Articles in the How-to Category

Are you considering your first ski or snowboarding holiday?

Perhaps, like 300,000 other Brits, you’ll be hitting the mountains in France for your ski holiday – the most popular destination for British skiers year after year.…

After some great feedback from our last Q&A session with BASI, we’ve got the answers to some more of your FAQs. There’s plenty for snowboarders this time – with board questions answered by Ben Kinnear, Snowboard Director and…

Notebooks at the ready people? Here, as promised are our chosen top tips to improve your ski and board technique from our good friends at BASI.

BASI’s Chairman Gareth Roberts and Alpine Director Alex Leaf are both BASI trainers. Read…

Not all snow that you’ll find off piste is the same. This is a definitive guide to the different types of snow that you can encounter, how the conditions off piste can change and how you might deal with them…

The Grand Massif ski area that comes close to rivalling the Espace Killy in terms of size, and the high-altitude, modern resort of Flaine is super convenient and child-friendly, making it a hit with families from both sides of  ‘La…

Skiing off piste has become more accessible to a larger number of skiers during the last 10 years. This is due mainly to changes in equipment, especially skis and an increase in competency levels of skiers.

Here I explore…