 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello everyone,
I am thinking of going to Serre Chevalier in January. I have booked an apartment, but I can still cancel the reservation. I am happy with the domain selected, but I would like to know more about the difficulty of the slopes. My partner is starting with red slopes, but she prefers to avoid the "dark red" slopes. So I would appreciate if one of you could give me a list of the easiest red slopes in the domain. Are they difficult compared to the "typical" red slopes in other domains?
I am particularly interested in your opinion on the Cucumelle slope, as it is mandatory to take it going from right to left on the map. Also, it looks very nice. But is it a difficult red slope ?
Of course, I know that any red slope should be more difficult than the blue ones, but in any domain there are red slopes that are easier than others.
Thank you.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@fragoral, Vallons de Cucumelle is very wide, so there is loads of space to turn. It's a lovely piste and one of my favourites. It should be quiet in January, so no worries about crowds.
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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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@fragoral, if you go on google maps they actually have a street view for that run so you can explore it virtually now. Just bear in mind that it can be hard to get a good judge of steepness from photos that look straight up or down a run. Looking across the run is a bit easier to judge gradient from
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I found all the colour grades of slopes in SC to be pretty fair. But Echaillon down to Frejus when we were there last March was unpisted with deep moguls and blooming hard work especially the middle section. It was as hard as any black I have skied tbh and not especially enjoyable to me as a reasonable intermediate skier.
Cucumelle is super wide and a pretty nice run and long too. Without crowds it’s easy to pick your lines and traverse if the steeper bits are a problem to your partner.
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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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@fragoral, the first pitch of Cucumelles is the steepest part but as @Hells Bells says, it's very wide and the steeper part is not long. It's the piste in the background of this photo, under the Vallons lift.
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Just thinking back probably the next worst run after Echaillons was the blue, almost green by gradient in places Vallons towards Serre Ratier. It was in pretty poor shape by end of day and a lot of folks were firing down too fast hitting the rollers which were like speed humps and crashing. It was carnage at times but mainly due to behaviour than actual difficulty.
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Clot Gauthier is an entry-level red piste in the Villeneuve sector. My daughters skied it as their first red piste last year. I don't remember any really steep sections but it's it's quite a fun one to blast down.
Others to try - Bois des Coqs in Chantemerle (accessed via the Grand Serre lift then top of the Vallons blue run to skip the unpisted top section) - mostly quite an easy run but with a nice little wide steeper section at the bottom. Saludes from the top of the Prorel chair is also not too hard.
A lot of the blue runs are quite fun and intermediate friendly as well, in fact very few flat, boring runs in SC generally.
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If you are wondering what the path along the ridge is, in that photo, it is to access lots of good, but slightly more advanced off piste (including from the peak beyond the lift, which is a bit of a slog but worth it, at least once or twice, if you like that sort of thing)
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