Journey to Val d'Isère, a world-class ski destination in the French Alps close to the Italian border. Together with Tignes, ...

He owns the Belvedere Hotel at Pian del Frais, a ski resort in Susa Valley, not far from where the 2006 Olympic winter games were held. The resort this year did not open due to the lack of snow ...

However you slice it, a ski vacation to the French Alps offers excellent quality skiing or snowboarding and is affordable in comparison to the Western US or Canada, but that’s not all.

As mentioned last year, Google added detailed lift and gondola maps for the Alps in the Skiing layer. I wish the US skiing destinations had detailed skiing information in the layers like this.

The Best Backcountry Hut-to-Hut Ski Trip Only Diehard Skiers Know About Skiing on Dammastock, an 11,909-foot peak in the Swiss Alps’ Urner mountains, is one of the purest ski adventures you can ...

Afton Alps ski instructor Brandon Serier puts his skis on the racks after a lesson on Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. This was Serier's first day on the job this season as a ski instructor.