01 What is SKICAST?

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SKICAST is the best way to plan your days at any ski resort.

User-friendly APP
7 day condition with pictograms
Forecast for skier and snowboarder
Now plan and enjoy

Skier/snowboarder: Use the application to select the best day for you

Ski patrol: Plan your workload

Instructor : Plan your skiing/snowboarding lessons according to conditions and forecast

Ski resort manager: Plan your staff according to conditions and forecast

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02 The Skicast App

The application’s objective FRANÇAIS

Is allowing skiers to find on-the-ground ski resort’s reality, and to
bring more skiers to the slopes.
With SKICAST the skier can make an informed decision
to optimize his outings to ski resorts.

We’ve created many types of information that are relevant to skiers and
that for the next 7 days.
– Detailed snow conditions: top layer type of snow, base hardness and a pictogram
– Ease Index for families and average skiers: ratings A+, A, B+, B, ...
– Powder alerts for expert skiers.
– Predominant weather on the resort during skiable hours (9AM to 4PM)
Snow conditions forecast
Easy to understand pictograms are used to quickly describe snow conditions,
for SKIERS and SNOW BORDERS

03 Ease of Skiing Index

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Ease Index (showing the exrience to ski for beginers or families)

The Ease Index a simple way for average skiers and families to represent what their day on the slopes

will be. For example, a snowfall of 20 cm (8 inches) would be classified as A++ for an expert but only B+
for families, due to the higher difficulty. Shown Index are determinated according to Skicast criteria
experienced for the last 30 years. More, Skicast professional ski conditions evaluations executed by any
of their certified members, are instantly injected into forecasting ski conditions for that day of evaluation,
for that resort; this contributes to an excellent ski conditions forecasting accuracy.

Predominant weather forecast

The application displays selected, useful and relevant weather forecasts for skiers, corresponding to the resort's opening hours.

Our mission is accuracy

We give ourselves the mission to provide ski conditions forecast with an accuracy of 95% and over

04 Ease of Skiing Index Description

The Ease of skiing index FRANÇAIS
represents the general experience you will have on the slopes.
Particularly useful for novice skiers and families, this information is simplified with a letter, the description of which is shown below.
We used over 46,000 ski condition assessments to create our computer program and the algorithm for accurately calculating forecasts and reality on the slopes of ski resorts.

A++  Ideal conditions made of powder snow covering a soft base; very easy
A+    Almost perfect conditions with powder snow
A      Excellent snow conditions with powder snow or fine granular snow; smooth finish on soft base
B+    Very good conditions usually made of groomed surface on hard base
B      Good general conditions; some hard or icy areas
C+    Average conditions, many hardened or icy areas
C     Conditions fair with many icy areas; difficult conditions
D+ Poor conditions; difficult to ski
D   Bad snow conditions; very difficult to ski
F     Closed resort

05 Skiers Icons

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Ideal conditions made of powder snow and soft base, very easy.
Almost perfect snow conditions of powder snow *Ideal for whole family
Excellent conditions made of fresh powder or fine granular snow, soft and durable trails

Ideal conditions made of powder snow and soft base, very easy.
Almost perfect snow conditions of powder snow * with light snow
Excellent conditions made of fresh powder or fine granular snow, soft and durable trails

Very good conditions, groomed surface on hard base underneath
* packed powder or mechanically worked surface

Good conditions made of deep snow
* Deep powder snow, more than 10 cm

Good conditions with melting base and granular snow (corn seed style)
Spring Conditions * Growing bumps or moguls

06 Skiers' Icons (cont'd)

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Generally good conditions, some hardened spots
*fast skiing, some icy spots

Generally good conditions, some hardened spots
* Sudden temperature drop or high wind blowing

Conditions average with some hardened or icy spots
Conditions mediocre with many icy spots or difficult conditions
Poor conditions, hardly skiable
Very poor conditions, very hardly skiable

Under rain,
Conditions average or mediocre
With melting areas or spring conditions

conditions printanières

No ski, ski resort closed

07 Snowboarders' Icons

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Ideal conditions made of powder snow and soft base, very easy.
Almost perfect snow conditions of powder snow * Ideal for whole family
Excellent conditions made of fresh powder or fine granular snow, soft and durable trails

Very good conditions, groomed surface on hard base underneath
* packed powder or mechanically worked surface

Good conditions made of deep snow
* Deep powder snow, more than 10 cm

Good conditions with melting base and granular snow (corn seed style)

Spring Conditions
* Growing bumps or moguls

08 Snow Boarders' Icons (cont'd)

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Generally good conditions, some hardened spots

*fast skiing, some icy spots

Generally good conditions, some hardened spots
* Sudden temperature drop or high wind blowing

Conditions average with some hardened or icy spots
Conditions mediocre with many icy spots or difficult conditions
Poor conditions, hardly skiable
Very poor conditions, very hardly skiable

Under rain,

Conditions average or mediocre
With melting areas or spring conditions

No ski, ski resort closed

09 On your Smart Phone

SUMMARY FRANÇAIS

"The weather forecast for today only?
It would not be very useful and certainly not enough,
the same goes for forecasting ski conditions "

SKICAST exclusively offers forecasts of ski conditions
7 days underfoot, with all the relevant information at the same location:

The type of snow expected on the surface and the base
- The ease of skiing index
- Pictograms representative of ski conditions
- Relevant information from the weather forecast
- Powder alerts
- and more