After discovering my tree skiing legs this January in Livigno, I've developed a bit of a taste for it.
Do any European resorts stand out for tree skiing? Preferably not overly difficult, but good runs through reasonably spaced trees, readily accessible and not too far from lifts/pistes.
Here's a vid of the sort of standard I am at if this would influence suggestions:
Livigno is good for me as the town is at 1800m, with around 2-300 vertical metres of trees above that, giving what seems like unusually high altitude tree stuff, and the good snow which comes with it, but I'd like to try some new places.
I'm thinking of sneaking away DIY for a few days in March, so somewhere with a shorter transfer than the 5 hours from Bergamo to Livigno would be good!
The resort doesn't need to be big, but the option to ski at reasonable altitude would be good, as I've experienced some dodgy conditions lower down at that time of year before.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
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This year nealy anywhere! I spent a large part of December in Japan renowned for it's tree skiing, then was in Soll in early Jan and it was awesome in the tree just so much snow you could go anywhere.
There's quite a few but notably IMO Serre Che and Schladming.
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Thanks for the tips. Those videos are making me feel slightly sick that I'm not there. Plenty to go on for the next trip!
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Trees + Altitude doesn't compute unfortunately!
Not as linear as that; depends on the area. Plenty of regions / mountains in the Alps have high tree lines, a lot around, 2,000m, some around 2, 200m. Depending on the region that can yield a good tree vertical. I think the point in the Alps is not a case of potential but reality; Alps are heavily farmed, not just in the valleys but also on the slopes for animal grazing and significantly at one time for timber. Agriculture was there long before the ski areas, then when the ski areas came about, the focus was generally more on the alpine. Some ski areas in the Alps have understood and used trees well, for tree lined pistes / access to glades, aesthetics etc but many haven't, or at least its not as good as it could be. And then there are a fair number of ski areas where the tree vertical is little or none, so it is as it is.
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waynos, Those tree bumps are indeed great fun. Although if you remember I also fell over a couple last season
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And Serre Chevalier also had some of the best tree skiing I have experienced.
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Yeah, Serre Chevalier not only has good tree lined pistes but nice spaced trees for glade skiing, combined with some good alpine, its a very well rounded ski area.
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