Time to mention today’s sponsors, Ski Independence & Canada’s Alberta. The team at Ski Independence have been sending customers to Alberta’s ski resorts for almost 30 years. With oodles of personal experience, they know all about the best places to stay, the best travel options… and everything in between: from Banff’s best eateries, breathtaking scenery at Lake Louise and wildlife spotting opportunities, to how to get the best out of a multi-centre itinerary – they highly recommended road-tripping up the spectacular Icefields Parkway for an experience like no other.  Book with tailor-made specialists Ski Independence before the end of October, and under 12s will ski & rent for free in Banff & Lake Louise, and lift tickets in Jasper’s Marmot Basin are half price until the end of November. Visit ski-i.com/alberta to find out more. ***** NEWS: New lift and ski area in La Plagne - Check out Laplagneresort.com for more info Dartbus - Dartbus.co.uk Ski Club survey - Skiclub.co.uk H&M MOVE SNOW COLLECTION SkiWeekends launch CO2 travel comparison tool -  skiweekends.com/news/travel-greener-to-the-alps SNOW REPORT: Our friend in Chamonix, David Robertson, this week and he says: “this is the best snow we have seen at this time of the season in the past 18 years I have been in Chamonix. There’s already a number of tracks up there – the mid station lifts are still open for hikers but it’s skiers that are taking advantage of it.” No high pressure then blocking all that snow, yippee. Tignes has announced that it will open a week earlier than planned, on the 18th November, the weekend after next, rather than the 25th. Hannah Bolger of France-specialist ski holiday company Peak Retreats, contacted us about this and she said: “They’re opening up the Glacier with an option of a returning slope to Val Claret, via the Double M piste! With the continued ‘progressing-opening’ of the rest of the ski area from 25th November. It’s very exciting news for the start of the season!” Kitzbuhel and Schladming in Austria OPEN this weekend, Madonna di Campiglio in Italy from the 18th and Arosa, Davos and Verbier in Switzerland from this weekend, joining more than a dozen glacier ski areas that have already opened. Val Thorens opening weekend is scheduled for November 25 and 26 Switzerland is looking pretty good too and Austria The Dolomites and the likes of Bormio in Italy also have snow Cervinia is all set for the weekend’s downhill race and it is looking spectacular on the course right now Arapaho basin and Keystone are already reporting around 45cm’s of snow on their upper slopes and there’s up to 10 cm’s forecast for the next week GEAR Helly Hansen – Ski Free - buy a jacket and get a free ski pass, or buiy one get one free for more details visit - hellyhansen.com/skifree Planks on Rainkiss Fauna Skisfaunaskis.com Axiski Resort Spotlight – Park City BUCKET LIST JAPAN LHR > Haneda TOKYO - Senso ji  - Harmonica Yokocho - Tokyo Skytree a 2080 ft tower with 360 degree views of the city - Shibuya crossing the busiest intersection crossing in the world - Shinjuku national garden, absolute gl In the meantime Happy Skiing :). Please do leave a review it's the only way other like minded skiers get to find us! And don't forget to check us out on the following channels inthesnow.com youtube.com/inthesnowmag facebook.com/inthesnow instagram.com/inthesnow and contact us with your suggestions for further episodes at [email protected]