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| pam w wrote: |
| The thing in LDA is not to insist on skiing down at the end of the day. Use the gondola. That actually applies to quite a few resorts, but some people have a psychological problem with it and prefer to make their last run of the day a bit of a battle with less-than-ideal conditions and having to avoid a lot of people picking their way down something too difficult for them. |
I have no problems taking the gondola down in any resort to avoid the struggles on bumpy, slushy crowded pistes. I've done it in Ischgl, Solden, Zell am See, Kitz, Mayrhofen (well you have to there), even Ellmau (though the red home run is better than the blue as few use it and it's no steeper). Who cares what people think... like to end skiing for the day on a good note, not a struggle.
Years since I've been to Deux Alpes - and I understand that they've added a home run, but the resort is upside down compared with most - the easy stuff is at the top, and the valley is relatively steep. Downloading there would be very sensible for cautious intermediates
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Layne wrote: |
| @phatcon, how does that change the fact you "havent skied [LDA] for years"? |
The resort hasnt changed that much in 20 years you twit. It has a new blue, that dodgy green and a few new walkways replacing drags on the nursery slopes.
That comment of yours is typical of the "clever cnut" attitude on here. Its such a yawn.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Thank you everyone for your replies. We booked ADH as we have some good confident skiers amongst us and felt that the resort offered something for everyone.
Agree @Frosty the Snowman, we’ve been to Corvara several times and it is fabulous.
I will check out the other recommendations for next year especially the relaxed Austrian one.
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ADH is great. Indeed, something for everyone.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I’ve never been to AdH but I have skied for 25+ yrs and so have been to many resorts in France and some in Italy (very rarely been somewhere twice L2A being one of them as went in 90s and again last year) and I am a very cautious intermediate. Search up my posts as I got great advice last year about where to ski in L2A but I can tell you of all the resorts I’ve been to it was the least suitable - in theory it looks like there is a lot but I found it very limiting.
I repeated the same 3 or 4 runs and had to download every evening - my hubby and friend did others but said I wouldn’t have got down them, I had a private lesson and she agreed with their assessment.
Resorts that have been good since I lost my confidence? Valmeiner/Valloire, Flaine, Les Carroz, La Touissiere, Le Rosiere/La Thuile, St Sorlin D’arves, Falcade, Le Grand Bornand - all head and shoulders above L2A tbh
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Thu 21-12-23 22:49; edited 1 time in total
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| JuliaLinsT wrote: |
Thank you everyone for your replies. We booked ADH as we have some good confident skiers amongst us and felt that the resort offered something for everyone.
Agree @Frosty the Snowman, we’ve been to Corvara several times and it is fabulous.
I will check out the other recommendations for next year especially the relaxed Austrian one. |
Good shout I think - we were going to try ADH this year but ended booking Valmeiner but would love to hear how you got on when you get back as may well go there next year
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Valmeinier is the only resort i havent liked. Valloire side was ok.
It was better than not skiing at all but i found it a soulless place.
Ski resorts are very marmite and subjective.
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Just to be the contrarian here, I absolutely love L2A and I've skied in a lot of French resorts. Partly it's just sentimental value, I learned there with UCPA in the mid-80s while spending a year abroad in Grenoble as a student, and L2A and ADH became our local haunts. Prapoutel quite a bit, too. Only ever went to Chamrousse once, strangely, even though it's just about visible from the city. The posters are right in saying L2A is an upside down resort. But anyone with a couple of weeks under their belt could easily manage the glacier in good vis, and being right up among the peaks really adds to the sense of adventure for a new skier. I was last there in 2020. The new blue run down to the resort, which wasn't there in 1987, is a huge improvement over Demoiselles, but what I really like are the excellent glacier with the most breathtaking views of the Massif des Ecrins, the very steep blacks in mid-resort (Bellecombes 5, Super Diable), and the much gentler Diable 1 and 2 black runs back into the resort. Cretes is also very good for beginners - a lot of people just ski around there and download in the gondola from there. I've been to L2A often but scarcely know the Vallee Blanche side - we often came on day trips so just bombed straight up Jandri to the glacier, but I can see it would be very quiet. In 2017 I also came for a week's holiday but the whole VB side was closed. Plus it's lower, so looks less snow-sure on that side. I think the village gets an unfair rap, I agree it's not pretty at all but on recent holidays we've found consistently, surprisingly, excellent restaurants of many varieties all along the strip.
ADH has better and much more expansive bottom-of-resort terrain for beginners IMO, and the Sarenne is manageable in good conditions for quite early intermediates (I did it countless times at that stage). OTOH, the Tunnel was properly intiminating. I've seen lots of recent YouTube footage, but haven't skied it myself since the 80s. Did they modify the exit and add a track to the right, or am I forgetting things? I seem to remember coming out of the tunnel and it dropping alarmingly almost right in front of me. Good resort, Fontfroide is a really nice area to ski for steepish but always groomed red runs.
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@skimummk, I will let you know how we get on.
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