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A snowHead

Already booked my usual Kitzbuhel Christmas. Trois Vallees for Feb Half-term. Might well do Les Arcs for Easter, but not sure at present about that one.

A snowHead

scream,

Deb & I were in Saas Fee in the first week of July on a Warren Smith course.

Had a superb time. Snow was very good. We all met at the lift station at 8.00am (although the lift opened at 7.30 I think) and it takes a while to get up to the top as there's a couple of lift changes and they're not that quick. We were skiing by about 8.50am.

It's hard work carrying your skis, poles & boots to the lift station & up on the first day but they have an indoor seated area adjacent to the ski shop, ice museum & restaurant (at 3800m apparently it's the highest at revolving restaurant in the world) were you can 'gear up'.

They also have lockers up there so you'll need a 5 swiss franc coin (non refundable) each day so you can leave your skis up there. Some guys also removed the liners from their boots each day and left the heavy shells in the locker as well. You can get 3 or 4 pairs of skis in one locker.

The ski shop at the top hires out equipment but make sure that you've bought any drinks & food you want in the town as I paid nearly £4 for a bottle of water on the first day Sad

Well all took a rucksac for our food, drink, trainers, spare goggles, fleece etc. Everyone leaves their rucksacs at the bottom of the Tbar were they were perfectly safe.

I was skiing in a wicking tee shirt & my unlined jacket and I was warm enough - just put my fleece on when we stopped for food as I soon cooled down once stopped. When the sun was out is was pretty hot (25 degrees C in the town in the afternoon) and I was using 50+ factor sun cream & still got a bit pink on my forehead. The cloud cover can come in very quickly over the glacier & visibility gets very poor very quickly so a spare pair of low light goggles is a must.

The pistes had been well bashed overnight & there are some good areas for off piste if you get some overnight snow as we did on a couple of nights.

The glacier is on the north side of the mountain but the snow obviously does start to soften as temperature rises throughout the morning. We found the varying conditions really useful in developing the relevant techniques etc & this was one of the main benefits of doing the course there as we got a huge variety of conditions over the week with the tuition on hand to enable us to handle it.

When we were there, the last Tbar back up the slope was at 1.30pm, after that the glacier was shut. We only had one day when as it was too warm & the snow was getting too soft by about 12 so we had to pack in.

There's also an excellent freestyle park/half-pipe plus there's the skierX course which is undoubtably the best fun you can have with your clothes on Very Happy

If you're up to it (& I wasn't) the afternoons can be spent walking & mountain biking - most people take their bikes up the lift to save the uphill pedalling. Saas Fee also has a great indoor swimming pool with jaccuzzi's & sauna's to sooth those weary limbs.

Apparently JonL was there the week after me so you also could ask him for some feedback as well.

I'm sure you'll have a great time, & yes, it's cetainly better than waiting until January snowHead

Kramer, sorry for hijacking your post Blush

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Back to the UK tomorrow - ugh Crying or Very sad

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24/12 to 7/1 whole of Tarentaise from Val D'sere to Valmorel.

Thinking of crossing the pond in Feb/Mar.

Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...

Bad Hofgastein over the New Year for 9 days, Banff in March for 14. Can we fit in/ afford another??

After all it is free

Blimey! We're a well organised lot aren't we?
I'm going to Sauze d'oulx for Christmas & then probably somewhere in France for a week in March

October - Hintertux, Christmas - Wengen, New year - Alpbach.
A weekend in La Plagne in Jan. A weekend in Meribel in late Feb. Then 3 weeks over Easter in Les Houches, Meribel and Puy St Vincent.

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philbski1, Perhaps see you at the Brits and English then!

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PG, More than likely. I'll definitely be at the British. May have to get someone else to run the English for me though.

snow reports

Saas Fee in 2 weeks time (on the Warren Smith course)
Dec 26th - Tignes
Jan 29th - Les Arcs (Plan Peisey)

Hopefully another trip in early March.

You know it makes sense.

Just booked Tignes for 5 December. Already going Feb and March. Husband has always said 3 ski holidays a season is obsessive and refused to go but I caught him in a weak moment NehNeh

Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:

Argentiere ,Megeve and Avoriaz in January.
Kicking Horse,Big White, Silver Star, Apex, Mount Baldy, Red Mountain,Whitewater and Castle Mountain in Feb/March.
Riksgransen in April/May.
And hopefully a good few days out on the Scottish slopes this Winter as well.

A snowHead

Trysil in Norway for a week in February, Courchevel for a week in March and as many days and weekends as I can fit in to the local resorts in between snowHead

A snowHead

22nd-29th Jan 2005, Colfosco, Dolomites. With mom, uncles, cousin, sons and friends...
Anyone around there , just knock at the hotel, supper time.

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