Organisations:
John Muir Trust Protecting wild land.

Scottish Ski Club
Alpine Club
Alpine Ski Club
offers membership for experienced ski tourers, grants for ski mountaineering and a transceiver hire scheme. Please use this link for transceiver hire.
Association of British Mountain Guides
Austrian Alpine Club (Austria)
Austrian Alpine Club (UK Section)
British Mountaineering Council
CAF (France)
includes a link to Meteo France (French met office), which has a special page for avalanche info:
(French Alpine Weather) for the Southern French Alps.
CAI (Italy)
a really good site with a complete list of all Italian huts and photos of most of them, weather forecasts etc.
Canadian Alpine Club
DAV (Germany)
DNT
The Norwegian Mountain Touring Association, who operate an excellent system of huts and organise ski tours.
English Ski Council Nordic
Mountaineering Council of Scotland
Royal Geographical Society
info about the society, including expedition training programmes.
Ski Club of Great Britain
Snowsport England (formerly the English Ski Council).

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Resorts and snow reports:
Canadian Avalanche Centre
CyberSpace Avalanche Center
US site with links to many different national and state avalanche information services.
Go Ski
Europe wide ski and weather conditions.
Met Canada
Mountainzone
US weather and snow reports.
Reallon
Resort/area info, web cam, but all in French.
Scotland
Scottish Avalanche Information Service (SAIS)
Ski France
Snow-forecast.com
Switzerland Tourism
Swiss Snow and Avalanche Institute (Davos).
Winternet
Scottish webcams and weather.

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Travel:
Austrian Railways
Eurostar
French railways
Snow Express
Discounted Coach Travel (Code will appear shortly on Document Central.)
Swiss railways on-line timetable
also includes Postbus links.
www.db.de
German train timetable (and rest of Europe!)

www.seat61.com - excellent tips for booking trains to europe.
www.leedstidal.org/sccleeds/calculator.php
Carbon Calculator – (A quick emissions comparison, Train: 0.13kg/km, Air: within Europe 0.5 kg/km and outside Europe 0.32 kg/km, Coach: 0.08 kg/km, Car: approx 0.15 kg/km).
www.climatecare.org.uk

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Suppliers:
BackCountry, Master boot fitters, High Street shop and on-line retailers.
Braemar Mountain Sports Shops in Braemar and Aviemoor and on-line.
FaceWest Adventure Equipment Specialists.
Lockwoods
Boot fitting specialists and touring gear stockists.
Ski Equipment
Ski boot fitters and touring gear stockists.

Euroski Ltd
Supplier of Nordic equipment.
Sport Conrad
'Europe's number one freeride and ski touring online store.'
Barrabes.com Spanish outdoor gear site offering club discounts – "Special offers for Mountaineering clubs according to the size of each order (from 5 to 20% for a minimum order of £200)".
Cotswold Outdoors
Dynastar
Field & Trek
Garmont
Mountain Equipment Co-op
Canadian site for outdoor equipment and gear.
Mountain Spirit
Backcountry Ski Equipment.
Scarpa
Service Sports
smcsport.com
UK suppliers of Garmont boots and other mountain gear.
Snow & Rock
Swiss Topographic Institute
all Swiss maps.
Telemark Pyrenees
The Map Shop
Tua Ski

Specialist tour operators:
Alpine-Guides
A friendly and experienced team of professional guides, who offer alpine guiding, ski mountaineering and expeditions worldwide, all in the company of leading activists.
John Hogg's Alpine Adventures.
Mountain Tracks
Mountain Tracks is run by Nick Parks, a member of the ESC who organizes and leads a number of trips to the Alps throughout the winter.
RPM Guiding Family run Guiding business based in Chamonix, France.
Ski Off-Piste
Julie-Ann Clyma and Roger Payne are British guides based in Leysin.
Wilderness Adventure Winter adventures holidays
including Husky dog sledding

Peak Retreats
Holidays and accomodation primarily in La Grave, Argentiere and Chamonix and the Vanoise.
Pyrenean Mountain Tours Tours, couses and holidays in the Pyrenees and beyond.
Telemark Ski Co Telemark Ski-ing instruction and leadership.
Adventure Scotland
telemark touring and coaching.
Alpine Tracks
provide winter and summer holidays in Morzine.
Fell Trek
cross country skiing in Lapland.
Mistaya Lodge (Canada)
Guided backcountry skiing in the heart of the Canadian Rockies.
Mountain Bug
French Pyrenees Alpine skiing and ski touring holidays.
Mountain Innovations
independent travel to/from Scottish hills – includes snow and conditions reports.
Pyrenean Mountain Tours
Ski Andes
Tangent Expeditions
Telemark Ski Company
Trail Alpine
run by Eagles members John Eames and Bonny Masson, offering instructional telemark courses and tours with BASI qualified staff, as well as their annual telemark week with the Eagles.
Travel-quest
run by your former Eagles webmaster, this specialist travel directory includes ski mountaineering and wintersports as well as other mountain sports like climbing, mountaineering, and winter walking.
White Mountain Adventures
cross-country and backcountry ski touring in the Canadian Rockies.

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Accommodation:
Hotel Solaria Comfortable hotel in Bivio,
Swiss Ski Touring Paradise.

Keith and Lyn Walker (email link)
have two appartments to let in Chamonix, each sleeping four.
Canadian Ski Hostels
Hostel accommodation in Banff, Fernie, Big White, Silver Star, Kimberley, Nelson, and Kelowna.
Low Gillerthwaite Field Centre
Ennerdale, Cleator, Cumbria. Superb outdoor activity and field study base. Hillwalking, mountain biking, rock climbing, orienteering, ghyll scrambling, canoeing, abseiling on the doorstep. For further details contact the Warden on 01946 861229 or e-mail Warden@lgfc.org.uk.
Nick Edwards (email link)
has three appartments to let in La Rosière, sleeping 1×six and 2×four.
Scottish YHA

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Others:
American Alpine
Francis Kelsey – US guide operating out of Chamonix - site includes weather and up-to-date snow and touring conditions in the Mont Blanc area.
Chalmers Univ (Gothenburg)
Guidebooks listing.
Gites d'étape et Réfuges
guide to (mostly French) accommodation in the mountains and recreational areas. The web version of a popular book.
Global Snow Shows
Ski and Snowboard Exhibitions, in Southampton, Manchester, Birmingham and Brighton.
MtN Mountain Sports
climbing and walking (mostly) site with directories, free small ads etc.
Outdoors Online
US directory of outdoor activities.
The Ptarmigans
Vancouver, WA mountaineering group. Mountaineering and rock climbing courses as well as a host of other activities including ski touring and ski mountaineering. "Join us for an outing, visitors are welcome."
Skirando
informal but interactive guide to ski mountaineering in Switzerland.
Telemark Tips
Vanoise National Park (France)
includes the opening dates and other details of all the refuges in the Vanoise.
Web cameras
in ski resorts all over the world.
Wilderness Medical Training
specialises in training lay-people (including expedition ski tourers!) in advanced medicine for travel to remote, hostile place.

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