Erciyes or Palandöken? Choosing Between Turkey's Two Biggest Mountains
Erciyes has more terrain and Cappadocia next door. Palandöken has better snow, a longer season and a real city at its base. Here is how to choose.
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Five new articles a week on equipment, resorts, technique and safety.
Erciyes has more terrain and Cappadocia next door. Palandöken has better snow, a longer season and a real city at its base. Here is how to choose.
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Eastern Anatolia produces powder as dry as anywhere in Europe. Here is where it falls, when to go, and what you need to ride it safely.
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Most Turkish resorts close in March. Palandöken can run into May — empty pistes, warm sun and snow that is still dry if you get the timing right.
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Turkey's season runs from late November at Palandöken to early May in a good year. Here is the resort-by-resort calendar and the weeks to avoid.
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Most collisions on a piste come from one rule not being known: the skier below has right of way. Here are all ten, explained.
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With the wrong lens on a foggy day you will not see the bumps in the piste at all. This guide matches tints to conditions using VLT values.
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