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How to create the perfect alpine container

How to create the perfect alpine container

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more If you’re bored with pansies and primroses for spring containers, there’s an easy alternative if you go for alpine candidates. Alpines – from succulent sempervivums to pretty saxifrages – come into their own in spring and early summer, clothing pots in interesting flowers and foliage and best of all, most are cold hardy, coming from cool, mountainous regions. The peak time for alpines is after the first spring bulbs start coming up, until mid-May. But where do you start? Create a good match Whether you are using an alpine rock, a terracotta pan or an old Belfast sink, create a cohesive look, matching the rock or container with the top dressing, to give it more of a natural landscape, suggests Lauren Fear, alpine horticulturist …

Alpine skiing-Women’s GS sparks ‘junior slope’ jibe but Shiffrin praises piste’s safety

Alpine skiing-Women’s GS sparks ‘junior slope’ jibe but Shiffrin praises piste’s safety

Published by Sam Flores

(Adds dropped word in headline) By Julien Pretot CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, ITALY, Feb 15 : The two leading giant slalom racers of the season delivered a blunt verdict on the Olympic course on Sunday, with Switzerland’s Camille Rast saying the hill felt “like a junior race slope” after a race that left her and Austria’s Julia Scheib just outside the podium places. Rast, who finished 12th and 0.37 seconds off the medals, said the layout — flat after a strong top section and unforgiving to mistakes — was not like a traditional giant slalom. “I would love to race on the real slalom slope from the World Champs, because that’s a real slalom slope. This is like a junior race slope. But that’s life. We are at the Olympics and we take what we have to do,” said Rast, second in the giant slalom World Cup standings. American Mikaela Shiffrin, who placed 11th, instead praised the piste’s safety and spectacle. “I don’t think anybody would say there was danger on this hill today. It was actually …

U.S. Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin finishes another Olympic race without a medal : NPR

U.S. Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin finishes another Olympic race without a medal : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

United States’ Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course, during an alpine ski, women’s giant slalom race, at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. Marco Trovati/AP hide caption toggle caption Marco Trovati/AP CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — U.S. Alpine skiing legend Mikaela Shiffrin is running out of chances to medal in the 2026 Winter Games, after falling short again in giant slalom under stunning blue skies in the mountains above Cortina. Shiffrin has won more World Cup races than any other skier in history and she has been the overall leader in this winter’s World Cup standings ahead of competition here. But the Olympics have long stymied Shiffrin, since her stunning disappointment in 2022, when she left the Beijing Games empty-handed despite entering all six Alpine events. The giant slalom, in particular, has been a challenge for Shiffrin. She won gold in the event in the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea. But she has struggled since a crash in 2024 during a giant slalom race in Killington, Vt., in which …

Alpine ski great Vonn says she needs multiple surgeries for complex leg fracture but has no regrets

Alpine ski great Vonn says she needs multiple surgeries for complex leg fracture but has no regrets

Published by Sam Flores

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 9 : Ski great Lindsey Vonn said she suffered a complex leg fracture in Sunday’s downhill race at the Milano Cortina Olympics that will require multiple surgical operations. The 41-year-old added in an Instagram post that she had no regrets and that her anterior cruciate ligament rupture and other past injuries were not linked to the fall in her bid to win the gold, which went to her U.S. teammate Breezy Johnson. Vonn, the second most successful female World Cup skier of all time with 84 wins, has had two operations in Italy, a source said, to stabilise her after an horrific crash 13 seconds into one of the most hotly anticipated races at the Winter Olympics.   “Yesterday my Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would. It wasn’t a story book ending or a fairy tale, it was just life. I dared to dream and had worked so hard to achieve it. Because in downhill ski racing the difference between a strategic line and a catastrophic injury …

Alpine skiing-Cortina smiles on Johnson after previous pain

Alpine skiing-Cortina smiles on Johnson after previous pain

Published by Sam Flores

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 8 : Cortina d’Ampezzo’s Olimpia della Tofane piste wrecked Breezy Johnson’s Olympic downhill hopes four years ago but made amends on Sunday, even if the gold medal came apart minutes after being hung round her neck. Johnson held up the separated components – the chunky medal, clasp and ribbon – in the post-race press conference after becoming the first U.S. medallist of the Milano Cortina Games in the opening race of the women’s Alpine ski programme. “I was jumping in excitement and it broke. I’m sure somebody will fix it. It’s not like crazy broken but it’s a little broken,” she said.  ‘HEART ACHES’ FOR LINDSEY VONN The pain this time was for others – teammate Lindsey Vonn who was flown to hospital after a horrific crash while attempting to become the oldest Alpine Olympic medallist at the age of 41 and with a severely injured left knee. “My heart aches for her. It’s such a brutal sport sometimes,” said Johnson. Four years ago it was Johnson’s heart that was aching …

Alpine skiing-Relaxed Odermatt keeps his powder dry in downhill training

Alpine skiing-Relaxed Odermatt keeps his powder dry in downhill training

Published by Sam Flores

BORMIO, Italy, Feb 5 : Swiss favourite Marco Odermatt was not hitting the panic button after setting only the 23rd-fastest time in the second training run for the Olympic men’s downhill on Thursday. The 28-year-old had been third fastest on Wednesday in much slower conditions but appeared content to use his second run down the Stelvio as a fact-finding mission. Odermatt is the dominant force in men’s ski racing and leads the World Cup standings in downhill, super-G and giant slalom and is being tipped for multiple golds in Bormio. After Wednesday’s cloud and soft snow conditions, the sun came out on Thursday and the 3.3km track quickened up significantly, with the Italian speed team setting the pace. Odermatt had the brakes on during the closing stages of his run and was relaxed about his day’s work. “They cleaned up the whole track, (there is) less fresh snow from the day before and already a little bit more bumpy – but we know Bormio is usually bumpy like that. It was nice to ski,” Odermatt, …

Alpine skiing-Norway suffer second blow as Moeller injured in training run

Alpine skiing-Norway suffer second blow as Moeller injured in training run

Published by Sam Flores

BORMIO, Italy, Feb 4 : Norway suffered a second blow this week as racer Fredrik Moeller was taken to hospital after crashing in the men’s first downhill training run at the Milano Cortina Olympics on Wednesday. Norway, usually among the leading contenders in men’s alpine skiing, have already lost Aleksander Aamodt Kilde to injury.  The 25-year-old Moeller, with a Bormio gold in super-G under his belt from the 2024 World Cup, dislocated his left shoulder, team doctor Trond Floberghagen said in a statement. He suffered no other injuries and treatment has gone well, but it is still unclear if Moeller will participate in the Games. Kilde, who made his comeback from injury earlier this season after nearly two years on the sidelines, pulled out of the Olympics on Tuesday after failing to regain full fitness. The 33-year-old won a bronze medal in the super-G at the 2022 Beijing Games. The timing of Moeller’s crash was not great for the Norwegian team’s spirit, said racer Adrian Smiseth Sejersted, who was still looking ahead optimistically.  “Now we’re …

Outdoor Vitals Vantage Alpine Puffer Jacket Review: Perfect Spring Puffer

Outdoor Vitals Vantage Alpine Puffer Jacket Review: Perfect Spring Puffer

Published by skeptic

I’ll confess I would have a nerdy admiration for ExpeDry down even if it didn’t work, just for its use of basic chemistry, which even I dimly remember from high school but for some reason never made it into a product until recently. What’s even better is that it does work. I don’t have a lab, and I’m not particularly interested in what happens in one anyway, but I am a backpacker, living in a cold climate, with a deep dislike for being cold. In the real world, where I live, if your jacket loses loft and you get cold, bad things happen. In my testing, the Vantage jacket loses almost no loft throughout the day, even when I am active and sweating in it. Better Than DWR? Photograph: Scott Gilbertson Outdoor Vitals is not the first to use ExpeDry. Marmot, Katabatic Gear, and many others also have various sleeping bags and jackets with ExpeDry down, but the Vantage is the first time I have noticed a real difference. The Vantage has less fill than …

Alpine Skier Ryan Cochran-Siegle’s Starter Pack: Winter Olympics 2026

Alpine Skier Ryan Cochran-Siegle’s Starter Pack: Winter Olympics 2026

Published by skeptic

Ryan Cochran-Siegle was practically born on skis. He started sliding around Vermont snow at age 2 and grew up in one of the most storied families in American alpine racing. His grandparents built a nonprofit ski area in 1961, and his mother, Barbara Ann Cochran, won Olympic gold in Sapporo in 1972. When Cochran-Siegle made the US national alpine team in 2011, he joined his cousin, two-time Olympian Jimmy Cochran. But Cochran-Siegle’s career hasn’t been an inheritance story. It’s been shaped by catastrophic injuries, long rehabs, and a steady belief that his best skiing was still ahead of him. Cochran-Siegle is no longer the wide-eyed rookie who debuted in Pyeongchang or the comeback story who won silver in the super-G at Beijing 2022 and was the only US alpine skier to medal at those Games. “I’m more established as a skier,” Cochran-Siegle tells WIRED. “There’s some confidence to take into it.” Before a race, Cochran-Siegle looks for a warm-up slope, practicing movement patterns and “getting all the wheels greased.” He wants to feel like the …

Alpine skiing-Blanc wins home super-G in Crans-Montana as Olympics approach

Alpine skiing-Blanc wins home super-G in Crans-Montana as Olympics approach

Published by Sam Flores

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland, Jan 31 : Swiss racer Malorie Blanc won a super-G on home snow in Crans-Montana on Saturday for her first World Cup success in the last women’s event before the Milano Cortina Olympics start next week. Italy’s super-G World Cup leader Sofia Goggia and downhill world champion Breezy Johnson of the United States finished second and third in a race with a sombre backdrop after a bar fire claimed 40 lives in the Swiss resort this month. The words “Our thoughts are with you” were written in white lettering on a black background across the front of the start hut and at the finish where sponsor branding would normally feature.     “To bring something like this to Crans-Montana, it means so much to me,” said Blanc. U.S. great Lindsey Vonn, who was taken to hospital on Friday after crashing and injuring her left knee in a downhill that was later called off, did not start. Blanc, 22, had only one previous podium finish – a second in downhill in St Anton a year ago …