Extra: £280pp for six full days' crèche, including lunch, leski.com Sölden, Austria, 1,350-3,340m, 33 lifts, 145km of piste, glaciers There's extensive skiing at Easter in Sölden – even in the driest of winters.
It has snow-sure, high-altitude slopes in extensive ski domains serviced by an unparalleled lift system.
The building is 750m from the village centre and the cable car, which takes you up to the surprisingly good and extensive ski area.
About 40 minutes by car gets us to Maiella National Park, our local mountain for skiing and walking, and in a further 30 minutes we reach the more extensive ski slopes of Alto Sangro or Abruzzo National Park.
Cerro Catedral, located less than 20km from the city and within the confines of the Nahuel Huapi National Park, is the area's most extensive ski resort, comprising almost 40 lifts and 1,200 hectares of terrain, about half of which offer off-piste skiing.
Jay averages 355 inches of snow, one of the biggest snowfalls in the East, and it blankets some of the most extensive glades skiing in the region, drawing serious skiers with its challenging chutes and very generous outbound policy.
SAUZE D'OULX, Italy www.comune.sauzedoulx.to.it Why go For a lively party scene and extensive, inexpensive skiing; to check out the up-and-coming venues for the next Olympics (Turin in 2006).
Meanwhile, more adventurous types can explore the area's extensive backcountry skiing.
("They still use real wood in the fireplace at the base lodge," one employee said.) Pico also offers an extensive adaptive-skiing program for those with disabilities.
Each resort's Web site promised extensive off-trail skiing, and l'Alpe d'Huez advertised the longest expert run in the Alps, the 10-mile Sarenne.
And in Switzerland, the world capital of tidiness and organization, hiking is especially pleasant thanks to a wealth of clearly marked and well-maintained trails, plus, even more important, an extensive system of ski lifts, cog railways, post buses and other means of conveyance to supplement your two feet or to give you a lift if you're feeling pooped.
