Holiday Gifts for Skiers

This ski season you can find family ski vacation deals for resorts around the country. Destination ski resorts are really reaching out to families with travel, lodging and skiing packages and you can find some real savings right at home as local areas offer enticing "staycations."

Treat the entire family to a gift that will create lifelong memories and make snow skiing a family tradition.

Julbo Orbiter - First Class series goggles are at the top of my list pursuing the best one-goggle-quiver for varying light conditions. Photochromatic lens, excellent ant-fog properties and the lens is spherical for better peripheral vision. Extender strap for even the biggest helmet and a tacky strip to keep them from sliding off. You'll hear more about these later.

If you don't have a factory applied ant-fog coating on your present goggles here's a reliable lens cleaning and anti-fog treatment application from Bausch + Lomb. Easily applied and lasts for a day of clear vision skiing. Comes in small individual packets and makes a great stocking stuffer for Santa.

The Rocker ski technology is growing every stronger and is now evident in every manufacturers line-up of skis for the 2011-12 season. There's a ski here for everyone on your list.

The skier on your gift list, especially if it's you, will be wowed by all the choices in boots this season. For example, Atomic, Lange, Fischer, Rossignol, Tecnica, Surefoot, and Salomon all have new and returning models for this season.

As I always say, "Take a Lesson" regardless of the level skier you are and lessons make a great holiday gift. Remember that the best skiers in the world like Lindsey Vonn and the U.S. Ski Team are coached on a daily basis.

Almost every ski resort offers ski lessons from professional ski instructors and many have specialty clinics and programs targeting certain skills - moguls - and groups - ladies teaching ladies, for example.

Here's a unique, custom design, one-of-a-kind ski glove by Grandoe. When I say unique, I mean you can't get any more unique because, you are the designer and you make choices as to what colors go where.

With the synthetic, lightweight EnduraLoft insulation and the waterproof and breathable outer Pertex Shield fabric the Outdoor Research Igneo makes for comfortable skiing on both cold bluebird days and days when it's snowing and blowing. It's a great present for your favorite skier.

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