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Just 1 More Run?

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Silly question (perhaps) - but if you were offered one last (ever) run on skis which one would it be?

Assuming I couldn't go for waist deep powder in Alta, Utah and was restricted to "normal" conditions and marked runs I think I'd go for "Jerusalem" in St Martin de Belleville for high speed, thigh burning hell.... Toofy Grin

Not a bad run to finish on (IMO) Very Happy
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I mis-read the title to mean last run of the day. However, given consideration these two would vie for your meaning

Val Thorens. Fourth Valley.

Or Glencoe, Spring Run.
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North Face of the Matterhorn.

That would definitely be the last (anything) ever, but what a place to go!!
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OK (VD) top to bottom with nobody else on it to ruin the drop offs, morning if possible, oh and some snow on the trees to make them extra pretty.
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Bergmeister, too difficult.
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Something long and spectacular and slightly scarily steep in part. How about the Bellecote North face? About 6,000 ft of vertical
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Bad karma. The 'just one last run' invariably leads to broken limbs or in my case skiing of a drop in flat light and smashing my head backwards on to an icy slope and tearing all my neck muscles (thankfully had helmet on).

Can I have a second last run please Laughing . If so mine is simple and sad. Pierre Blanches in La Plagne. Its not a hard run (7km of red and blue) it just holds many happy memories. Never fails to bring a smile to my face.
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I think I'd go for the happy memories of great people I associate with runs, too. The blue run down from the top of Flaine is one. Both of the classic runs down La Grave. Off-piste above Le Fornet. The Lauberhorn. Black Rock (ar Wengen). The Kandahar at St A. The run down from the Plein Sud at VT. Happy times. What? I have to choose just one? Oh, I can't. Laughing
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Valley de La Manche, provided Marks Crapahute was open for a cold beer after wink
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Point de Vue at Argentiere - and (strangely for a last run) early in the morning.
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thefatcontroller, I am with you on that one and would stop off at Le Sauget for an apero with the owners Pat et Gerard Toofy Grin
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Mouth, A favourite lunch spot of ours wink Cool
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I suspect I would decline the last ever run. The need to ski diminishes with time. The more I ski, the more I want to ski.
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Serpentine in Flaine (the first top to bottom I ever did on skis) , Cucumelle in Serre Che, or perhaps Yret, Eychauda, Combe Rateaum Chaume, Rochamout, Aya (top to bottom in Monetier).
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Or Glencoe, Spring Run ...


.... preferably on a blue sky day with deep fresh snow right back down to the car park. Very Happy
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This won't help my cool ratings but the one I'd do would be the farthest left red run (that runs into a blue) in Cervinia. Not hard but usually deserted and completely spectacular.

If not that, then possibly Combe de Vallon in the 3V.
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Last run ever? the home run Soll, with no one on it. It happens once per year if your lucky so if it's my last run it should happen. If that's not empty then the back bowls in Lake Louise, and if thats not empty this one will be pezid-vertikal Serfaus


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Ah, the pierre blanche - that was the first 'proper' run I skiied (well, after the plain bois) - I was so chuffed when I got to the bottom without falling over Smile Also love Le Sauget - stuffed marmots and all! They always appear with another beer just when you've decided you've had enough and were about to head back to Montchavin...
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I agree with achilles and Helen Beaumont about Serpentine in Flaine. It's great fun and normally is the very last run for us in Flaine but even for a blue it can be a hard one if your legs have had it.

Tulipe in Les Gets too.
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Lou wrote:
I agree with achilles and Helen Beaumont about Serpentine in Flaine. It's great fun and normally is the very last run for us in Flaine but even for a blue it can be a hard one if your legs have had it.

Tulipe in Les Gets too.

You beat me to it - I was about to vote for Serpentine as well! Or Mephisto Superieure on to Mephisto in the same resort.
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Tabuc, Serre Chevalier. Was the last piste I skiied last season.
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North Face of the Matterhorn.


I heard this has recently been reclassified to a purpley blue, due to the slightly technical entry point.
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mfj197 wrote:
Lou wrote:
I agree with achilles and Helen Beaumont about Serpentine in Flaine. It's great fun and normally is the very last run for us in Flaine but even for a blue it can be a hard one if your legs have had it.

Tulipe in Les Gets too.

You beat me to it - I was about to vote for Serpentine as well! Or Mephisto Superieure on to Mephisto in the same resort.


Oh yes that one too, particularly superior section. Love Faust too, but better with fresh legs.
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Everest or maybe K2, depending on conditions.
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There is a good run in the Skiwelt, down to Itter, which in intermittent bright sun and deep shade and given excellent snow has the combination of woodland track, steeper sections and open pistes which when hanging on the tails of 4 or 5 mates trying to beat one another top to bottom, can satisfy most of the senses and leave you with the biggest grin of the day.
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In Europe - the beatiful La Longia between Selva (Santa Christina) and Ortesi. It starts above the tree line with the fantastic views of the Grupa Sella and then winds its way down through 9km of treelined red run.

For north america it would have to be Blue Sky Basin at the back of Vail (can I count playing around in one basin for a day as one run please?)


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For me it's The "Hidden Valley" in the Dolomites - peace and nature at its best.
Although I may linger for ever at "Scotonis" as the horse tow at the bottom reminds me of something else. Smile
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Lou wrote:
I agree with achilles and Helen Beaumont about Serpentine in Flaine. It's great fun and normally is the very last run for us in Flaine but even for a blue it can be a hard one if your legs have had it.

Tulipe in Les Gets too.


It was the end of my first weeks skiing, and I would love to go back and do it again someday. We'd had awful weather all week , but on the Friday the sun came out, we skipped afternoon ski school and headed off with the rest of our friends. That's when I 'got it' and realised why everyone was addicted to skiing. It took us most of the afternoon, but the feeling of achievement at the bottom was sensational

Very Happy
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Oddly enough it wouldn't be the run itself, but who I'd do it with. Yes the snow needs to be fantastic, the view needs to be spectacular, and the sun needs to be setting after a fantastic day's skiing but it's who I do it with.....
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Serpentine in Flaine holds many happy memories for me too. Had my first ski holiday and like Helen Beaumont suddenly "got" it trying to follow a more-experienced friend.

However, like the OP, Jerusalem's rollers are a bit special so that's what I think I'd go for.
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Freddie Paellahead, haven't yet skied on Jerusalem.
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Mouth, A favourite lunch spot of ours wink Cool


The best lasagne in the Alps and an epic tree lined descent. I am with you both, on the run and the restaurant.
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The problem with Jerusalem is that every time we ski it we always do it at least 3 times on the bounce.... adn this is supposed to be my last ever run.
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Now I'm excited thinking of having Lasagne in La Plagne in December Laughing Laughing
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This may sound a little lame but I would go back to Zell am Zee and re-live the Black run down to the city express gondola. Embarassed

This was my first trip to the mountains, it was picture perfect conditions, sun, powder, the trees heavy with fresh fallen snow and the last
day of my first ski trip. A trip which if im honest changed my life. Blush
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I heard this has recently been reclassified to a purpley blue, due to the slightly technical entry point

of course you can take the less technical hornli ridge to the start point, in this case its probably no more than a green
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Mouth, A favourite lunch spot of ours wink Cool


The best lasagne in the Alps and an epic tree lined descent. I am with you both, on the run and the restaurant.


Ah yes that leads me to the story of mrsfatcontroller in January in Le Sauget telling me the plat du jour spoken very fast by the waitress and translated by my darling wife was veal. Yummy I said and I'll have a plate please.

On my plate arrived veal, well kind of veal. It was in actual fact the boiled tongue of the calf with some rice and tartare sauce. Yes, boiled, pale tongue, not even trimmed tongue it was the whole tongue. I ate the rice, drank my pint, chewed some baguette and swore all afternoon at mrsfatcontroller and her shoite translation. She nearly pissed her pants she was laughing so much at the lunch table.

Been back since but stuck to burgers, shall try the lasagne, though never the plat du jour again Skullie
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Jerusalem or Peak-to-Creek in Whistler
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Great story FC. Ah, the waitresses. Another reason to vote for Le Sauget and Pierre Blanches.
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