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Shortly off for my first winter Dollies trip 
Usually ski/board in Austria, Scotland or Lapland.
Looking at the piste map for the Canazei & Val di Fassa area (main base) I suddenly note that they're pretty much all red or black runs (never mind possibly being icy, from what I'm reading on the snow conditions threads, on & off), very few blues.
Bit worried that my boarding skills might not be up to all of them as yet... So anyone able to give me any comparison ideas of how the Italians grade compared to what I'm used to?
Cheers.
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If you've skied in Scotland then you'll be fine. Its fantastic there. Theres only one run I've done in the whole Dolomites area that I didn't enjoy and it was a late afternoon packed mogulfest, too many people trying to get down.
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In my experience, Italian blacks are almost always easier than Austrian, and reds are either easier or similar. Including the Canazei area and the Sella Ronda in general.
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It's all about conditions.
Most head off to he Sella Ronda so the slopes are usually quiet and well groomed
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@Grizzler,
Just back from the dolomites, though I was staying in Val Gardena not VdF I have stayed there before.
Pretty much what the others have said above. If you can board in Scotland you are likely to find much of the dollies reasonably straightforward.
There are a few things to be wary of though, the pistes are usually excellently prepared but many of them get very heavily used and over the course of the day can become very polished with mounds of soft snow at the edge or lumped into moguls. Combine this with high season and the runs that are necessary to get between valleys can be pretty unpleasant as the day progresses with busy sometimes inadequately controlled skiers. In the VdF watch out particularly for the runs down to Pian Frataces as the day progresses.
The most skied runs are the ones for the Sella Ronda in both directions , these are marked either orange or green on the sella piste map and these will be generally busy and get polished as the day progresses. Skiing the slopes bon either side above Pozza will generally be quieter and the gradings are not tough though the black down to Alba is correctly graded , on the other side to Meida the black is often a quieter option than the red and if you area boarder does not involve a long flat bit at the end and is a pretty reddish black.
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Thanks everyone. That sounds reassuring. I'll have the skis as well, but have just had some bad experiences last season with 'nice' reds which were, to my brain at least, utterly terrifying and should in part have been graded well the other side of deepest midnight (to which a local instructor, subsequently hired to coax me successfully down one, concurred). On a board, I actually don't mind lumpy, as long as it's soft 
Hopefully will stay off the busiest runs. Not aiming to bag every one, nor the SR in entirety. Just want a relaxing safe holiday to improve my technique and confidence again.
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If you get around a bit, the area above around st Christina is wonderful.
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@Grizzler, I'm recently back from my first visit to Flaine. I would say that some bits of their Blue's would be graded a Red in Italy
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| albob wrote: |
| @Grizzler, I'm recently back from my first visit to Flaine. I would say that some bits of their Blue's would be graded a Red in Italy |
A personal opinion is that resort gradings vary as much or more within a country as between countries. Having said that France with it's extra green grading means that on average they don't have the really easy blues and their harder ones would maybe be red in some resorts.
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Grizzler, I wouldn’t worry. It’s all a lot easier than anything at Yad Moss. Have fun
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I would agree in variation
A red in arabba is a black in Alta Badia and a red in seiser alm would be a blue in arabba
Some of the reds in selva are horrid imo but others are like cruisy blues. They are all doable some are fun others are not!!
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Anyone know a resort full of cruisey greens? After my performance today, it’s what I need!!
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You know it makes sense.
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| bambionskiis wrote: |
| Anyone know a resort full of cruisey greens? After my performance today, it’s what I need!! |
France has cruisey greens other EUro countries don't use green . In the dollies Alpe de suisi above Ortisei has a lot of very gentle green equivalents as does the Alta Badia, stick to the blues in either place and you won't get too many nasty shocks.
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That’s good to know Tbar; thanks for the tip. I’ll bear that in mind for next time.
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