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Learn how to use ski trail maps and how to understand ski trail signs in this free beginner skiing lesson on video. Expert: Dave Smith Contact: www.hillcrestsports.com Bio: Dave Smith has been skiing for 21 years. He has been working at Hillcrest Ski and Sports as a salesman & buyer for five years. He was an instructor with the Mt. Hood Meadows Ski School. Filmmaker: Jon Collins

Bob Salerno’s Virtual Snow Training System. The safest, easiest, way to learn. So you won’t crash & burn.

First time skiing for Eli and Emma. Eli is in a Bluecoat with black pants and Emma is in dark pink (almost maroon) pants with a black jacket.

A quick slideshow/video of a off-piste powder ski tour from Sonnekopf down to the little village of Langen in the Arlberg backcountry ski area in Austria, check out the high quality photos on www.torbensphotos.com

Yasuyuki Shimanuki gets some super dry waist deep Powder off Hanazono 2 in Niseko Japan. Niseko is off the Hook with the amount of powder it gets… They say it has the best lift accessible Backcountry Powder on the Globe Music DJ Bundi

* Johno’s Mountain Tips: Christmas stocking fillers, featuring pro rider Johno Verity * How to: Butter * Ski & snowboard news with this week’s guest host and Burton rider Jono Wood: o Highest recorded November temperatures in Switzerland o European competitions moving to the US because of worsening snow conditions o The Marmot basin records it’s highest November snowfall ever o How to guarantee a white Christmas * Freeskiing from 4FRNT rider Matt Sterbenz * Snowcast: weather & snow forecasts

www.skihanazono.com The Niseko area is known for some of the best off-piste powder skiing in the world. No other destination receives such consistently perfect powder. Niseko is a geographical magnet for weather systems delivering snow storms from the Siberian Peninsula and after filling with moisture on their way across the Sea of Japan these massive fronts collide and Hanazono in Niseko is the first place in their path dumping up to 16 metres of snow in a season… The water content of the snow is usually around 8% creating extremely light n fluffy powder snow…. Photography by http Skiier : Nicolas Cruz

www.skihanazono.com The Niseko area is known for some of the best off-piste powder skiing in the world. No other destination receives such consistently perfect powder. Niseko is a geographical magnet for weather systems delivering snow storms from the Siberian Peninsula and after filling with moisture on their way across the Sea of Japan these massive fronts collide and Hanazono in Niseko is the first place in their path dumping up to 16 metres of snow in a season… The water content of the snow is usually around 8% creating extremely light n fluffy powder snow…. Photography by http Skiier : Nicolas Cruz

www.skihanazono.com The Niseko area is known for some of the best off-piste powder skiing in the world. No other destination receives such consistently perfect powder. Niseko is a geographical magnet for weather systems delivering snow storms from the Siberian Peninsula and after filling with moisture on their way across the Sea of Japan these massive fronts collide and Hanazono in Niseko is the first place in their path dumping up to 16 metres of snow in a season… The water content of the snow is usually around 8% creating extremely light n fluffy powder snow…. Photography by http Skiier : Nicolas Cruz

www.skihanazono.com The Niseko area is known for some of the best off-piste powder skiing in the world. No other destination receives such consistently perfect powder. Niseko is a geographical magnet for weather systems delivering snow storms from the Siberian Peninsula and after filling with moisture on their way across the Sea of Japan these massive fronts collide and Hanazono in Niseko is the first place in their path dumping up to 16 metres of snow in a season… The water content of the snow is usually around 8% creating extremely light n fluffy powder snow…. Photography by http Skiier : Nicolas Cruz