Ice diving takes place day and night and, at a maximum depth of three metres, no previous diving experience is necessary.įurther Information: Neilson (0870-060 0114 ) offers seven nights' half-board at the three-star Hotel Le Gentiana, Tignes Le Lac, for £689 per person, based on two sharing, including return flights from London Gatwick and transfers. Attached by rope to a qualified instructor and tethered to the surface of the ice, over the course of five short dives you can explore the ice formations below the surface where the waters are crystal clear. Ski down to Tignes Le Lac, in France's Espace Killy ski area, strip off and, following 20 minutes of instruction, jump through an ice hole and discover the world below. Basecamp can arrange equipment hire from £60. EasyJet (0905-821 0905) offers return flights from London Heathrow to Geneva from £184. Flights, transfers and equipment hire cost extra.
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And to top it all, you even come away with a free hoody.įurther Information: Basecamp Group (020-7243 6222 ) offers a seven-night freestyle camp in Val d'Isère from 31 March to 7 April from £445 per person, based on four sharing, including half-board, lift pass and tuition. Based in Val d'Isère, where two snow parks provide a half pipe, big air jumps, rails, table tops and a border cross track (where you race over jumps and around bends), you're unlikely to get bored. Once you have perfected your take-offs and landings in the park, the camp heads out to backcountry to practise in not-so-perfect settings. The freestyle camps feature park and pipe manoeuvres, and by the end of the week you can hope to be grabbing, flipping and rotating your skis without hurting yourself - safety is a major feature and there is an emphasis on staying injury-free all week. The freestyle camps give 35 hours of tuition from skiing and snowboarding professionals, who will pass on their tips, tricks and techniques to turn you from piste-basher to jibber extraordinaire. Basecamp group offers a range of courses from freestyle camps to improvers' camps and powder camps. If you are so over snaking down the piste behind an instructor with 14 others in tow and you fancy breaking free of the ski-school mould, try a performance ski camp.
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Such is the legend of the 40m-wide chute that a DVD, Someday Somebody Will Ski That, has been made by Peter Pilafian (of renowned skate movie Dogtown and Z-Boys fame), featuring the legendary skier Doug Coombs.įurther Information: Inghams (020-8780 4433 .uk) offers seven nights at the four-star Inn at Jackson Hole in Teton Village from £539 per person, based on four sharing, including return flights, transfers and room-only accommodation. It was named after Jackson Hole ski patroller, Barry Corbet. The couloir, the entry point to an off-piste run, was recently voted number four in a list of things to do before you die by the US-based Skiing Magazine. So now is your chance to brave the vertical drop into the hole and make that crucial turn. The superb conditions mean that the infamous Corbet's Couloir is open for business. Like many North American resorts, Jackson Hole is enjoying a bumper season with nearly half a metre of powder having already fallen in the Wyoming resort. If you'd prefer to watch others push themselves through the pain barrier, simply hole yourself up in a plush resort in Aspen and catch them at the finishing line.įurther information: Crystal Ski (0870-160 6040 .uk) offers seven nights' b&b at the Hotel Aspen Meadows Resort from £790 per person, based on four sharing, including return flights and transfers, departing 28 March. At the stroke of midnight on 30 March around 250 racers head into the darkness in an attempt to complete the 40-mile route in the shortest time possible (the record is under 8 hours 30 minutes). The Elk Mountains Grand Traverse is an overnight back-country ski race which follows the postal routes that once connected the Colorado towns of Crested Butte and Aspen. If you can't quite get your speed up to start downhill racing, there is another, more serene way to go head-to-head in the snow. Further Information: Frontier Ski (020-8776 8709 .uk) offers a seven-night luxury heli-ski package in Revelstoke with Mica heli-ski, from £4,625 per person, based on two sharing, including Air Canada return flights from London Heathrow to Kelowna, British Columbia, transfers, full-board accommodation in a remote ski lodge, and ski hire but not boot hire.