WELCOME OUR SPONSORS SKI INDEPENDENCE 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 après-ski locations, to breathtaking scenery at Lake Louise, or how to get the best out of a multi-centre itinerary – they highly recommended road-tripping up the spectacular Icefields Parkway between Lake Louise and Jasper for an experience like no other. Visit ski-i.com/alberta to find out more about booking Canada’s Alberta with tailor-made specialists Ski Independence. ****************** NEWS Dolomites Dirndl ski day Nick Fellows appointed director of FIS TV Southern Hemisphere news Andorra is not bound by the EU 90 day within 180 rule ----------------------- GEAR GUIDE Size is key. Getting the fit right is really important, not just for comfort, but safety too. Two main types, with a third hybrid that combines the two. 1 - a hard shell helmet 2 - an in-mould Broadly speaking the hard shells are lower cost and hard wearing, whilst the in-mould types provide lighter, but still as strong, protection and can handle better ventilation systems that are more active – in other words you can control the ventilation. There’s then hybrid helmets that combine both the hard shell and the in-mould manufacturing techniques, which can then provide both value and more functionality. Style MIPS that stands for Multi-directional impact protection system (thats the round yellow badge) Sweet Protection Igniter 2Vi MIPs helmet that comes in at £219 Oakley Mod5 MIPS £221 Hardnutz currently at around £50 Mountainwarehouse.com --------------------------------------------------------- RESORT SPOTLIGHT - Kitzbuhel 233 kilometres of skiing, with 181 of them being marked and groomed, the rest are left ungroomed and are marked as Ski Routes. There’s 58 ski lifts and it’s one of the world’s most modern lift systems.  You’ve got 60 mountain restaurants across three separate mountain ranges. All linked up to the Skiwelt which means even more ski lifts – 82 in total and marked trails in several resorts including Brixe, Ellmau, Going, Hopfgarten, Itter, Kelchsau, Scheffau, Söll and Westendorf. Skiwelt is the longest ski circuit in the world, it’s 88 km’s long and takes in 14 villages. Lots of nice intermediate crusiy red runs too -  Hannenkahm race held on th 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 instagram.com/inthesnow TikTok@inthesnowmag youtube.com/inthesnowmag facebook.com/inthesnow and contact us with your suggestions for further episodes at [email protected]