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[tunnie]

I agree with Kevin, Canadian Rockies are great, most North American resorts are excellent.
Big wide trails, good value accomodations, lift ticket deals and very friendly resort personnel. Most resorts have guided tours of their terrain for all levels - most are free.
I can recomend Silver Star and Big White in Canada plus Breckenridge and Winter Park in the US.
If I can help let me know.

Sounds good, it seams snowboarding gear over in the states in the same amount in $ as it is here in £.

So when i go, tempted to buy loads of gear too. First thing on my list for here though is a jacket, and some decent gloves.

In the "Session" rental prices at MK, board and boots are included. But jacket and gloves are not, so time to get those first i think.

Already got some trousers, in a sale. Was £109.99 reduced to £20  

Plain blue "No Fear" ones, with vents, very impressed, kept me the right temp the whole time on the slop, and no water got in.

[Kevin Wood]

You don't really need to go mad on equipment. A decent jacket is a good idea, and some  trousers / salapettes. Under that you just need a few layers - tracksuit bottoms and a tea shirt with maybe a sweater above that will cover you for the worst of the cold. Often I've ended up skiing in just a tea shirt under my jacket. You're moving around so you don't get cold unless you end up on a chair lift on the shady side of the mountain.

You see the "fashion victims" with all the gear but I don't give a damn what I look like. I normally try to go quick enough that no-one notices. [smiley=evil.gif]

Gloves, goggles and a hat and neck scarf are a must.

For skiing, getting a pair of boots can be more comfortable than using hired ones, once they've shaped to your feet, but not sure for a board. Probably worth figuring out if it's something you're going to do regularly first.

Kevin

[tunnie]

You don't really need to go mad on equipment. A decent jacket is a good idea, and some  trousers / salapettes. Under that you just need a few layers - tracksuit bottoms and a tea shirt with maybe a sweater above that will cover you for the worst of the cold. Often I've ended up skiing in just a tea shirt under my jacket. You're moving around so you don't get cold unless you end up on a chair lift on the shady side of the mountain.

You see the "fashion victims" with all the gear but I don't give a damn what I look like. I normally try to go quick enough that no-one notices. [smiley=evil.gif]

Gloves, goggles and a hat and neck scarf are a must.

For skiing, getting a pair of boots can be more comfortable than using hired ones, once they've shaped to your feet, but not sure for a board. Probably worth figuring out if it's something you're going to do regularly first.

Kevin

I'll give you a shout next time i head out there.

I will keep to hired board and boots for now, just get a jacket, gloves  

[Varche]

I would add a small back pack to the list of stuff. Apart from discarded clothes from when you are too hot that is where you carry your daily chocolate supply!!

One of my few regrets in life is that I never took to the slopes in my teens. Skiing/Snowboarding is just great. We have Sierra Nevada slopes an hour and a half from our place but our fitness levels are now rubbish. I bet Canada is just great.

We used to go to Tamworth Snowdome before a skiing holiday to get the body ready............  Great place, far better than the dry slopes like the one at Sheffield. If you go on a holiday make sure you get tuition - one or two sessions every day. On one of ours the tutor had us all skiing backwards down an entire run. To this day I have never seen anyone else intentionally skiing backwards (other than a tutor watching his class), balance i guess.

varche

  

[tunnie]

I would add a small back pack to the list of stuff. Apart from discarded clothes from when you are too hot that is where you carry your daily chocolate supply!!

One of my few regrets in life is that I never took to the slopes in my teens. Skiing/Snowboarding is just great. We have Sierra Nevada slopes an hour and a half from our place but our fitness levels are now rubbish. I bet Canada is just great.

We used to go to Tamworth Snowdome before a skiing holiday to get the body ready............  Great place, far better than the dry slopes like the one at Sheffield. If you go on a holiday make sure you get tuition - one or two sessions every day. On one of ours the tutor had us all skiing backwards down an entire run. To this day I have never seen anyone else intentionally skiing backwards (other than a tutor watching his class), balance i guess.

varche

  

Thanks, good advice.

Is Sierra Nevada seasonal? take it you can't go boarding in the summer there?

[Varche]

Very seasonal with being so far south in Europe. Really between Jan and March to be on the safe side. There is snow on the northern most slopes of the mountains through to early summer but that is higher than the slopes of the resort.

I've never seen any packages but presume they fly into Granada airport which is about 6 miles West of the city centre. The slopes are half an hours drive up a wonderful scenic road from the city centre. Building of the world's longest gondola cable car link is due to start shortly. It will be something like 19 or 23 km long and link the resort hotels with the city and further hotel capacity. It has got so popular that you have to be there early in a morning if arriving by car!

varche