The Ski Club of Great Britain are looking for people to join a focus group at The Snow Centre.

Ski Club Focus Group @ Snow Centre 31st March: anyone who is interested will have to fill a brief online form in on the Ski Club website, there are three sessions on the 31st March at 11am — 1.30pm or 2pm — 4.30pm or 6pm — 8pm. The Ski Club wants feedback about their website, any views and ideas are welcome.

France is a country of great diversity. Traditionally more appealing for buyers wanting rural properties to renovate, there is a growing trend towards new builds, often available under leaseback deals guaranteeing rental income. Prices have been rising rapidly, with an average increase of 16% in 2004 (10% for new properties).

If you are a real piste explorer and find that in avarage resorts you have covered the area in a few days and spend the rest of the week slightly bored running the same old slopes, Portes Du Soleil is one of the largest ski areas in the world and spans from Mont Blanc in France to The Geneva lake in Switzerland, made of 12 resort the area has over 400 miles of ski sloped, 208ski-lifts all accessible using a single inclusive card. Snow dumps over the Portes du Soleil are common and snowmaking ensure that slopes are kept healthy during warmer periods.

Planning your winter holidays, Morocco might not be the typical place that comes to mind.  But for ski touring or ski mountaineering the Atlas Mountains is the biggest mountain range in North Africa and offer some of the highest peaks in Africa. Toubkal (4167m) is the magnet for North African skiing and is North Africa’s highest peak.

Vail have announced their Epic Pass is back for next winter and can be bought now. The Epic Pass gives unlimited and unrestricted skiing at the company’s five resorts of Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge and Keystone in Colorado and Heavenly in California as well as another Colorado ski centre the company doesn’t own, Arapahoe Basin.

We may be entering the last month of operations for many leading snow resorts, but the snow is still falling thickly at many ski centres in Europe and North America. Current Paralympics host Whistler is continuing its record breaking 2009–10 season with another metre of snow in the past week. It still has at least three months of the season to run, thanks to its high altitude glacier skiing.

Sun Peaks in British Columbia has opened its new terrain park and announced not only news snow features but also a range of events through the season. The park contains over nine acres of terrain features and jumps for skiers and snowboarders including a new a 20 foot flat box for rail riders, two new 16 foot corrugated culverts and a 30 foot straight rail.

Val Thorens is offering a new activity this winter for those in search of a new adrenaline rush – high altitude downhill mountain biking on snow, at night. Participants start their descent at one of the highest lift-served points in the French Alps, 3,000m up at the foot of the Péclet Glacier. They then hurtle down the six kilometre (nearly four mile) long “Tête Ronde” run on their mountain bike, descending 700 vertical metres back to the resort.