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Silver Star Canada – here’s why 

Champagne Powder - frequent falls of 8-15cm of beautiful fluffy snow, it was heavenly!Trees – beautiful tree line runs, thinned out glades for when you’re feeling more adventurous and Christmas card like scenery. Oh and not to forget the numerous kiddy trails with bumps and dips through the trees. My daughter was in heaven.Village – SO quaint!  Super colourful Victorian style houses and amenities.  Ski in-Ski out of the village meant you had a choice of all sorts of really good food to eat for lunch and there weren’t hyped up ski resort prices.Family activities:  Tubing, iceskating, horse and sled rides, fireworks, night time activities for the kids.Ski school:  Frequently paid for group lessons for my daughter and she’d get a private lesson AND they allow early drop off so I could get those early powder runs.No lift lines:  Even during spring break the longest I had to wait for a lift was five minutes and most of the time I just skied right on.  Regards

Tiri C

Hi Guys, By far the best ski holiday we have had!!  This was our honeymoon but shared it with several of our ski buddies.  We flew to SFO then drove to Tahoe where we skiied Squaw Valley, North Star, Sugar Bowl, Kirkwood and June Mountain. Then we drove down to Mammoth which was the best of all being “ski in ski out”. Absolutely fantastic!!  Will do it again when finances allow.

Cheers

 Jenny S

My favourite place was Mt Washington on Vancouver Island.  We were there beginning of April 2008 and the snow was fantastic.  There was 50cm fresh powder the second day, we could step right out of the  door of the condo and onto our skis.  It is lovely place with lots of trees, plenty of places where they have made easy tree runs, there is a fantastic 360degree view from the top and you can see all the way to the US.  All very low key, no queues, and perfect place for families and night skiing. Mt Washington regularly has one of the biggest snowfalls in Nth America/Canada.  They were supposed to be having their yearly “slush cup” the next week and we were skiing in knee deep fresh snow and not a single rock of piece of ice to be seen.  Rather cold at -13 but with all the accommodation right at the bottom of the lifts you can easily go inside for lunch to warm up.  Loved it!

Jennifer R

Hi,

My best ski holiday has to be our most recent overseas skiing trip.  My husband and I had a belated honeymoon trip to Switzerland in January 09.   We flew into Geneva and caught the train to Grindelwald, near Interlaken.  The ski area has 4 different resorts - Grindelwald, Mannlichen, Wengen and Murren - which were all accessed via the amazingly efficient swiss trains and ski lifts and one super ski pass.   The first night we arrived, 0.5m of fresh snow fell and in true Europe style stayed really nice all week - it probably helped that it never got any warmer than -10degs all week !!!   The beauty of this area is skiing under the north face of the Eiger.  Best moments of the trip include; apres ski down run 22 from First, catching the train from Kleine Scheidegg up to the top of the Yungfrau and standing at the top of Europe, skiing the world cup downhill course at Wengen and enjoying the varied terrain at Mannlichen.  

Regards,

Louise D

hi.
my best skiing holiday was at M.T Ruapehu, Whakapapa.
last year the snow was at its peak ammount and the conditions were magnificent.
the terrain park was also a great highlight.
when your speeding down the wide open slopes with the wind rushing past you and not thinking about anything except not crashing its the best feeling in the world and last holidays i experienced that.
One day i hope to travel to the south island of new zealand and hit the awesome mountain range down there.
Maybe even do some heli-skiing that would be awesome!
thanks

jeremy b

My best ski holiday was in Banff Canada – my husband, Peter and I ventured over there from Scotland on a ski trip on our OWN for the first time back in 2002.  Usually we went in a big group of about 12 to France!  It was an amazing experience.  What a beautiful country and the people were absolutely wonderful!  We met some very interesting people.  Very memorable. 
Ayesha M

Broken River of course. Last year a week with the kids. It was youth week so pretty soon the boys were jumping of stuff. The kids looked after themselves and the was heaps of fresh tracks to be had. Broken River is alway good mid week when 20 skier on the field is busy and the lifts (rope tows) only shut down when everyone had enough for the day. The night skiing was mint as well.

Andy C

Ruapehu 08 season was incredible. My favorite holiday was just a regular weekend. But what made it special was the incredible snow quality.  We had dry untracked powder on the glacier all morning at Turoa.  Then in the afternoon we hiked to the summit and put fresh turns in skiing down. It made me appreciate New Zealand - Once in awhile it really is special and memorable and I feel grateful to have this mountain only 4 hours away.

Tanya R

February in Okemo, Vermont. East coast skiing was new to me…it was cold and dry and extremely smooth. Plenty of time alone to feel the magic. Exhilarating! Take me back!

 Chirstine T

My best ski holiday was last year, i am from canada living in Auckland and went down to Queenstown with the whole family to Cardrona i have to say it was a great experience and so much different then the mountains in Canada. I definitely hope to go again

Ryan- Auckland, NZ