Useful ski season websites

Essential Ski Directory
Our listings and information cover all aspects of winter sports from new resorts to the hottest equipment, seasonal jobs, where to stay, instruction, properties for sale and everything else in-between.

The Instructor Training Academy
The Instructor Training Academy is an independent Ski Instructor Training and Snowboard Instructor Training company. We provide a unique opportunity to train for a skiing or snowboarding instructors accreditation in Japan, with English speaking coaches.

BoardnLodge
Boardnlodge have been offering top quality holidays in the Chamonix since 1999. Last winter they expanded from their background of top quality catered chalet holidays with self-catered apartment holidays and also offer seasonal lets.

Pistehors - Back Country Ski & Snowboard news
Swap the two words in the name around and it means off piste in French, and that is exactly what this site is all about. None commercial, informative and well written news and reviews from the back country and off piste skiing / riding world. Great site.

Meribel Unplugged
This is an excellent website with bags of info on Meribel and the ski season in general. It is written and edited by seasonaires with more than 20 years experience of the Three Valleys.

Snowboarders - have a look at Step-on
Top site for Snowboarders. Weather reports, image galleries, News from all over the place, their own team shots (some of the best snowboard photos you'll see. If you are into Snowboarding you'll be here for hours...

FreerideBeans.com
FreerideBeans provide Holidays in the French Mountain resorts of Les 2alpes and Alp d'huez. Their aim is to provide the best deal possible for your Summer or Winter Holiday. The company is made up of SnowBoarders and skiers and so understand what you need in your holiday, and are well equipped to help with choosing a resort. If you fancy a change, FreerideBeans resorts are close enough to swap you over for the day. They are also based in the resorts for your full peace of mind.

Season it
Great site, nice and easy to navigate and full of useful info. Season it proivides 1-6 month ski season accommodation in Whistler, BC. Great locations footsteps from the slopes in fully equipped seasonal homes. Based in the UK and Whistler by true Whistler locals with over 15 yrs of mountain knowledge.

Pro Ride Snowboard Camp
Pro-ride is a snowboard camp based in Whistler, Canada. (Voted North America's number 1 resort for the past eight years). Their website details the excellent range of disciplines on offer with their camp from piste riding to heli drops. They have been operating their camps for 7 years. For around seven hundred (Canadian) dollars you can spend 5 days discovering Whistler and improving your riding. Long term programmes are available at a cost of around €3,000 (Canadian).

Stance-Snow
Stance snow in Alpe d'huez (France) is a private ski & snowboard school entirely dedicated to international clientele, providing private tuition.

Snow forecast
Excellent website for keeping track of the weather in resorts. Detailed reports give you daily updates of snow cover, how many lifts are open and what the weather is like. You can even get a 'Dump Alert' emailed to you automatically!

Basecamp Group
Base Camp run Ski & Snowboard Instructor Courses in Europe and North America. Each course has its own unique approach to skiing and snowboarding so whether you simply want to improve your skiing, perfect your park and powder skills, or would like a fast track into the industry, you could soon be learning to be an instructor in one of the best resorts around the world.

Seasons in Whistler
Seasonal accommodation specialists for ski, snowboard and mountain bike enthusiasts. Self catered accommodations in great locations available for either winter or summer rentals.

The Alps.com
Your natural source of information about the alps 

Precision
Precision are a ski shop based in Val D'Isere. For the last five years, ever since it was introduced, Precision has been voted the ‘Which? Good Ski and Snowboard Guide’ EUROPEAN SKI SHOP OF THE YEAR’.

Tele-skiers
Lively site covering all aspects of telemarking (including telemark waterskiing!).

The Edinburgh school of food and wine
EFSW offers a wide variety of full time and part time cookery courses. It is an inspiring place to study for gap year students, aspiring career-minded chefs or those who just love to cook. Look at this site if you would like to train a bit before you go off to the Alps to work in a chalet - could save you hours on end and a load of stress!

24-7SNOW.COM 24-7Snow.com
This deliberately small operator has been set up to take people to Whistler. Without  any aims to grow huge and take over the snowboard holiday industry, the owners aim to make more time for making their accommodation and setup perfect for clients, and keep prices as low as possible. The website has a wealth of first hand information on Whistler and is well worth a visit.

Ski Jobs with Ski Jungle
The skiing and snowboarding site for skiing holidays, summer holidays, ski resorts, ski chalet holidays, ski jobs, ski property and access to thousands of skiing and snowboarding sites worldwide.

All Mountain Holidays
All Mountain Holidays have ski chalets, ski apartments, studios and hotels all available to book direct with the owner or operator. If you have a ski chalet or apartment to rent visit this site to advertise it.

ChaletMix
ChaletMix provide chalet accommodation at affordable cost for seasonaires and weekly holiday-makers alike and to do so in a truly international setting.

Skiline
Skiline are an independent travel agency. Skiline offers a wide range of alpine skiing chalet holidays in America, Canada and Europe - including France, Austria, Switzerland and Italy and can can arrange all aspects of your winter holiday.

Chalets Direct
Find your ideal ski holiday or summer break - ski chalets and ski accommodation for great winter sports breaks, and summer holidays in the mountains.

Alpine Retreat Chatel
Alpine Retreat offer high quality summer and winter chalet holidays in France that are very relaxed, friendly and informal yet professionally run.

UK ski resort of Glenshee
Glenshee or Gleann Shith, (Gaelic for Glen of the Fairies), flanks the highest public road in Scotland which runs through the Cairnwell pass, formerly one of the main historic drove routes from the Highlands to the Lowlands.

Chalet Chardons
Chalet Chardons skiing and snowboarding hotel is situated 100 metres from the pistes in the beautiful and historic village of Tignes Les Brevieres. Chalet Chardons hotel is a fun, informal place to stay for groups, budget minded travellers, students and backpackers who prefer to ski, snowboard, enjoy good company, home cooking, friendly staff and perhaps a few late night parties over pretentious chalets and overpriced package holidays.

100 Days
Based in the resort of Fernie, BC, Canada, our packages include everything you need to spend a winter in the snow, from long-stay accommodation to instructors courses.

Snowsafe
Ortovox mountain safety equipment and ski goggles and helmets from Briko.

Essential Travel
Travel insurance provided by Essential Travel including single trip, annual multi trip and ski insurance. Book online for huge savings and instant cover.

Ski Chalets and Accommodation Val d'Isere
Great Range of Ski Chalets, Apartments and Accommodation in Val d'Isere

Boardshop
Boardshop stock a wide range of equipment and clothing for surfing, snowboarding, kitesurfing and windsurfing. They are all into the sports themselves and have many years experience to answer all your questions with.

Inghams Ski Holidays
Inghams Travel offer ski, snowboarding and other wintersports holidays at excellent prices in Europe and North America.