #snow #mountains #skiing #outdoors #manningpark #crisp #cold #nature #explorebc #travel #blueskyartshow #panorama #stunday #landscapephotography #calm #tranquil #sharecangeo #bcparks #explorecanada #britishcolumbia #canada

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Shadowmac Photography 📸🇨🇦

@shadowmacphotos.bsky.social

7 months ago

Peak Majesty - Manning Park, British Columbia 🇨🇦 #mountains #snow #winter #skiing #hike #nature #canada #manningpark #landscapephotography #cold #travel #outdoors #peak #explorebc #backroads #blueskyartshow #panorama #scape #powder #forest #pano #calm #photography #explorecanada #britishcolumbia

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Ella Maillart

@ellamaillart.bsky.social

5 days ago

Ella Maillart and Rösli Streiff (right) at the Alpine World Ski Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, 1932. Rosli won gold medals in both the slalom and combined events. #Photography #Switzerland #Alpine #Skiing #EllaMaillart #RosliStreiff #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #ECK

Rosli Streiff began competing in ski races in 1928 and, along with Ella Maillart, became a founding member of the Swiss Ladies Ski Club (SDS) in 1929, working to organise and promote women's competitive skiing in Switzerland.

In this photo they were wearing simple woollen jerseys with Swiss cross badges and holding traditional wooden ski poles.

Rosli reached the peak of her career in early February 1932 when she won two gold medals at the World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo, winning the slalom event and the combined. She first finished eighth in the downhill and the next day became world champion in the slalom, beating Britain's Audrey Sale-Barker by more than ten seconds, securing her the world title in the combined event.

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Anne de Haas 📷

@mbug.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Osler Bluffs #photography #winter #Osler #skiing #ontario

Ski slopes getting some snow making help at Osler Bluffs Ontario.

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Ella Maillart

@ellamaillart.bsky.social

7 days ago

'Getting Ready To Work In The Early Morning', Ski-Hütte Schwendi Restaurant, Conters im Prättigau, Switzerland. "It was a grand life, illumined by the legendary deeds of my companions, the world's best skiers." #Photography #Switzerland #Skiing #EllaMaillart #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

Skiers dressed in historical winter gear, with wooden skis and poles scattered in the snow are gathered outside the Ski-Hütte Schwendi Restaurant (known today as Berghaus Alte Schwendi).

Set against a snowy mountain landscape, it has served as a mountain hut and restaurant catering to skiers and winter travellers. Initially used as a traditional seasonal alpine farmhouse (Maiensäss), the structure was first utilised as a guest house and ski hut in 1925.

"I was a member of the international Swiss team four years running, at Murren, in Italy and Austria, and at St Moritz." - Cruises and Caravans, The Glory Of Ski-ing

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❄ SkiWeather.eu

@skiweather.bsky.social

7 months ago

Low temperatures in the Alps for Monday Jan 12th (tomorrow). Valley-to-mountain differences can be big. #temperature #alps #skiing #weather #skiweather skiweather.eu/temperature