In the third and final part of our Season Blog Series, Ian Felher tells us why despite having a good winter's worth of snowboarding in Morzine France, he won't be returning next season...

The skier turned snowboarder who "never looked back" is a familiar story, but SnowSphere sub editor Jon Mitchell pulls a 180, ditches his Italian "Bastard" board, picks up some poles and heads to the hills to make some parallel turns…

Espresso, gelato, pasta, pizza, panini, prosciutto, foccacia, cappuccino, tiramisu…is your mouth watering yet? Maybe it's time you took a vacanza to Italia and head to the Alps for some snow sports? Dave Scoppa reveals the Italian secret of Prato Nevoso...

Does rolling around on a board with wheels serve to ease the loss of snow underneath your feet, or is it simply a tease during the dry months? Are these two board sports serving different purposes, meaning skateboarding really is no substitute for sliding on snow?

Largely overlooked by Western skiers and snowboarders, the mountains of the Middle East hold plenty of exotic allure for the snow traveller. Mitch Malli hits the ski slopes of "axis of evil" Iran, to find plenty of powder, snowboarding equipment from the 1980s, and a very eager Sun Burnt salesman...

Doo-rag or not doo-rag? That is not the question, but with gansta skiers and fluoro snowboarders on the slopes, has the world of winter sports fashion pulled a backside 180 as snowboarders and skiers swap clothes?

Kicking Horse is one of the newest ski resorts in North America. Famed for off piste powder and an "experts only" attitude, Tom Wilson-North takes a look at this wild stallion, to see if it lives up to the hype…

Like sand, Australians seem to have a habit of getting everywhere. Aussie native Dave Scoppa explores the pros and cons of meeting his fellow countrymen in ski resorts across the world…

There's something quite surreal about being able to view the Mediterranean Sea and the mountains of North Africa whilst strapping on your snowboard. Rob Gray, based in the southern Spanish mountain range of the Sierra Nevada gives a round up of the 2006/07 season...

Matt Barr, Chris Moran and Ewan Wallace have laid lines on mountains that few people will ever lay eyes on. Iran, Lebanon, Greenland, Uzbekistan and Russia are just some of the far flung snowboard destinations they've sampled snow in. We met up with these intrepid snowboard journalists to see if travelling the world to snowboard in exotic ski resorts and then writing about it was officially the best job in the world...

After a long season of working in a ski resort and putting up with the tourists, there is only one thing to do - become a tourist yourself. Dave Scoppa heads deep into British Columbia with a board, beers and some basslines on a snowboarding road trip into interior Canada...

SnowSphere heads north to Scandinavia, to explore inner city snowboarding on Stockholm's slopes of Hammarby Backen, one of Sweden's urban ski areas…

What's it like to give up your country, the lifestyle you love and a dream job in Whistler, one of the most desired locations in the snow sports world, for the love of a woman? Fran Hardy pays tribute to her Canadian Alien...

Part 2 of our season blog series, Ian Fehler reports on the highs and lows of a winter season in Morzine, France...

SnowSphere braves blizzards in the Highlands to get its first taste of snowboarding in Glenshee Scotland, in a search for Scottish powder which results in donating plenty of p-tex to the gods of the Cairngorms... 

Bansko, Bulgaria has been hailed as the next big thing when it comes to skiing and snowboarding. The winter sports media has shouted loud about the large ski area, the extensive freeride possibilities and the low prices that undercut anything in Western Europe. But does snowboarding in Bansko really live up to the hype? Dave Horlock reports...

Editor and founder of SnowSphere Magazine, Sam Baldwin, describes his ongoing affair with a cold hearted lover which has taken him to 9 countries across 4 continents in an ongoing search for snow...

SnowSphere speaks to the legend of Chamonix, Neil McNab - former pro-rider, entrepreneur, student of the mountains and mentor to many a snowboarder...

The SnowSphere crew heads east, to the rust of the iron curtain in search of Slovakian Snow in the Tatras Mountains, and ends up in Poland on a journey to the centre of the Earth…

The first in a series of Season Blogs, we get the inside story of what it's really like to work a winter season. In this introductory post, Ian Fehler and his wife prove that it's not just 18 year old gap year students who can enjoy ski resort life...