travel

The journey from Los Angeles to Mammoth Mountain is long and often riddled with traffic, speed traps, and bad roads.

So you’re going on holiday with your insanely tall boyfriend and don’t want him to grumble, or want to be able to stretch out your achy legs after a week of powder hiking – would be good to find out where the best seats on your plane are wouldn’t it?

Seatguru.com is a service from Tripadvisor which shows the seat layouts of planes used by the world’s major airlines and highlights seats you might want to try and bag – and those you want to steer clear of if possible.

The Animal Snow Camp crew just dropped us a line to say that places at this season's camp are filling up place so if you want to go along then it'd be a good idea to book up pronto!

There are five one-week camps starting on February 16, based in the BoardnLodge chalet in Argentiere, Chamonix. Each camps offers the chance to ride with Animal British pro riders.

Full details at www.animalsnowcamp.com

Olly from Mountain Mavericks in Morzine dropped us a line this morning to let us know he was just getting ready to head up the mountain this morning. Lifts in the region have opened early (just at the weekends) and he was headed for Les Gets, with Les Crosets and Chatel open for riding too.

Sunshine opened today with  8 out of 12 lifts running and 55 out of 107 runs open.

You can check out their webcam to see what we're all missing sitting at home behind our computers!

http://www.skibanff.com/conditions/webcams.php