Last season I decided to shake things up – to try something a little "off-piste" – by booking a trip to Stranda in Norway.
If visiting you would be wise to check-out Caboose's regular offers (Wednesday's £7 burger-and-pint deal, for example), although you may be tempted off-piste by its compact selection of local ales (Wantsum Dynamo, Gadds' No.3) and international craft beers (from £3.20).
The Sun, however, has gone boldly off-piste by training its outrage on "brainless" Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan, who on Monday posted a picture of herself pointing a gun at her head, and asking grieving parents for their views on this woman they've never heard of.
Evolution 2 You can get a first taster of life beyond the piste markers by joining an introductory off-piste afternoon with Evolution 2 in Tignes, France - open to anyone who can ski parallel on a red run (four hours, four to six people per group, €45/£31).
Since then the pistes, accessed by chairlifts, have grown to cover 104km.
Between those two points there are only informal desert pistes, used by smugglers.
Several resorts in the American Rockies now offer daylong heli-skiing trips or somewhat less adventurous tours into off-piste areas by snowcat.
The warmest winter since the late 1980s meant there wasn't much snow in the town itself, but with 78 pistes served by 34 ski lifts – including some over 2,500m – there was no problem finding somewhere to ski.
In the present study there was only one abdominal injury in giant slalom due to collision which took place outside the groomed slope area (loss of control on-piste followed by unintended deviation to off-piste).
As you would hope, though, going off piste is rewarded by treasure and money.
