 Poster: A snowHead
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Evening all,
Am away on the mid term break with the family, and we've gone to graubunden in switzerland. We'll be skiing some better known resorts throughout the week, but today we skiied in Splugen, a small but perfectly formed resort, easily accessed from the a13 as you head towards the San bernadino pass. It's by no means a mega resort - it has just 4 installations total, 1 x 8 person gondola, a quirky 3 man chair, a decent high speed 4 man chair and an old skeul tbar. However, it makes maximum use of what it has, with those 4 installations serving up 40 kms of piste and a shed load of accessible off piste. The resort has a strongly intermediate + feel, with a big jump for beginners to take from the gentle runs at the top of the gondola to getting anywhere else. Some 25 percent of the piste km are graded black, but as always the hardest run was in fact a bottleneck red that led to one of the chairs (no 6, nervous skiiers avoid). Despite it being the busiest day of the year according to some of the locals, compared with say Avoriaz or Verbier or any big name resort, it was pretty empty, and we got a table for 5 at the very good and reasonable restaurant at the top of the gondola with no waiting or queues.
We had a small incident where a middle aged Italian and his mate were racing down the home piste, mistimed his stop and took out my daughter, no one hurt but she was pretty shook up (this is no reflection on Italy, or Italians, just meant that the row that followed was more comic than otherwise, they had no English, I have no Italian, but I digress)
Overall, as a skiing destination
Most suitable for intermediate - advanced
Excellent off piste access, largely untracked
Small queues
Cheap lift passes
Fantastic scenery (pics to follow)
So if you get a chance, check it out!
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