 Poster: A snowHead
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So what do you fellow snow heads think the best ski resort is?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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what... apart from Glencoe 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Wherever I am at the time, with lots of snow 
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We talking scotland? Im talking globally
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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billo89, I think so is shoogly 
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Avanodrama in the Elbonian Alps is my favorite.
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Whistler
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......open goal?
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Any of them right at this moment in time!! 
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St Anton
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Tamworth Snowdome would do me such is my boredom at work right now!!
Only been to three but for the terrain, Val D'Isere was amazing. Les Gets was prety good though.
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2nd vote for Glencoe. My favourite however is Kicking Horse Mountain Resort.
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There's an awful lot of BS written about ski resorts - often by people who don't have to hand over hard-earned cash to try them out. To begin with snow quality and depth varies from place to place and from time to time. It isn't as predictable as people say so a patch of snow at a particular gradient is the same everywhere between Aspen and Zurs. You're stuck with the conditions you find so it'll either be fantastic or average but either way better than being sat at a computer. So, yes, Glencoe is as good as anywhere and going to the so-called "best" may not be as good - I got very wet both times I went to Whistler, froze solid in Vail and treated like a cash cow peasant in Courchevel. Also, how many runs can you ski at once? Personally I can only manage one so I'm dead happy in a small friendly area with few people and few lifts, not a mega rip-off resort that people feel obliged to call the "best" just because of all the superlatives in the resort's marketing blurb.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| I'm dead happy in a small friendly area with few people and few lifts, not a mega rip-off resort that people feel obliged to call the "best" just because of all the superlatives in the resort's marketing blurb. |
what he said 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| awksquawk wrote: |
| Any of them right at this moment in time!! |
With you there!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Bode Swiller, agreed. I only liked Val because of the great runs that were deeserted. The fact that everything was so bloody expensive was the downer, but paying seven or eight quid for a beer is something I'm learning to live despite the Yorkshireman inside me saying i could have a night down't pit, a bowl of tripe and still have change for a greyhound a'tend a'day! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Bode Swiller,
Good post. One of the best trips I ever had was to Soll (hardly up there in the experts top 10). The conditions were suberb and the craic was great. Equally I had a crap week in Aple D'Huez, 2 days of soild rain, 3 days of snow, if the sun had shone I would have had a great week.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Flaine, the architecture gets some stick but we've never experienced lift queu's even in school holidays and the main bowl is an intermediates paradise !
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| johnboy wrote: |
Bode Swiller,
Good post. One of the best trips I ever had was to Soll (hardly up there in the experts top 10). The conditions were suberb and the craic was great. Equally I had a crap week in Aple D'Huez, 2 days of soild rain, 3 days of snow, if the sun had shone I would have had a great week. |
Thats a pity about Alpe D'Huez. Im in love with the place. Was it just the weather that wrecked it or was the whole place just not to your liking?
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So far for me it's Val d'Isere. Had a great time there last year and will, I hope, have another great time there next month. I've been to Three Valleys a few times, and echo Bode's sentiment re. my job as a cash cow.
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Bode Swiller, spot on gnarly dude.
Last year I had 3 holidays in 3 hugely different resorts.
Each holiday and resort was magnificent in its own way. All that differed was the price.
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nothing beats Tignes for your first off-piste experience
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Tignes / Val D'isere (Val's town is best and better links to both mountains)
Verbier really good
St Anton
Alpe D'huez
Whistler - disappointed by samey samey tree lined runs
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I've always enjoyed my trips to soll, great apres and great people. Have had awesome skiing in alpe d'huez - huge area and sun nearly every day when i was there!!
Best snow i've experienced - Killington, even though i was only about 10 yrs old...
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I've skied in 3 places so far and had most fun in Val Thorens.
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Wherever you happen to be. A bad day on the mountains is better that a good day in the office.
Having skied probably 50 resorts over the past 20 years (I've lost count), there are very few which I was not perfectly happy to be skiing in at the time. That said, there are certain resorts where the snow seems more consistent - but maybe that just because I've been to those places more often than some others.
The first question to ask yourself is "What do I mean by the *best* ski resort?"
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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The first question to ask yourself is "What do I mean by the *best* ski resort?"
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For me its reliably good snow (shocking!), a resort with plenty of eating options and decent nightlife with a relative nice mix of locals and tourists. Accomodation with easy lift access and a nice on site bar that has happy hour from 4-6pm.
Ideally, for the slopes i would like 10% green, 25% blue, 50% red and 15% black. About 200km of pistes. I like a small bit of off piste area that is not impossible. Also i want trees..... lots of trees!
Any ideas?? 
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| innerspaceservices wrote: |
| nothing beats Tignes for your first off-piste experience |
Too true, too true. Amazing place for that. Le Fornet in Val is someting special also - going through the trees is just magic
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You know it makes sense.
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nothing beats Tignes for your first off-piste experience
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Unless your first off-piste experience is somewhere with better snow conditions, better weather, better company, etc, etc
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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You can't have a bad skiing holiday as long as there's snow and no-one gets injured:)
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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.roga, Surely "best ski resort" it's so subjective and personal as to be meaningless?
Im just trying to get a reasonable ski discussion going as im guessing everybody on here loves to talk a bout skiing
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| billo89 wrote: |
.roga, Surely "best ski resort" it's so subjective and personal as to be meaningless?
Im just trying to get a reasonable ski discussion going as im guessing everybody on here loves to talk a bout skiing |
Yup and I'm adding to the discussion by saying it's meaningless and then attempting to answer it anyway ... basically 'coz I love to talk about skiing! 
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scrubyjoe, Until you got to the tree bit you could have been describing Ischgl.
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Is there a bad one?
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When I was a beginner, for the easy slopes & apres ski, Obergurgl.
On May day w/e when most other resorts are closed or soup, Tignes.
On a long w/e in March for laid back Italian ambience & uncrowded slopes, Gressoney la Trinite.
For the day it was raining at village level & only about a dozen people were on the mountain in fresh powder, Monetier (Serre Che).
And finally, because I bought an apartment there and it feels more magical each time I visit, Grimentz.
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Wot the swiller said.
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scrubyjoe,
Just the weather that spoiled it. I have no doubt A D'Huez in excellent, though I am not generally a fan of froggie land
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