Browsing entries tagged with Gill

11 Feb 2016

Time to send your ski resort reports

Time to send your ski resort reports

With great snow conditions currently on offer in the Alps and US in time for half-term (read today’s snow report here), our thoughts start to turn to Where to Ski and Snowboard 2017 (yes, scary). Editor…

11 Sep 2015

Our 21st anniversary edition is out!

Our 21st anniversary edition is out!

The wait is over! Where to Ski and Snowboard 2016 is out now. Our 21st birthday edition was launched on Monday, and on sale now here for £16.99. The “skiers bible” was launched in 1994 by Chris Gill…

4 Sep 2015

New chapters added to WTSS 2016

New chapters added to WTSS 2016

Where to Ski and Snowboard 2016 is launched on Monday, 7 September. The skier’s bible, which continues to set the resort guide standard, celebrates its 21st birthday this year. The book was launched…

29 Jun 2015

Alta defends snowboard ban again

Alta defends snowboard ban again

A ski resort in the USA has returned to court to defend its policy of banning snowboarders from its slopes. Alta Ski Area in Utah appeared at a federal appeals court in Salt Lake City last Friday, 26 June,…

10 Feb 2015

Drought forces US ski resorts to close

Drought forces US ski resorts to close

Lack of snow is not just affecting skiing in Europe — the west coast of North America is experiencing the worst drought in years. This week ski resorts across California and even on in Alaska have closed…

2 Nov 2014

Chat skiing with Editor Gill

Chat skiing with Editor Gill

It’s been dumping in the Rockies and rumour has it that another two metres of snow is forecast this week for the Alps — but have you decided where to go yet this winter? We hope you’ve been…

9 Sep 2014

20th anniversary edition launched

20th anniversary edition launched

Where to Ski and Snowboard was officially launched last night — 20 years since the first edition was published. Tour operators, ski journalists, long-standing readers and contributors, advertisers and…

27 Aug 2014

Buy our birthday edition at 1994 price

Buy our birthday edition at 1994 price

It’s that time of year again — winter is coming and so is the new edition of Where to Ski and Snowboard. Now is your chance to order a copy for the 1994 price of £14.99 and free postage within the…

13 Jan 2014

New reader report system: file and win!

New reader report system: file and win!

Where to Ski and Snowboard has launched a new reporting system for the 2013-14 season — with more user friendly features than ever before, including a new mobile facility allowing you to report on the…

17 Oct 2013

Piste measuring standard draws closer

Piste measuring standard draws closer

The International Federation of Lift Operator Associations (Fédération Internationale des Associations Nationales d’Exploitants de Téléphériques or FIANET) has issued a recommendation that all ski…

3 Oct 2013

WTSS to host live Twitter Q&A session

WTSS to host live Twitter Q&A session

Are you going round in circles trying to decide where to go on your ski holiday? Have you got any questions on a ski resort that you’ve been looking at but can’t quite decide on? Well, Where to Ski…

26 Sep 2013

Austria issues piste guidelines

Austria issues piste guidelines

The Austrian national lift company association has issued guidelines on how pistes should be measured. Earlier this month, Where to Ski and Snowboard 2014 was published with a new chapter “Piste extent…

24 Sep 2013

Reader sets record with 1995 booking

Reader sets record with 1995 booking

Readers of Where to Ski and Snowboard are very loyal, and many have followed the book since we first started to publish it in 1994 — but recently we came across something of a record. Specialist Canadian…

12 Sep 2013

Piste length matters argues Editor Gill

Piste length matters argues Editor Gill

Piste length does matter, according to our readers. Some 83% of you have told us that size really matters, and to choose a ski resort for your winter holiday you need to know the facts. We’re still waiting…

10 Sep 2013

WTSS 2014 lifts lid on piste exaggeration

WTSS 2014 lifts lid on piste exaggeration

Where to Ski and Snowboard 2014 has lifted the lid on a big ski resort secret: the gross exaggeration of piste lengths. In the new edition of Where to Ski and Snowboard, released last Monday, editors Chris…

18 Aug 2013

Order Where to Ski and Snowboard 2014

Order Where to Ski and Snowboard 2014

The 18th edition of Where to Ski and Snowboard, fully revised and updated for the 2013/14 winter season, will be available soon. The “skiers bible”, edited by Chris Gill and Dave Watts will be…

31 Jan 2013

Skiing with a helmet: Brits are split

Skiing with a helmet: Brits are split

British skiers are lagging behind their European and North American counterparts on wearing a helmet while on the snow. Of 13,597 people who went skiing and snowboarding last season, 51% wore a helmet,…

11 Jan 2013

Temperatures and snow fall in the Alps

Temperatures and snow fall in the Alps

Temperatures are dropping and it’s snowing again in the Alps. Just when everyone is heading back to work after the New Year break, the snow is coming — and it’s much needed after this week’s warm…

14 Sep 2012

Courmayeur comes clean on piste length

The Italian resort of Courmayeur has caved in to pressure and admitted to having less than a third of the amount of piste skiing it previously claimed to have. As the latest edition of Where to Ski and…

29 Mar 2009

Powder aplenty in the Portes du Soleil

There is just no end to this phenomenal winter in the Alps. A quick editorial trip to the Portes du Soleil last week coincided with yet another substantial snowfall.We were staying in Avoriaz 1800, which…

7 Jan 2009

Cutting-edge designer hotel opens. In where?

Austria is the home of the neat-but-plain guest-house, with traditional decor that’s all too often a bit drab. But at the same time it is up with the leaders in opening razor-sharp designer restaurants,…

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