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Lessons.
From having spent a few days in Scheffau with a near beginner, I think the only way to progress from nursery slopes to blue slopes is to have lessons to increase confidence.
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| queen bodecia wrote: |
Lessons.
From having spent a few days in Scheffau with a near beginner, I think the only way to progress from nursery slopes to blue slopes is to have lessons to increase confidence. |
+1 Private or group lessons!!!
Also you have just learnt a harsh lesson about slope grading. A blue run on a piste map is technically classed as easy. But not always the case in reality. I have skied several blue runs in Austria/Italy which are basically pistes on a track or road, no more than 6 to 7 metres wide, with several steep sections and the snow mostly scraped to the side. This may present no issues to a decent intermediate skier, but it will certainly pose problems to a good proportion of people progressing from nursery slopes who try and tackle the slope using the snowplough method.
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In Scheffau the most open runs are at the top. Anything back to the village is down in the trees and quite narrow. I suggest you go up to Brandstandl and try some of the wider slopes around the summit, ski down to a chairlift you can see and back up to the top (try 64 or 65 blues). There is no shame in downloading on the gondola at the end of the day, the village runs are narrower and high traffic so they are cut up and busy. 61 is not bad but does get a bit narrow in places
+1 for lessons
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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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Another vote for lessons.
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Another vote for lessons. I'd recommend lessons until you're confident you can "get down" anything the mountain throws at you. This doesn't need to be elegant, just functional. For e.g. many of us still break out the side slipping on steeper icy bits.
When you say "all have done their lessons before", do you mean on an indoor slope? If so, whilst it gives a good starting point, it's not a substitute for lessons on the mountain. It just let's you start the week in the group that already know how to put their skis on. As an absolute minimum I'd suggest all the group have lessons to get them up to the standard of competently doing parallel turns on blue runs. Otherwise they'll scare themselves and cause mayhem for other skiers by being on runs they're not able to ski safely.
Sorry to emphasise the lessons issue, but it'll lead to far more enjoyment for all involved.
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| sugarmoma666 wrote: |
Another vote for lessons. I'd recommend lessons until you're confident you can "get down" anything the mountain throws at you. This doesn't need to be elegant, just functional. For e.g. many of us still break out the side slipping on steeper icy bits.
When you say "all have done their lessons before", do you mean on an indoor slope? If so, whilst it gives a good starting point, it's not a substitute for lessons on the mountain. It just let's you start the week in the group that already know how to put their skis on. As an absolute minimum I'd suggest all the group have lessons to get them up to the standard of competently doing parallel turns on blue runs. Otherwise they'll scare themselves and cause mayhem for other skiers by being on runs they're not able to ski safely.
Sorry to emphasise the lessons issue, but it'll lead to far more enjoyment for all involved. |
A good instructor with knowledge of the area will also have the progression of slopes sussed, having been through it many times with clients. Blues can vary a lot, e.g. I wouldn't like to have taken new or nervous skiers down the lower part of the blue into La Tania at Christmas.
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It's years since I went to Ellmau, but it was our first ski trip. We found a lot of the nice long runs to be rather busy and quite a challenge, though got easier as our skill improved. Honestly, as relative newbies- the most fun we had was over the "Going" part. Was always quiet, wide, and the runs were fun as a newbie (a little unchallenging for me now I dare say!).
I seem to recall we tended to take the funicular down from the main central mountain in the afternoons rather than battle down with everyone else in Ellmau though. The "home run" is nice to do when it's empty if you go early in the day.
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Ellmau itself as I recall is mainly nursery slopes for lessons with a blue and a red run as well. Going is the next area for your progression and then the main area is over at the Hartkaiserbarn with access to lots of nice blues over there. We went last Feb half term and if we went again we would head earlier in the week to the Hartkaiserbarn than we did.
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