Links to sites and services

forums and blogs | associations | instruction | other | shops | suppliers

greatday productions - website development for the ski and recreation industries

Portals, magazines, services

• FitLink Fitness Community - Find skiing partners and log your runs.

• mount hood's alpine village - Located in Government Camp, offers information for Mt. Hood lodging, skiing, and bed and breakfasts.

• ski-tips.com - British site geared toward people going on ski holidays who require general information, from learning how to ski better to investigating ski resorts

• snowlist.com - omnibus site for ski products and services and more

• unofficial squaw.com - local news, weather and information for Squaw Valley

• yamnuska - guide to skiing, mountaineering and climbing in the Canadian Rockies

• ski racing magazine - American journal of competition

• the skier's journal - provides industry news, product reviews and an open forum for hard core riders

• 1ski.com - well done UK site for all things ski

• resort sports network - resort TV programming, snow cams

• iglu.com - emphasis on resort vacations; European flavor

• sno-info.com - Australian general site

• SKIING magazine - ad-supported companion site to magazine

• SKI magazine - ad-supported companion site to magazine

• first tracks online - independent general magazine

• ski area management - trade magazine

• ski central - large directory to skiing sites

• on the snow.com - ad-supported general site

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Forums and blogs

• skiforums.org - links to major ski forums

• rippinskiers blog - colorado based "new school" skiers blog

• PMTS™ - the only official forum, monitored by Harald Harb

• EpicSki - Focus on instruction

• Paula's Ski Lovers - One of the oldest forums

• If You Ski - Huge British site

• ski.com - modest forum on travel oriented site

• Australian Forum - says it all!

• The Ski Diva - for female skiers

• Peace, Love, Ski - forum for women and significant others who ski and board

• The Sport Loft Skiers' Lounge - forum for friends and patrons of The Sport Loft

• Realskiers Forum - join the discussion—open to all skiers

 

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Instructing, coaching and racing

• harb ski systems - Harald Harb's official site

• PMTS™ - home to Primary Movements Teaching System

• The Clendenin Ski Method - John Clendenin's official site

• all mountain ski pros - Rob & Eric Deslauriers; The Extreme Team

• Craig McNeil - Nationally syndicated Denver Rocky Mountain News Colorado skiing columnist and coach

• North American Ski Training Center - NASTC is a total-immersion, multi-day, performance ski school for intermediate to expert alpine and back country skiers. We are based in Lake Tahoe, CA and run ski courses all over the country and world. NASTC is dedicated to providing upper level skiers with the best instruction and mountains available. Demo Team member Chris Fellows directs NASTC.

• kid-ski.com - devoted entirely to helping kids learn to love skiing, managed by U.S. Ski Team alumnus Steve Lathrop

• Turning Point Ski Foundation - collaboration between Alan Schönberger and Ellen Post Foster dedicated to, among other things, providing information and instruction to help skiers maximize modern ski technology

• Butternut Ski Club - devoted to racing in New England

• Mountain Guide Adventure - Chamonix-based mountain guide team providing heliskiing, ski touring, off-piste skiing, avalanche training, ice climbing, mountaineering, alpine rock climbing throughout the Alps and Worldwide Expeditions [version française]

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Associations and organizations

• ski utah - Utah Ski Association consumer site

• snowlink.com - official site, Snowsport Industries America

• nasja - North American Ski Journalists Association

• international skiing history association - The International Skiing History Association is a fascinating organization. Publisher of SKIING HERITAGE Quarterly, ISHA includes among its organizers some of the top names in ski writing and ski history. You can find virtually anything at this site, including decades' worth of indexed magazine articles.

• Professional Ski Instructors of America - U.S. ski instructors' association

• lex letters - raw correspondence between leading instructors and coaches — no affiliation with any organization, including P.S.I.A., though many "Lexers" are members of P.S.I.A.

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Other sites of special-interest

• National Ski Patrol

• U.S. Skiing - USSA, U.S. Ski Team

• Chalet Rentals Direct - Website putting skiers seeking to rent in top European resorts in direct contact with private chalet owners

• Vermont Ski Safety - makes binding testing equipment and studies safety on skis — learn how to protect your knees

• kidz-n-snow - devoted to providing information on all aspects of fun in the snow to families with children

• Ski Dubai - one of the world's most unusual ski resorts: indoors and surrounded by the desert!

• Ski Lebanon - skiing in Lebanon

 

to other links

Suppliers - skis, boots, bindings and accessories

Top shops - top service, expert boot fitting, generally knowledgeable

Coaches, teachers, racing - instructors and programs that work

 

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