Smooth Park in the Super Chatel ski area is perfect for beginners and intermediates to practice hitting interesting and well shaped features while Avoriaz provides bigger boxes and rails to get creative on.

We are also just a couple of chairs from The Burton Stash in Linderet and the super park in Le Croset , Switzerland.

All this, coupled with our local knowledge and chilled out atmosphere, means we are the perfect snowboard and ski chalet.

Alpine Retreat is also the place to try this seasons boards from Never Summer.

Brothers Tracey & Tim Canaday started making their boards way back in 1983. Based in Denver Colorado Never Summer has now been officially producing snowboards since 1991.

What separates this company from many other snowboard brands is that each and every board is still hand built. Never Summer is one of very few snowboard brands able to do this.

They eschew high profile advertising campaigns and sponsorships preferring instead to spend on improving the workshop where the boards are lovingly produced.

This means that the boards sell themselves on performance alone and Alpine Retreat is the only place in the PDS where you can try them out.

For more information about our Never Summer 2012/13 Board Demo week from 21st – 28th January 2012 take a look at The Rider Social