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@French_Touch
Definitely do a season. I got my job through natives, was head barman at a hotel - the perfect job. You get to know everyone (and their business :) and you work evenings so other than a few odd days with an inspection from the pompiers and the mairie, and the odd hour sorting deliveries and stock counts, your days are your own.
I went riding every day, other than the week I had flu, even if it was for just a few hours. Running a busy bar all night, few beers to wind down, ski every day, and only a 3 hour shift on a saturday so essentially I had 2 nights off as well.
This was in France. The shop guys tend to be working a lot, though they do get a bit of riding in, the chalet hosts had the worst deal, but if you are totally on point and know your shit you can get out every day. If you get a bar popular with seasonnaires then you will have wild parties, know everyone well, and have some epic, busy as fuck, but a great laugh, nights, usually listening to slightly dodgy covers bands that are favourites with seasonnaires across the french alps. If you can play guitar, or even if you cant, then being in one of those bands is probably up there as the perfect job. With seasonnaires bars though, watch out you don't go for one owned by a big company as they will rip the pish in terms of the hours you are expected to work.