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Skiing alone

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My daughter/ski buddy has now moved abroad and my passion for skiing is still strong, has any body skiied /holidayed alone before? Or arranged to meet strangers/groups of other singles out there? I know sometime certain folks stigmatise this, and im quite shy but happy in my own company. Just dont want to give it up, the pull is too strong.
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I have skied alone twice. Once about 12 years when I had a spare week and booked myself into a Chalet in Les gets. Had a great time, other nice people staying there and the company also had a rep that did the PDS circuit a couple of days. I had only been to Courchevel at that point but had not knowledge of Les Gets at that time but found it fantastic.

Also, did a pre-Christmas trip to Tignes one year staying in one of the lower resorts. did a lot of skiing on my own but did bump into some other people and did a bit of skiing with them also. Took a powder lesson.

Would quite happily do it again this year if possible but I have doing golf and cylcing holidays alone and been quite happy.
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@MY, book on a snowHeads bash . Plenty of singles, either singletons or folk whose OH or friends don't ski. Plenty of company if you want it
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holidayloverxx wrote:
@MY, book on a snowHeads bash . Plenty of singles, either singletons or folk whose OH or friends don't ski. Plenty of company if you want it


This - as family members say to me when I go skiing with sHs - "Oh is that with your imaginary friends then?"
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Been on my own loads of times over the years. It was always good, doing what I wanted when I wanted to!
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I often go skiing on my own though only for weekends. Not sure I would want to go for a full week. I have been doing this for many years, as I found I could often fit in an odd day or two around work. In more recent times this has been trips to various Austrian resorts, generally now the Arlberg. It helps that I am comfortable in a Germanic environment. There is no real issue when skiing, unless you like having lots of chats on lifts etc, though do be more cautious about any off piste excursions or in white out conditions. More of an issue in the evenings, though there is usually a friendly bar or two to be found. Often better to find places popular with locals rather than tourist apres ski spots.
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I've done four weeks last few years - Val D, Les Menuires (2 weeks) & Zermatt. Each time staying in a hotel HB. I actually enjoyed it tremendously - get up when you want, eat when you want, ski where and when you want. For company there would always be other hotel guests you meet at dinner or in the bar before or after dinner. I'm planning to do it again Jan 2023 for two weeks.
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It's been asked before: you're not alone in being alone.

You'll get people providing ways to avoid being alone - that's not really very hard to do, if that's what you want.

Me, I like travelling alone. Snowboarding on my own is the best thing ever.
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MY wrote:
...arranged to meet strangers/groups...


Lots of strange groups on a snowHead bash.
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Lots of strange individuals too Toofy Grin

But yes, my ski buddies have moved on in life, done 5(?) bashes now and booked for the double next year.
You can ski on your own if you want, or a different group each day. Your choice Cool
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MY wrote:
im quite shy but happy in my own company.

I love the opportunity to ski with people but I'm also quite happy in my own company too so I like to be part of a large relaxed friendly group: friendly enough that you'll never want for company when it suits U, but large enough that U can slip off on your own, without the pressure of 'being missed' when U want a little quiet time.
...and it's with all that in mind that the bashes are designed the way they are.

U need never ski alone again... that is, unless U want to snowHead
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I've only travelled once on an actual "ski trip" alone. To Aspen with a group, but I didn't know or ski with any of them. It was fine. That was before we moved to ski country. Now that I live 16 minutes from the slopes, I ski alone over 90% of the time. To me, the ski partner who skis the same terrain at the same speed and takes equivalent meal and potty breaks and whose conversation you can tolerate for hours on end is rare indeed. But it's easy to ski alone if the terrain is "home".

I'll find out if I can truly ski alone in unfamiliar terrain this coming March. I'm pushing my daughter to take lessons or hire a guide so she doesn't go out of her mind skiing with me. (I might need the break as well. Confused
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I've skied a few time on solo trips - I don't mind it at all. The evening can be a bit boring / lonely. I always take a book or bother unsuspecting groups/couples often with my terrible French!
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I have no skiing buddies. So I have to go skiing alone. I won't go adventuring seriously off piste, in case of ending up somewhere unrecognisable. But always find people to chat and socialise with. Going to Austria in December, for my solo trip this year.
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I skied solo a lot in my younger years, there's a real freedom in it, fine on the mountain, less so after skiing but it forces you to be sociable - always met people in gites/hostels/chalets etc to ski with, both in Europe and USA. Easy when you're young and often leads to getting into some great routes and stashes that other better skiers you meet know of. I have also skied with friends and family and that is fun and easier in some ways.
Now I'm older I dont like it as much, my family dont want to ski, of my old ski buddies one is dead and the other lives in Japan so options are basically zero. I'm easy-osy about skiing generally now I'm into my 50s and haven't been on a ski trip since 2018 where I filled a space on a group trip advertised on here which went fine but you're always aware of being a little bit of a spare part socially I think. I do want to ski this winter however, missing it, and have booked a place in a Hofnar chalet in Morzine (after reading about it here) and after seeing a very competitive price mid January. They claim to support solo holidays and booked Jet2 flights and transfer already.
Bit clueless about how covid may negatively impact skiing again this winter and have concerns about sharing a room but the price saving was pretty big to share and also some concerns about the age spread even if there is a different chalet specifically for younger skiers/boarders with Hofnar. Some days I'm up for it thinking how much longer will I be able to ski so grab it and there should be other solos to ski with which is ideal, other days I wonder if I'm doing the right thing, bit unfit and not ideal leaving the family behind and considering cancelling.
Think I need to think more positively and put any holiday guilt aside:?
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Never found a stranger to ‘share a room and ski with’ except just the once to save some cash. Each morning he went off in one direction, and I went off in another; saw him at teatime, that’s all. Suited us both and it worked out fine. Done solo quite a few times on the tour-op/chalet basis as a single; ditto solo on a self-catered single room basis: all good; never had a bad holiday.
But the best is Bashes without a doubt. You’re only alone on a Bash if you want to be, and if you do, it’s fine too.
Get stuck in!
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I've done quite a lot of skiing on my own and there is one major downside I've found - you need a much bigger resort than when skiing in a group!

It's amazing how much faffing time adds up in a group but unless you have some REAL faffers you don't notice till you ski alone. In a group if one person has a kit faff it will trigger others and add a chilled 3 min between getting off the chair and heading down. On your own if you don't need to faff you end up getting off the chair and straight into the slide. Stopping mid-run to regroup takes a few minutes in a group but solo as soon as you stop everyone's stopped so you head off sooner. Stop for the view and in a group there's the chat and Mexican wave of everyone taking their cameras out one after the other to take the same photo. Solo that's just 30s for you to take your photo and nobody to talk the view over with. I find lunch also becomes stop/eat/realise there's nobody to talk shiz with so head back out.

I'm not saying any of this is actually bad, just you end up with a lot more sliding time so cover more miles. In a big resort like the PdS that's fine but I did a week with beginner friends in Ad'H and think I skied every run in the first day.
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This year will be my 4th Pre Season Bash, all as a solo.

And it's worked so well I've it plus 3 other bashes booked this winter.

https://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=155471#4826063&sid=a0afed562b5cbf8014f584df18e88f54
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Mjit wrote:
I've done quite a lot of skiing on my own and there is one major downside I've found - you need a much bigger resort than when skiing in a group!

It's amazing how much faffing time adds up in a group but unless you have some REAL faffers you don't notice till you ski alone. In a group if one person has a kit faff it will trigger others and add a chilled 3 min between getting off the chair and heading down. On your own if you don't need to faff you end up getting off the chair and straight into the slide. Stopping mid-run to regroup takes a few minutes in a group but solo as soon as you stop everyone's stopped so you head off sooner. Stop for the view and in a group there's the chat and Mexican wave of everyone taking their cameras out one after the other to take the same photo. Solo that's just 30s for you to take your photo and nobody to talk the view over with. I find lunch also becomes stop/eat/realise there's nobody to talk shiz with so head back out.

I'm not saying any of this is actually bad, just you end up with a lot more sliding time so cover more miles. In a big resort like the PdS that's fine but I did a week with beginner friends in Ad'H and think I skied every run in the first day.


Absolutely. Really enjoy skiing in a group but this is one of the advantages when skiing alone.
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Klammertime wrote:
I do want to ski this winter however, missing it, and have booked a place in a Hofnar chalet in Morzine (after reading about it here) and after seeing a very competitive price mid January. They claim to support solo holidays and booked Jet2 flights and transfer already.
Bit clueless about how covid may negatively impact skiing again this winter and have concerns about sharing a room but the price saving was pretty big to share and also some concerns about the age spread even if there is a different chalet specifically for younger skiers/boarders with Hofnar. Some days I'm up for it thinking how much longer will I be able to ski so grab it and there should be other solos to ski with which is ideal, other days I wonder if I'm doing the right thing, bit unfit and not ideal leaving the family behind and considering cancelling.


I'm now pushing 50 and have done loads of trips with Hofnar over the years, tacking the first week in the PdS on the back of the PSB, with a return for the off piste week at the end of Jan this year, and provided you go in with a relaxed outlook you'll be fine. Age wise I've had groups that spanned 18 to over-60 and maybe I've just been lucky but I've never seen any serious falling-outs between room-mates with snoring (free ear plug available) and ocassionally people chatting loudly post-bar (usually stopped by someone poking a head out their door, saying "Can you keep it down?" and everyone going very British and apologetic Smile ).

The general rule on a Hofnar trip is "peer pressure x3". If people are heading out (to drink/ski with a group/buy cakes/whatever) and you don't want to you'll get asked "Do you want to come?", asked "Go on, you know you want to!", then asked "Are you sure?" - and at that point if you're still a no everyone will just say "OK, see you this evening/tomorrow/etc" and leave you in peace to do your own thing. So if you don't feel like skiing/skiing with the group one day you're unlikely to put anyone's nose out of joint and be given the cold shoulder for the rest of the week.

Also far from "support solo holidays" Hofnar's basically all about solo travellers. You get the odd couple and group of 2 or 3 friends but the vast majority of guests are people flying solo like yourself either lacking skiing friends or wanting/able to ski more than their friends. That's a large part of what takes me back to Hofnar - every group's different but there's always at least a few people in to the same sort/standard of skiing/lunch as you who don't know anyone else either.
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Ironically the very reason snowHeads exists is because I was prone to skiing alone snowHead

I had one or two ski buddies but they weren't available as often as I wanted to ski.
So I was using the SCGB forum to find out whether cheap deals that I found on Ceefax were bargains or just cr@p that no-one wanted. Then of course, when I found a good one, I'd usually need someone to share the room with and the forum provided there too.

When SCGB booted us all out, I was horrified that I'd have nobody to ski with so out of desperation, well... now there's snowHeads everywhere: I can't get rid of the bggrs! Wink
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@MY,yes, gone on quite a few extra trips solo, over many years. For example, booked a flight one afternoon, flight early next morning, blagged a lift on an airport coach, arrived in the Alps solo next day, then set about finding a place to stay, on foot.

Modern comms makes it all so much easier. As someone said, never a bad one. Always met others to ski with, if mutually beneficial. Enjoyed skiing on my own too.

Never consciously bothered me, when there, about the risk of injury or illness. Equally as adventurous about where to go and which slopes to enjoy, regardless of whether in a group or solo.
Back home I've tended to think what a faff an injury could be, especially if done independently and rented a car. Have good insurance. Enjoy. snowHead
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You are never alone when you are skiing!
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Mjit wrote:

I'm now pushing 50 and have done loads of trips with Hofnar over the years, tacking the first week in the PdS on the back of the PSB, with a return for the off piste week at the end of Jan this year, and provided you go in with a relaxed outlook you'll be fine. Age wise I've had groups that spanned 18 to over-60 and maybe I've just been lucky but I've never seen any serious falling-outs between room-mates with snoring (free ear plug available) and ocassionally people chatting loudly post-bar (usually stopped by someone poking a head out their door, saying "Can you keep it down?" and everyone going very British and apologetic Smile ).

The general rule on a Hofnar trip is "peer pressure x3". If people are heading out (to drink/ski with a group/buy cakes/whatever) and you don't want to you'll get asked "Do you want to come?", asked "Go on, you know you want to!", then asked "Are you sure?" - and at that point if you're still a no everyone will just say "OK, see you this evening/tomorrow/etc" and leave you in peace to do your own thing. So if you don't feel like skiing/skiing with the group one day you're unlikely to put anyone's nose out of joint and be given the cold shoulder for the rest of the week.

Also far from "support solo holidays" Hofnar's basically all about solo travellers. You get the odd couple and group of 2 or 3 friends but the vast majority of guests are people flying solo like yourself either lacking skiing friends or wanting/able to ski more than their friends. That's a large part of what takes me back to Hofnar - every group's different but there's always at least a few people in to the same sort/standard of skiing/lunch as you who don't know anyone else either.


thanks for the heads up, reassuring to know it's been a good experience for you Madeye-Smiley
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Bigtipper wrote:
You are never alone when you are skiing!


Great, now I'm going to be paranoid that Bigtipper is stalking me around the mountain when I ski alone! Wink
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@Mjit, it's not paranoia if he really is Wink
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I really appreciate your post.. After years of skiing with family, I now find myself as a sometime solo skier plus want to get into ski touring. All this during the time of covid. I did get a couple downhill trips last 12months with friends/family but also joined (ie paid for) a ski touring 'beginners' adventure but one avalanche & one virus later, I'm now hoping to find other solo skiers, both downhill & touring (hopefully avalanche & virus free) to just get out there & ski..
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The last time I went skiing by myself, as a solo traveller (it was to a bash), I met my current wife….just sayin’ Toofy Grin
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MY wrote:
My daughter/ski buddy has now moved abroad and my passion for skiing is still strong, has any body skiied /holidayed alone before? Or arranged to meet strangers/groups of other singles out there? I know sometime certain folks stigmatise this, and im quite shy but happy in my own company. Just dont want to give it up, the pull is too strong.


Nothing wrong with going skiing solo imho, & I've done it several times (normally as an extension to a couple/group holiday), but as other posters have pointed out, there are a few drawbacks e.g. evenings can drag, safety on the mountain , sharing logistics/organising things, sociability during the day and availing of any sharing of costs on things like , lessons, guides, taxis, shuttles etc, etc.

I've heard great things about the snowheads.com bashes, but unfortunately I picked up a blooming injury on the way to the only one I've ever booked on Embarassed . I've found the Ski Club of GB great, as they organise guided skiing each day in selected resorts in nearly every country bar France, (check out their website for their list of guided resorts), and you can book a few of these days, and will likely meet other like minded ski buddies through them. This is great, as you can meet people in an organised setting on the mountain on those days, and if interested arrange to ski with them other days also yourselves. This works great and I'd highly recommend it.

Finally a few places organise groups (& guiding) from their chalets, I've done a UCPA few days which was really excellent & very cost effective (the best value way to ski I reckon), also skiers Lodge in la Grave ( expert , no fear all mountain skiers only) is fabulous, and freshtracks ( SCGB organised trips ,aimed at various levels), are also supposed to be pretty good.

So loads of options. You sound perfect for a snowheads bash, or utilising the SCGB guiding days on a solo trip of your own, both of which are great options. Go for it & enjoy!!
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I have booked my first solo ski trip as my usual skiing buddies can't go.
I have booked on a solos trip called The Ski Gathering - I am nervous but excited all at the same time.
It may be a solution for you too
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If I go this year, I will likely be going solo.

My hope was to go to Les Arc/La Plagne and ski with Friends there, via Crystal - but as prices are going through the roof and availability getting less, this may not happen.

My current plan, is to see where the snow is and get something relatively last minute - probably France or Italy - so happy to liaise and go somewhere that ties in with other solo skiers. The likely dates are 15th or 29th Jan.
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I've just booked my first solo trip. I've been skiing as an adult in a group since 1996..... they've all dropped away. I'm in my early 50s.

I found a good flight from Manc to Munich with Lufthansa for £103 return, then bags but going light as its for 4 nights. Managed to get a BnB in Soll and can't wait.

I suppose the apres will be a bit weird but after a few beers who cares!!

I've also been thinking about my approach to the mountain and skiing..... slowing down slightly and no off piste! Might look into a lesson though.

All in all, I wanted to go and all being well this time I'll be doing more..... let's face it at 53, I'd like to get as much in as possible!!
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I’ve done two solo trips previously, both for 4 nights, the first to Les Carroz in a single room in a small hotel, the second to Kaprun in a BB, the skiing side is great as there’s no waiting around for others faffing about, or deciding on which way to go. The evenings can be a bit Billy no mates, which I’m ok with I’m way beyond dancing until 2 in the morning.
I’m planning on going solo again at the end of Jan this season as my sons doing his A levels and doesn’t want to take time out.
If budget is an issue, the transfer cost can be a high %, the Table of Shared Transfers on the resorts thread is really helpful, there are some really cheap options.
I’m looking at a few options at Aosta for Pila and a couple of away days to La Thuile via Turin, Bourg St Maurice via LYS, or one of the Grand Massive resorts via GVA, all three have sub £100 transfers, €2-300 studios, Austria has some good options for train transfers, but very little sc, lots of BBs available.
From the research I’ve done, France may be the easiest, there’s lots of SC apts in most resorts that will be available giving the choice of final resort depending on snow conditions.
I do like the look of the bashes, but I’m not keen on room sharing with others atm, plus I snore!
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@Yellow Snow, I’ve just look at The Ski Gathering, looks good but it’s not cheap, I could do two separate trips for what they looking for.
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My trip was reasonable sharing a triple room (prob more of a test for those sharing with me), catered for £550, flights were £112 return inc luggage, transfer £85, 3V lift pass to add on and a bit of beer/lunch money - not far off what I'd pay in a group for a chalet.

You could do a self catered trip for less but that is proper seclusion
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@geoffknight,
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I do like the look of the bashes, but I’m not keen on room sharing with others atm, plus I snore!


I was the same, apart from the snoring (bring some good earplugs for your roomie). But I t’s not as bad as you think if you just book a twin.

You’ll meet some interesting people, some very fine skiers (assuming you want to improve) and some who are a great laugh.

Once you find a good group, you’ll absolutely luv it and keep coming back for more - trust me! snowHead
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@geoffknight, try using a nasal dilator

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2047675.m570.l1311&_nkw=nasal+dilator&_sacat=0

and see how that helps. I do not need these anymore, but I know they really work.

Sterimar isotonic nasal spray can help too. Find out what is the cause and address it!
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@AL9000, thanks I think I’ll try one in 23, I’m happy doing solo this season.
@Bigtipper, I’m a touch overweight and it’s worse after I’ve had a drink, I will look at the dilator, but I have a real aversion to nasal sprays
@Yellow Snow, I’m looking at approx 7-800, roughly flight £100, transfer £80 sc accom, £250 ski hire £80, pass £230 and £80 for breakfasts, all could go up or down a touch depending on which resort I end up I , plus whatever I will spend on lunches on mountain, probably 50/50 eat out/in in the evenings and drinks.
If I can get a deal with Sunweb on accom and pass it will be a bonus.
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