Product Description

We've spent the last year painstakingly updating every single resort in the book, as well as adding a number of new ones. We dissected the 2005 book, and have tried to cram as much information on each page as filling every spare millimetre and here's the results:

-- 25% more pages than last years edition and printed on glossy paper for the fist time. Still A5 and exactly the same physical size as last years book.
-- 512 pages; 384 black & white, 128 colour. Over 650 resorts reviewed
-- Detailed reviews, statistics, travel, photos & piste maps on all the worlds major snowboarding destinations.
-- Resort improvements for the 05/06 season
-- Country and State maps showing where each resort is located
-- Over 500 new photographs and pistemaps, bigger and easier to see
-- Summer glacier & camps guide. 14 pages telling you where and when you can snowboard in the summer months. Covers Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Switzerland and USA
-- Heli-boarding. 10 pages telling how to get fresh heli-tracks in Canada, France, Georgia, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and USA
-- 21 pages on far-flung snowboarding. Why not take a trip to Peru or Cyprus? Lebanon? Afghanistan?
-- Backcountry boarding
-- French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian and the new Russian language guides
-- 2006 Board test
-- Turnin 2006 and the UK Olympic snowboarding team
-- Getting fit for the slopes
-- Learn to snowboard
-- Building a terrain park. Have you any idea how much time and money it takes to build a successful park?
-- The UK AIM series
-- Major event calendar
-- Doing a season
--Riders tips section

Oh yeah, and 2 years free access to the extended website, see updated reviews, resort conditions, 5-day weather predictions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104811 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages

DCMT Snowboard Magazine
WSG has a well earned reputation for a no-nonsense evaluation of the best - and worst - resorts worldwide

TIME OUT
Independently written and crammed with practical advice.

Onboard Snowboard Magazine
The perfect snowboard travel companion

Customer Reviews

Terrific general reference guide, but the reviews could do with a bit of an up date.
As a snow border I'd always bemoaned the fact that all the guidebooks seemed to be written by a bunch of elitist skiers. So I was overjoyed to discover the WSG back in 2004
I've bough a couple of editions of this book and it is well worth the money if your planning a boarding holiday and need some general advice on a resort. Like all travel guides certain entries are a little wide of the mark or at worst omit fundamental pieces of information, but on the whole the guide covers the key topics about a wide range of resorts.
Unfortunately, much of the information in this guide has not been updated for about three years - the vast majority of entries in my original 04 edition are the same as the current edition. The only discernable difference seems to be some colour photos and slightly updated graphics.
Obviously most of the resorts remain the same, but things do change and it would have been nice for WSG to move with the times.
Still, don't be put off a purchase. If you need an all purpose guide to planning a trip this is as good a place as any to start.