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Snow Travel: Make It Easier By Using Technology

Posted on May 15th, 2011

Technology can certainly help us to plan snow travel more effectively and more efficiently. It would make life simpler and unquestionably saves you plenty of time if you are using the proper methods. For planning your snow trip, I would recommend tripit.

A straightforward explanation of tripit is that it arranges all your trip details automatically and displays them with an iphone/android app. You only need to forward them any holiday plans from your airline reservation and it organizes everything together with trip dates and flight numbers / flight times. They even can have a look at your Gmail inbox for itineraries and combine them easily if you want!

Additionally they allow it to be very easy to share your trip specifics with friends and family. For instance, if my family want to know my flight particulars, I could just add them to my excursion sharing list and they can click on a website link to check out all the details on my trip. Additionally, it costs nada! You should only have to pay extra if you’d like certain benefits like live airport gate corrections and automatic trip sharing with friends, but for every one of the standard options you don’t pay a dollar!  Read more...

Snow Travel: Planning A Long Trip

Posted on May 5th, 2011

A season visiting a ski slope is an excellent opportunity if you love snow! It’s a rite of passage for snow enthusiasts. So how can you start preparing to do a season?

To start off with, you should decide on which ski resort to visit. You should decide on which kind of terrain you love riding and what exactly your ability is. You should avoid visiting a ski resort with a significant amount of skilled terrain if you’re just starting out. Remember that the sort of snow that you prefer should count in the evaluation process. If you love deep powder, it’s important to travel to a resort that has a high annual snowfall and maybe a high altitude. The high altitude helps to keep the snow dry and powdery.

For getting a season pass, there are actually many approaches to go about this. Keep in mind that if you intend to work for the resort, it is possible to receive a free season pass. When you are not looking to work, the smartest way to get yourself a season pass is to buy as far in advance as possible.. Ski resorts usually begin to sell their season pass 6 or maybe more months before each season. You can get your pass later but it means that you will be losing any reductions that are available to early shoppers. You would be smart not to miss out on these reductions since they ordinarily mean savings of a couple of hundred dollars.  Read more...

Five of the Best Up-and-Coming Snowboarding Destinations

Posted on Dec 15th, 2009

Since its humble beginnings in the 1970s to its official inclusion in the Winter Olympics, snowboarding sure has hit it big. Once considered the land equivalent of surfing, its participants a bunch of blissed-out stoner slackers, snowboarding has enjoyed a truly explosive mainstream popularity and now boarders outnumber skiers on many mountains around the world.

Whether you’re new to the sport or a seasoned professional, it’s often difficult to plan the perfect snowboarding vacation. Whether it’s higher costs at old favorites or a desire to try new things, looking around when there are so many options can be tough. Since snowboarders are often a brave and daring group, there has been more of a movement to find far-flung resorts with ideal conditions, but actually making arrangements can be a little bit intimidating.

That’s why we’re here to help all of those aspiring globe-trotting snowboarders. While it might be great to hit the resort in your backyard all winter, it’s even more rewarding to find the common bond of snowboarding can make you friends all over the world, while seeing incredible new countries and riding some great mountains. Whether it’s the southern hemisphere or the northern hemisphere, a world-class resort or a smaller, more local hill, there’s so much more to boarding than your own back yard. Here are some of the world’s greatest destinations for snowboarding that you may have never heard of.  Read more...