What ski journalists do in the summer

People always ask me what I do in the summer. I’m the ski correspondent on the Times so it’s a fair question. In fact, more often than not, I’m writing about skiing on some of the hottest days of the year.  Why’s that, you ask? Well, most newspapers and magazines run their ski features between September and early February. September might seem to early to begin and February might seem to early to finish but it’s all to do with when people traditionally book their ski holidays. As soon as there’s a chill in the air and people have had the last of the summer holidays, thoughts often turn to a winter holiday and so this is when ski companies start to bring out their new brochures and advertise in the newspapers and magazines.  Newspapers and magazines naturally follow this commercial flow. So that’s what I do in the summer.