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Wintersports

Video: the best iPhone apps for skiers

Track your average skiing speed, find the best lunch on the mountain and get the weather forecast - just some of the apps we tested

Try some Olympic winter sports

Bored of skiing? Why not have a go at some of the alternative winter sports that have starred in the Winter Olympics?

Family skiing holidays: a survival guide

These are the questions to ask before you book your ski holiday, right through to the checklist to go over before you hit the slopes

fresh tracks

Learning to snowboard in Vail, Colorado
A snowboard calendar for this season
A external view of the Chesa Falcun chalet, Klosters, Switzerland
Which are the best chalet firms?

Live ski Q&As  

Igloo village Slovenia, fondue

Live ski lunch: food from the slopes

Join us live on Friday 5 Feb at 12 noon for a live debate on the best restaurants and food from the mountains

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Ski clinic: get your ski gear right

Replay our debate to get expert advice on essential ski kit, from gloves to snowboards, whether you're a beginner or a pro

Q&A: ski fitness and injury

Our experts hosted a live debate on getting in shape and skiing with ailments. Find out what our readers asked here

Ski clinic: how to get to the Alps this winter

Need some help planning your journey by plane, train, car or ferry? Check out the advice from our travel experts

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The experts' guide to off-piste skiing

Rhythm, speed, an avalanche probe and side-opening trousers - these and more essentials for skiing powder

Will Hide skiing, Morzine

How to get perfect ski holiday snaps

A Morzine ski company is offering the services of a professional photographer to follow you on the piste

20 ski chalets for all budgets

Don’t panic if you haven’t booked yet. There are still good places left, many with food and wine included

The 10 most underrated ski resorts

Ski insiders's secrets: there's more to Swiss skiing than Verbier... heard of Arosa? Or Nassfeld in Austria?

2010 ski resort reports  

Ski Resort reports 2010: Aspen to Zell am See

Our community of Ski Times bloggers set the scene for the season with brand new profiles of their home resorts

fresh features

Ski guide school in Whistler

Sleeping in snow caves and carrying 20kg packs - this is no normal ski break, says newly-qualified instructor Toby Symington

Some Wild Girls and boys in Klosters

Wild Girls hit the Klosters slopes

It may be royalty’s resort of choice, but the swish Swiss ski town has opened its heart (and its fat wallets) to this mad annual charity bash

Where to ski, month-by-month, this season

It looks like being a bumper year for the white stuff. We tell you where to go, and when, to be sure of the snow

Back to Germany's best ski slopes

The out of fashion resort that had the 1936 Winter Olympics will host the 2011 Alpine World Ski Championships

off piste features

Mountain Living Residence Hotel Lagació, San Cassiano, Italy

Europe's greenest ski lodges

Eco-friendly travel expert Richard Hammond stayed at Hotel Lagació in the Dolomites and recommends five more low-impact locations

Video: inside the world's only sauna gondola

Rhoda Buchanan braves the Arctic Circle in a towel, dangling 30 metres above a Finnish ski resort

The ultimate apres-ski guide to St Anton

The Austrian ski resort is arguably the best place in the Alps for apres-ski and nightlife

Ice diving in the French Pyrenees

As skiers flash past above, Nicholas Roe discovers a world as beautiful as it is deadly on a lake dive beneath the ice

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Ski + board videos

Guides to Courchevel, Tignes, Val, Meribel plus much, much more

More fresh ski and board features

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The rock’n’roll Swedish ski resort

If you’re looking for late-season skiing, with plenty of snow and plenty to amuse the kids, you can’t beat Åre

A recently opened attraction: the Peak 2 Peak Gondola between Whistler and Blackcomb

Where to ski in Canada post-Olympics

When the Winter Olympics end it will be holidays for all in and around Whistler

Anna Shepard with her Mother Snowshoeing

Three wintersports without chairlifts

Tired of the downhill skiing rush? Try snow shoeing, ski touring or ice climbing

Tobogganing in Switzerland

He loved skiing, but it didn’t love him back. So in Davos Ed Grenby had a racy affair ... with a high-speed sledge

An Italian ski trip for a family of beginners

How a family of ski virgins found their snow legs in the Dolomites

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Skiing in the freeride heaven of Launchernalp

The hidden ski secrets of Valais

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    "Christmas morning in snowy Scotland. We stayed at Airhouses at Airhouse, Oxton Lauder, Scottish Borders. This was taken with a mobile phone in a steamy outdoor hot tub, a spectacular way to spend Christmas morning!" From Joanna Goodman

    Send your snow and ski smugshots

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    Yet another type of sport being played in the snow: "Here is a picture of Umeå Rugby club winter training, northern Swedish style. We train every weekend from January until the snow disapears around late April. The picture is of Jon going for a try." From Mark Dopson

    Your snow and ski photos from the mountains 2009

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