SnowSphere.com was born of powder lust for snow stories from the more mysterious peaks of the planet. The site published content for seven years (2005-2012) and amassed over one hundred articles about skiing and snowboarding in unusual locations, from India to Iceland, China to Chile. Dozens of people wrote for the site, including several regular columnists, and at its zenith, SnowSphere.com had over 15,000 monthly visitors and 35,000 monthly page views.
The project brought together a set of people who loved writing, loved website design, and loved snow sports in off-piste places. It even helped some of them later get 'proper' jobs. But everything has a lifespan.
And so SnowSphere.com will be preserved as it was then - a monument to everyone who contributed; a little niche corner of the noughties internet - frozen in time.
SnowSphere.com founder and editor Sam Baldwin went on to write hundreds more articles for newspapers, magazines, and guidebooks, as well as two travel-memoir books: For Fukui's Sake: Two years in rural Japan, and Dormice & Moonshine: Falling for Slovenia.
You can see more of his work at: www.SamBaldwin.me.
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Team SnowSphere leave Macedonia and head north for more powder, pines and Serbian lines in Kopaonik
We head to Sweden's far north to sample the serene snowboarding in Björnrike - Sweden's Bear Country
Macedonian powder, blood and blizzards, as SnowSphere heads high into the Shar Planina mountains for a cat-snowboarding adventure in the Balkans
8 snowboarders. 4 former Yugoslavian countries. 1 van. The first installment of SnowSphere's Balkan snowboarding road trip extravaganza takes us to Popova Shapka in Macedonia to sample the snow and spirits of this rarely visited country.
The Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead celebrates the new season with great discounts and several interesting attractions
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Mark McGettigan, former editor of Snowboard UK, heads to the country of Georgia in search of snowboarding and shots of vodka...
We review Snow-search Japan - the first ski guide to Japan to be published in 15 years - and find it was well worth the wait...
