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Big White Wins Best Access out of all North American Resorts! Silver Star comes in 2nd. Silver Star was also second for Best for Families.

Few ski resorts can rival Big White for its ski convenience – virtually all the hotels and apartments in this modern, purpose-built resort are ski-in, ski-out, with the main lifts starting below village level and even the Main Street being dubbed a ski run by the resort.  The terrain suits intermediates best, and the fact that it gets a lot of snow and has a lot of trees for shelter means that it is a good place to learn to ski powder. There’s also a great area called Happy Valley with other activities such as ice skating, snowmobiling, tubing and snowshoeing, served by a gondola that works till late.

Sunshine Village SnowHosts are on hand every day to help you discover three incredible mountains. Every day from early December until mid-April, SnowHosts give a free tour of the mountains. These relaxed and informative tours help intermediate skiers or riders here for the first time to find their way around the network of 12 lifts. They also provide a fun way to explore a wide variety of ski areas with a group of skiers and riders.

Tours begin at noon. Meet at the big trail map sign in the Village. There is no need to book in advance. No instruction is provided.

Visit our Banff section of the website for holiday ideas or contact us for ski holiday package.

Both Big White and Silver Star has had their first significant snowfall of the 2010/11 season!!  If the weather gurus are correct, they are in for a record breaking winter at Big White and Silver Star. More white stuff is forecast for the coming week.

HT Holidays goes wireless from this winter - HT Holidays is completing the installation of wireless routers in all but 4 of there properties. The service which will be fully operational by the end of November, means that HT Holidays will be the first ski property management company to offer FREE Wireless internet in all Niseko properties. They will also have wireless connectivety available in all public spaces and internet access points in various buildings this winter. Talk to the team at Ski Traveller about your Japan ski holiday today.

Well, believe it or not, the snow has begun to fall at Aspen/Snowmass! On August 30th they received there first noticeable snow accumulation high in the mountains. The mood there is great as everyone excitedly looks toward the winter months to come!

Although the ski season is still months away, we would like to remind you of one of the newest programs at Aspen/Snowmass. As you may already know, Aspen Highlands has been considered by many to be there most extreme mountain. Labeled by many as a “local’s mountain,” we find it very important that the large number of expert skiers and boarders that visit the mountains every year can also experience the challenging terrain that Aspen locals have come to know and love.

Therefore, for the first year ever, Aspen/Snowmass is offering free Ambassador Tours every Wednesday in the Aspen Highland’s Bowl! We truly think that these free ski tours of the Bowl will be great  for the many up-and-coming expert skiers and boarders visiting Aspen/Snowmass this season. I know for many the bowl can be a bit daunting at first glance. Hopefully this program will encourage many to make the challenging 30 minute hike in order to experience some of the best views and skiing Aspen has to offer.

The snow is falling, the mood is great and we look forward to booking you on a ski holiday to Aspen/Snowmass!

Book an HT ski property in Niseko with Ski Traveller and receive this amazing bonus offer - FREE on Mountain Valet Service for ski and boot storage. Skiers come off the mountain and leave their ski wear overnight with the HT Ski Valet and collect equipment the next morning.  HT are the only company that offers this exclusive on mountain service, for the entire 2010/11 winter season. For more information about ski deals in Niseko, contact our specialists.

Let the celebration begin in the Vail Valley, as Vail and Beaver Creek Resorts were selected by the International Ski Federation (FIS) Council to host the 2015 World Alpine Ski Championships.

Vail and Beaver Creek Resorts have been supporting and hosting international ski racing events and World Cups since the circuit began in 1967. Today, the Birds of Prey World Cup at Beaver Creek stands as one of the most highly respected and most difficult stops on the men’s World Cup tour.

With the 2015 announcement, Beaver Creek plans to upgrade the Birds of Prey venue, increasing the finish area for the men’s events, building a new Red Tail Camp Restaurant and building a new women’s speed course which will rival the men’s course. This run also will serve the combined events and the nation’s team event during the 2015 Championships. The women’s technical events, including the giant slalom and slalom will be held at Vail which will have a new, dramatic stadium located in the heart of Vail Village. Opening and closing ceremonies also will take place in Vail.

Plans for the 2015 World Championships will begin immediately as World Cup racing action returns to the Vail Valley, 03-05 December, 2010 for the Men’s Birds of Prey World Cup.
Follow the action at www.beavercreek.com, www.vail.com and www.bcworldcup.com.

  After skiing NZ for 25 consecutive winters I decided it was time to fufill a life time passion to have a northern hemisphere ski holiday.We are a family of five with two 15 yr olds and one 17 yr old.We belong to a Ruapahue ski club and I had seen some info kicking around the club about ski holidays but everytime I multiplied the cost by five I just about fell over.Last winter I saw a ski holiday featured in the herald travel section.This was run by Lianne Stott at Ski Traveller in Auckland.I began to email Lianne and with the benefit of her advise and experience we decided that our destination would be Copper Mountian in Colorado.  Copper mountian is an area called Summit County that includes the towns of Silverthorne, Dillon, Breckinridge and Frisco.The adjoining ski fields are Breckinridge, Keystone, Araprahoe Basin and Copper Mountian.These are all within a 15-40 minute drive from Frisco.From Frisco is a free bus service that runs between all these towns and ski fields that runs for about 19 hours a day.Brilliant.We never felt the need for a hire car at all and still managed to see a lot of the local area.Vail, reputed to be Americas largest ski field is only 20 minutes down the road from copper mountian but is not included in the Summit County area but easily accessible.  We booked 12 nights at Copper in a two bedroom, two bathroom, pull out sofa bed, fully equiped kitchen condo that was about 2-3 minutes walk to the chair lift.Copper village was very quaint, spotlessly clean, zero litter,comes with all the restaurants, shops, hot tubs, lap pool, skating rink, medical center and hire shops.For a family ski holiday this was fantastic.The ski field was supurb with great variety of beutifully groomed to challenging moguled steeps.The facilities on field were excellent.Copper had a deal Mt Ruapehue where we were able to ski on our 2009 seasons pass.This made to holiday way more affordable than I thought possible.  Liannes booking and airport advise was right on the button.Also her advise on comprehensive travel insurace was invaluble.Dont skimp on insurance.We had a great time, really loved it, and I cant wait to plan the next one.  Go Ski TravellerMark.

Vail Resorts 2009-2010 Epic Season Pass
* US$ 599 per Adult
* US$ 299 per Child
Book with Ski Traveller before 15 November 2009.
Unlimited skiing at Vail - Beaver Creek - Breckenridge - Keystone - Arapahoe Basin in Colorado and also at Heavenly in California.

We have a fantastic short life ski airfare to Colorado….you must purchase this airfare before the 30th of June 2009.
Ring Ski Traveller for more details, ski or snowboard in Colorado for under $5000 each for 2 weeks.

More information about this package:
http://skitraveller.co.nz/hot_deals

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