For those who don’t want to join the piste posse, the traditional ways of enjoying winter holidays are becoming hugely popular again: cross country skiing and snowshoeing off the tourist trail, husky sledding, taking in the Northern Lights or mountain winter walking with crampons to get a grip. Because in winter, we don’t all have to do the downhill thing to get a grip. Sometimes we just want the simple joys of ‘Stopping by woods on a snowy evening’.