S2. E33 Where's the best Snow Now, Helmet Buyers Guide, Catskiing Special, Spotlight on Kitzbuhel, The Latest Skiing News

Drop us a message with any questions you may have :)WELCOME OUR SPONSORS SKI INDEPENDENCEThe 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.******************NEWSDolomites Dirndl ski dayNick Fellows appointed director of FIS TVSouthern Hemisphere newsAndorra is not bound by the EU 90 day within 180 rule-----------------------GEAR GUIDESize 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-mouldBroadly 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.StyleMIPS that stands for Multi-directional impact protection system(thats the round yellow badge)Sweet Protection Igniter 2Vi MIPs helmet that comes in at £219Oakley Mod5 MIPS £221Hardnutz currently at around £50 Mountainwarehouse.com---------------------------------------------------------RESORT SPOTLIGHT - Kitzbuhel233 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 the Strief slope, which is marked black, good nursery slope in town with free lifts and then several long blue runs from the hannankahm and kitzbuler horn mountains.  The town is just below 800metres.BUCKET LIST - CAT SKIING3 places where you can cat ski, starting with British Columbia.14 operators listed on the Powder Highway website, but Baldface Valhalla out of Nelson is an interesting one.North Macedonia in the Shar Mountains - sharoutdoors.comNiseko - Shimamaki operated by the Support the showIn the meantime Enjoy the mountains :)  And Please do leave a review as it's the only way other like minded travellers get to find us! And don't forget to check us out on the following channels inthesnow.cominstagram.com/inthesnowTikTok@inthesnowmag youtube.com/inthesnowmagfacebook.com/inthesnowTo contact us with your suggestions for further episodes at [email protected] / [email protected]