A town or purpose built resort than is next to or surrounded by a ski area.

A lift that pulls skiers and boarders up a slope, with a T shape bar hanging from an overhead cable.

A lift where people get into a cabin, and are taken up a mountain. There are many of these on one cable.

A lift where people get into a cabin to be taken up a mountain, but with only one cabin on a cable.

Naturally fallen snow that has not been compressed, which you will sink into a lot.

Snow that is melting, after having melted and refrozen before, making it made out of ice crystals rather than snow crystals.

When it has not snowed for a while the pistes/trails will become more solid and icy, which makes it harder to push the ski edges into the snow, and generally reduces your control.

Where an unstable layer of natural snow breaks away and travels down a slope. They can be started naturally or by skiers and snowboarders, and can be of many different sizes and types.

Weather where the fog or mist is so thick that you cannot see more than a few metres. For more information please read the description in the Snow and Weather page.

Weather where the cloud cover is so thick that the light comes from all directions creating no shadows on the snow. This makes it very difficult to see bumps or even the gradient of the snow. For more [..]