Ski Advent Calendar
A 24-door advent calendar made for a skier — a slope essential or a bit of après kit behind every door, one for each day of December up to Christmas Eve.
Bought it for my husband, who starts checking the snow report some time in October. He opened the 1st at six in the morning before work and sent me a photo of it from the kitchen. Twelve years of ski socks and I have never once had that.
Priya Raman-
Twenty-four small things chosen for someone who skis: slope essentials small enough to live in a jacket pocket, bits of apres kit for the evening, and written notes. One behind each numbered door, so there is something every morning rather than one big thing at the end.
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Before the 1st of December, so the first door opens on time. Orders are processed in 1–2 business days and ship from the US with tracking, so ordering in November leaves plenty of room. If it arrives mid-month they simply open the doors they have missed in one go — nobody has ever minded that part.
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It travels fine - the box is rigid card rather than the thin folding kind, so it survives a car boot and stands up on a chalet table. Most people leave it at home though, because it finishes before they fly. See the last question.
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No. It has twenty-four doors, so the last one opens on Christmas Eve. Worth being straight about what that means for a skier: if the trip is in January, the calendar is the build-up and not the holiday - it will be finished before anyone gets on snow. For most people that is the point, because the waiting is the hard part. But it is the honest answer.
The Calendar
The Hardest Part Of Skiing
Is Waiting For It.
By December the gear is already down from the loft, the forecast gets checked far more often than it needs to be, and the trip is still weeks away. Everyone close to a skier knows that feeling, and nobody has ever found a present that does anything about it. This one does. It turns the waiting into the thing itself: a door a day, counting down to the first chair.
Twenty-four doors. Twenty-four mornings closer to the snow.
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One Door A Day
Numbered 1 to 24 across the front, counting down to the first chair of the season
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Slope And Après Kit
Small things that end up in a jacket pocket, not in a drawer with the novelties
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Ready To Give
It arrives boxed and sealed — nothing to assemble, fill or wrap
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Ships From The US
Processed in 1–2 business days, tracking emailed when it leaves
24 doors · opens 1st to 24th December · arrives boxed
The Difference
Another Pair Of
Thermal Socks
In A Gift Bag.
Every skier gets them. Grey, sensible, still in the packet, from someone who knew they liked skiing and ran out of ideas in the shop. They are not wrong either - the socks do get worn. They are simply not a present anybody remembers getting.
That is what happens when a sport is hard to buy for. The kit is personal, the sizes are specific, and anyone who does not ski themselves is guessing. So they buy the safe thing, and the safe thing has always been socks.
This one is not a guess. It is twenty-four small things that belong to the sport, spread across the one month of the year when a skier is already thinking about nothing else.
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24 Doors, Not One Gift Bag
A reason to think of them every morning, not once
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Ships From The US
Out the door in 1–2 business days with tracking
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30-Day Money Back
Unopened, full refund, no questions
The Usual Ski Gift
Grey socks in a gift bag. Worn once. Forgotten before the first trip.
Ski Advent Calendar
Opened twenty-four times, counting down to the day the season finally starts.
Socks. In a bag. Again.
Twenty-four mornings closer to the snow.
Our customer experiences.
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★★★★★
It came to the mountain with us 🎿
Threw it in the boot with the boots and the bags half expecting it to arrive crushed, and it came out fine - the card is rigid, not the flimsy folding kind. Opened the 1st in a service station car park at seven in the morning, which is apparently who I am now.
Logan Thorsby -
★★★★★
The whole chalet made a thing of it
Stood it on the dining table and it turned into the thing everyone came down for. Whoever was up first got to take the door off, and by the third morning there was an argument about whose turn it was. Two people in the group have already asked me where it came from.
Erika Vandal -
★★★★★
Bought it for myself, no regrets
Twenty seasons in and December is still the longest month of the year. Having one small thing to open each morning made the wait something to enjoy rather than endure. Only thing I would change is the timing - we fly out on the 27th, so the calendar finishes three days before the season actually starts for me.
Callum Whitfield