VIP Weekend
VIP Weekend

Vallee Blanches and Heli-skiing
The courses last weekend enabled many of our clients to ski the Vallee Blanche from the Italian side, and some groups also went heli-skiing.

Valle Blanche 16th April 2008
Valle Blanche 16th April 2008

Val D'Isere Warm-up Weekend.
The first weekend of the winter in Val D'Isere.

UK staff escape from the office
Its not just the resort staff who have all the fun. Here's what some of the UK-based staff got up to over the weekend.

Touring on the Grands Montets
The TNTT course last weekend up on the glacier, exploring crevasses and enjoying breathtaking scenery.

TNTT 3 Feb
Out and about with Bruno and the TNTT team.

Sunshiny Skiing
A day out to St. Gervias in fresh snow and sunshine.

Sunny days
A selection of shots from the weekend of everyone enjoying the sun.

Staff training in Courmayeur
Staff training in Courmayeur 13th December.

So much snow, and all for us.
Great skiing at the end of February

Snow to the Valley Floor
Snow fell thick and fast last night to cover Chamonix in a blanket of white.

Skiing in August!
A little bit of Winter in the middle of Summer.

Ski Weekend's Summer Adventures
Ski Weekend's summer months of pargliding, mountain biking and climbing.

Ski Tour Cervinia - Zermatt - Saas Fee
A glorious week of ski touring and powder descents

Signs of winter
Signs of winter

Saas Fee Skiing
The Ski Weekend Team headed to Saas Fee on Sunday for some skiing

Powder Days
After the clouds had cleared we all enjoyed a powder day on the quiet slopes of Flegere.

Powder Day in Les Houches
After 2 days of fresh snow and colder temperatures this morning was a pefect powder day in the trees at Les Houches.

November 19th 2007
We've been skiing!! This weekend!!

November 15th 2007
The best start to winter for years.

March Madness
Perfect weather for a perfect weekend.

Loads of snow in Val d'Isere
Pictures from last weekend's Val d'Isere trip.

La Vraie Vallee Blanche
A group of Ski Weekenders take the 'true' Vallee Blanche in perfect conditions, just after a snowfall.

How Much Snow?
The clouds part to reveal the meters of fresh snow.

Heli skiing Kamchatka Russia
Heli ski trip end April Lots and lots of Photos, from the whole team Great snow, the last frontier

Heli Skiing 13 Jan 2008
Heli Skiing 13 Jan 2008

Heli ski safari in Sweden April 9th 2008.
Heli ski safari in Sweden 9th April 2008.

Heli Mont Blanc Easter
Super fit skier Karim, achived something special, 3 summits in 3 days, with Summit and skiing North Face of Mont Blanc. Superb snow, weather and skiing.

Getting the best of the early snow
Touring in Megeve.

Fresh Snow, Fresh Tracks
Fantastic conditions in the New Year, with lots of new snow for everybody to enjoy.

Fresh snow on the Vallee Blanche
A trip down the Vallee Blanche in perfect snow and sunshine on Thursday.

First Vallee Blanche of the Season
Christmas Eve saw some of the team head up to do a recce on the Vallee Blanche.

First snow of 2007
First snow of the year.

First real snow of the winter
First real snow of the winter

Christmas week.
Photos from the Christmas break in Chamonix

Chamonix after the storm
Chamonix after the storm. Tuesday 11th December.

Brochure shots?
Last week we were out taking pictures for next year's brochure. Just Look at the amout of snow.

April Fools!!
More sun, more snow and excellent April skiing.

April 2008 - Fantastic conditions for all
April 2008 proved to be one of the best months for skiing this season.

Alagna Heli Skiing 8 - 11 February 2008
Off piste skiing and boarding in the Monterosa.

99.96 Haute Route April 23rd-28th 2006
The Haute Route adventure from Chamonix to Zermatt.

99.95 Powder day
Grand Muir Grand Montets

99.94 Today's powder at the Grands Montets.
Half a metre of fresh snow yesterday and overnight, and bright sunshine today up at Grands Montets: conditions just don't get any better than this.

99.93 Courmayeur 28th March
Storms throughout Wednesday and the evening. We went through the tunnel to escape the worst of the snow. Great skiing, deserted slopes. April and May are set to be great ski months.

99.92 Spring sunshine on the slopes of Chamonix.
Vallee Blanches, and skiing in the sun.

99.91 The sunshine after the storm.
Chamonix opens again after heavy snowfall last weekend.

99.9 Russia Heli skiing
Assorted pictures from the trip. The snow was amazing, with a 3.5ms base. Good skiing Gavin Foster

99.8 The long-awaited snow arrives.
This week, there has been significant snowfall in and around Chamonix. These were taken in St Gervais yesterday.

99.7 Top Secret
For the last 10 years, Ski Weekend guests have nominally headed for Alagna Italy, however with poor snow cover we have instead searched out the best snow in the Alps. Leaving the decision until the 11th hour. The weekend is fixed every year, but the venue changes. 06 2 days in Gstadd and 2 days in the Porte du Soliel. Pretty good conditions all things considered.Powder on the NE facing slopes and some spring snow on the S facing slopes. After 4 days not a mark on the ski bases! Good skiing Gavin Foster

99.6 Vallee Blanche: powder on the Petit Envers.
Gavin, Susie and Lizzie in the VB on a beautiful sunny day.

99.5 Belle Trace course touring and cruising.
The Belle Traces course in and around the Vallee Blanche last weekend.

99.4 Staff days. Great skiing in 06
Lizzy, Guy and Susie in the Brevent couloirs 19.01.06 after big dump of snow, skiing Lavancher 1st run in the AM North facing slopes with no sun!

99.3 Le Tour after a weekend of snow- 02/01/2006.
Skiing down past the avalanche barriers off the Posettes, towards Le Tour.

99.2 New Years Day 06
Skiing in Combloux and on the way to Giettaz. Powder, sun, deserted slopes

99.1 After Christmas before New Year
Just getting busy after a very quiet start to the season. Great skiing with very few people. Snow on the way

99 Brevent/Flegere at the start of the season.
An epic day in Brevent and Flegere on our first day up there this season. New, fluffy, untracked snow everywhere.

98 Staff skiing in Les Contamines.
The Ski Weekend Staff rip up the powder on a beautiful day in Les Contamines.

97 Ski Orientation in Les Houches 09/12/05
The fresh snow in Les Houches is carved into with style by the first ski orientation group of the season.

96 Warm Up Weekend in Val D'Isere.
TNTT get to grips with a half-metre of the finest powder on the Grand Motte glacier in Tignes, under the guidance of Gilbert Matillat.

95 Ski Sunday
Holly,Abby, Maia, and Friends skiing the Pierre a Ric in Argentiere. Great snow, and conditions

94 Skiing at Les Houches 1st turns of the winter
Man made snow on the World cup run, with fresh snow on top. Just a few locals try to rember if they could still do it. More Snow on the way.

93 Keswick Mountain Rescue
Guys on the Mer de Glace. Cold day! Ice school and training

92 Tignes last week
Skiing in Tignes last week 09/11/05

91 Gavin and Brian 1st turns of the winter
Aiguille du Midi. Sunny Sunday

90 Quick blast to summit Mont Blanc .
2 Ski Weekend ex pats. Summited Mont Blanc from the valley floor. Ideal conditions.

89 Summer Climbing shots
Climbing summer 05. Ski Weekend guests climbed the. Grand Paradiso, Mont Blanc, South face of Grand Jorasses, Eiger, Peigne. Please mail gavin@skiweekend.com for info on Summer 2006.

88 Corsica June 2005
Holidays in Corsica,Paradise in the sun Canyoning,Climbing, windsurfing and of course chilling out on the Beach

87 Grand Jorasses August 05
Climbing the south route of the Grand Jorasses.

86 Haute Route 17-23 Apr
Superb conditions to tackle the classic Alpine tour.

85 Another snowy April Weekend
1 m of new snow fell. 20cms on the Valley floor. Sunday was one of the days of the season.(sorry no pictures) Monday 18th and the pictures are below. Good skiing, more snow on the way.

84 The Day after! April 10th
Great skiing in the VB on the Italian side

83 - Powder, powder everywhere!!
Winter returns to Chamonix with over half a metre of new snow.

82 - More snow and sunshine
Chamonix gets more snow, and then perfect sunshine.

81 Piste Perfection and touring heaven
Piste Perfection and touring heaven

80 - Powder, classic tours and steep couloirs
Ski Weekend staff enjoy fantastic snow on classic tours and steep couloirs around Chamonix

79 Find the best snow, using a helicopter
3 days of heliskiing in the central Swiss Alps. 1st tracks on the 1st 2 days, superb conditions, cold powder snow. The pictures are not big enough to do justice.

78 Half Term Week
More and more snow. Everything is now possible, the Vallee Blanche, Pas De Chevre, and all Off Piste itinerarys. More snow over the next couple of days. Good skiing Gavin Foster

77 Staff Away day
Deep cold snow. Great skiing. Holiday time! However we skied fresh tracks all day long.

76 Find the best snow
7 guys and 2 guides. Searching for the best snow in the Alps. We found it!

75 Blue skies and fresh tracks
Toutes Neige Tous Terrains and Belle Traces courses enjoy stunning views, good weather and fresh tracks on the tour of Col du Crochue and Col de Berard courtesy of legendry Chamonix guide, Yves Detry.

74 First powder day for ages!
lizzie, stuart, Gavin and Susie ripping it up at Grands Montets and Plan d'Aiguille.

73 TNTT, Belle Traces and PP 14th-17th January.
Skinning in Les Contamines and PP in Brevent.

72 Fun in the sun on the first weekend in Jan
Chamonix, Courmayeur and paragliding.

71 A sunny start to 2005
Ski Weekend clients enjoy the first week of the year in Flegere.

70 New Year in Courmayeur
The Ski Weekend team still manage to hunt out some fresh tracks even after a week with no fresh snow fall.

69 Christmas in Chamonix
Great skiing on the Flegere. Over the christmas week end.

68 Pila, les Contamines, SNOW and yet more SNOW
It just keeps snowing in Chamonix at the moment, so fresh tracks to be skied every morning

67 Dumping in Cham
Chamonix village getting its much overdue helping of fresh snow

66 Three Countries in one weekend
The Great Ski Weekend Snow Hunt. (La Thuile, Cervinia, Zermatt)

65 Warm up Weekend in Val D'Isere
50cms of snow fell last Tuesday. Great skiing on the Glaciers and on the pistes with man made snow

64 1st snow of winter 04/05
Playing with the kids and igloo building

63 Couloir des Cosmiques West Face of the Aiguille
West face of the Aiguille du Midi. Staff Day out. Classic skiing in the Chamonix Valley. 800m of 45 degrees plus, in powder snow.No falling at the top!

62 Great skiing. Powder in April
Great skiing, no people.More snow to come.

61 Ski Weekend Easter Guests
Guys in the powder

60 Easter Weekend
Great skiing and ski touring

59 Snow falls In April
Great skiing few people. The next couple of weeks will be epic!

58 Heli Skiing
Plateau De Trient 27th March

57 Piste Perfection
JP and his group March 2004

56 Clocks go Forward
Thursday and Friday in the fog! Saturday and Sunday perfect weather.

55 Tandem Paragliding
Flying with Jaqui

54 Spring weeks in March
Hottest Spring week

53 Staff on days Off
Red de Ligne, Austrian on the Pas De Chevre, also Col du Passon

52 weekend 6th 7th March

50 Col de Passon
Glacier de Mont Blanc Group

49 Heli Haute Route Via Mont Blanc

48 Alagna2004

47Top Secret
Sking on a Powder day in Switzerland

46End Jan
Powder skiing

45 24th Jan
24th Jan

44 Dart Boys on tour.
The west country boys time it just right.

43 Courmayeur 17 Jan
Face shots in Courmayeur

42 Girls in the Cloud
Cold and cloudy, with girls everywhere.

4-11 Feb 2008
4-11 Feb pics

41 Early birds get the best conditions.
You have to be up early to avoid the crowds at New Year, but it is worth it.

40'Twas the weekend before christmas
Cold and plenty of snow.

39Fantastic conditions in Italy
Courmayeur Friday 12th December

38Val d'Isere warm up
Warm up weekend 2003

37 30th November
November goes out with a bang!

36 Tignes 15 November
Early skiing on the Grands Motte

35 1st of November
They'll soon be opening.

34 26th October 2003
First taste of winter.

33 8th March
8th March

32 10th Feb Chamonix
10th Feb Chamonix

31 Megeve 9 Feb
9th Feb: In the trees around Megeve.

30 Chamonix plumbers
Where are all the plumbers when you want one?

2nd Jan Snow over night
New Years day in Courmayeur, was truly amazing! Rain and then lost of snow. Overnight 40cms of snow and more up high

29 Let us entertain you.
A day at work with the Ski Weekend team.

28 Tom (telemark) Walker
Tom will not be in the office today. He is working offsite!!

27 Better and better and ...
Better and better and better and..............

26th November 2007
More snow more pictures.

2-6 Jan
Sunny pictures from Les Houches and Courmayeur

26 Sun after 3 days of snow 26 Jan.
Sunshine after 3 days of snow.

25 Grands Montets 23 Jan
Powder day on the Grands Montets

24 Belle Traces Jan 17-20 (2)
Belle Traces group 17-20 Jan. Perfect ski-touring day.

23 March
Skiing after the storm

23 Belle Traces Jan 17-20
23 Belle Traces 17-20 Jan

22 March 2008
Snowed all day today!

22 Jan 10-14
Jan 10th to 14th

21 TNTT 2-6 Jan 2003
Toutes Neiges Tous Terrains Jan 2-6

20 Christmas at Le Tour
Cloudy Christmas treats in Le Tour

1st May 2008 POWDER!
Here are the pics to prove, big powder day on the 1st of May!

19 Candy and Candy
Candy and Candy braving the weather.

19 - 25 Feb
The sun is still shining and the snow is still great.

18 Courmayeur and Les Contamines
Thick fog and ships crashing into each other in the channel: blue skies and perfect conditions; 3 resort in 4 days.

17-23 Jan 2008
TNTT, Piste Perfection and classic Ray-Bans.

17 Courmayeur 13th Dec
13/12/02 Whilst the UK was enveloped in fog see what was happening in Courmayeur on Friday the 13th.

16 Val d' Isere Warm up Weekend 2002
Fantastic conditions for our warm up weekend in Val d' Isere 5th-9th Decemeber 2002

15 First weekend of December
Great snow on the Grands Montets. Our resort staff on the 2nd December 2002.

14 Grands Montets 23 Nov 2002
This has to be the best start to the season for years. It just keeps getting better.

13-16 December
Skiing this Weekend.

13 Tignes 17 Nov 2002
Skiing in Tignes 17th November 2002

12 Early snow 10 Nov 2002
Views around the valley on the 10th November 2002

11 Day off 11/04/02
Everyones got to have a day off see what we get up to on ours!!

10-16 Jan 2008
10-16 Jan 2008

10 Steve Hayes Vallee Blanche Feb 2002
Steve Hayes Vallee Blanche

08 25th Feb 2002
Dumping down

07 Aidan and Andy Envers du Plan
Adrian and Andy Envers du Plan 5 Feb