About Slopes & Seasons
The UK's guide to ski season gap years — built by someone who's actually done it.
Why Slopes & Seasons Exists
Brexit changed the landscape for UK seasonaires. Suddenly, visas were more complex, opportunities less clear, and much of the advice online became scattered, outdated, or heavily biased toward course providers selling packages.
After six seasons working in the mountains, I kept getting the same messages from friends and family: Where can I go? Which qualifications actually matter? Is this still possible from the UK?
The honest answer was frustrating - the information existed, but not in one clear, independent place.
So I built Slopes & Seasons to fix that.
But this site is about more than logistics.
Doing seasons genuinely changed my life. I arrived in Banff as a fresh graduate with no ski qualifications and left with a career path, lifelong friends across three continents, and a level of confidence I never expected. Along the way I learned how to teach, how to adapt quickly in unfamiliar places, and how to build a life around the mountains.
The mountains teach you things no classroom can.
If this site helps even one person take the leap - to travel, to work a season, to experience the community and the magic of helping someone link their first turns - then it's been more than worth it.
Who Built This
Freddie Wilkins
British, CSIA-qualified ski & snowboard instructor & physiotherapist
Six seasons across Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Andorra
Why Trust Us
- ✓Real-world insight — based on my own seasons plus detailed research and first-hand input from the wider seasonaire community.
- ✓Pre- and post-Brexit insight - I understand what's changed for UK seasonaires
- ✓Independent - no course provider pays for placement or recommendations
- ✓Community-driven - built from the real questions people kept asking
The Goal
To make ski season gap years accessible, affordable, and achievable - without 40 hours of forum digging or government website confusion.
If Slopes & Seasons helps you get there a little faster - even better.
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