good idea or not ? i've gone skiing with other ipods but they were bigger ones with moving prts/hard drives and it ended terribly by the end of the season... but i've had a 2g shuffle thats basically bomb proof..
nanos use flash memory and the new ones are made the shake violently(shuffle feature) so that would be fine. the old hard drive ones always fuck up with skiing.
I have one that I use while skiing and it works great. The video camera is pretty crap though, and located at the bottom corner of the ipod, so really hard to use without covering it with a finger.