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Hello,
I'm a beginner who has just come back from a week of skiing in Alpes D'huez. Absolutely loved it and am planning the next trip for this season. I'm good with parallel turns now on greens and now want to progress onto blues.
I'm choosing between Valmorel or Val Thorens.
1) I understand that Val Thorens is pretty snow sure but cant find much info for Valmorel. What is snow situation for Valmorel in early March?
2) Which will be better for me in terms of blue runs?
Thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Early March is usually good anywhere. I would say Valmorel, you can ski almost the whole resort on blue and green runs and you wouldn't feel you had missed much. In Val Thorens a lot of the area needs you to be able to manage reds.
And welcome to the forum.
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@j b, +1 for Valmorel, lots of ideal terrain to practice on.
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Another vote for Valmorel. Really nice village and you should be able to ski pretty much everywhere, scenery is stunning also.
Save Val D'Isere for once you are feeling confident on any piste.
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| j b wrote: |
Early March is usually good anywhere. I would say Valmorel, you can ski almost the whole resort on blue and green runs and you wouldn't feel you had missed much. In Val Thorens a lot of the area needs you to be able to manage reds.
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I disagree. Val T has lots of brilliant blue runs and you could cover the whole 3 Valleys without skiing a red run.
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A blue run skier in early March - I can't think of anywhere better than Valmorel.
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Thanks everyone. Valmorel it is  ️
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The problem with Val T as a beginner, is that you're paying for some of the best skiing in the world when you can probably only enjoy 20% of the slopes. Valmorel is ideal for new skiers.
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To note - early March is still French school holidays. I think the 12th is the first off peak week and an ideal time to go.
As with others I would look at smaller ski areas for better value for money at this stage.
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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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La Rosiere also ideal for beginners and progressors.
You don't pay for a humongous ski area like 3V, Val d'Isere, La Plagne, Les Arts etc.
Extremely snowsure due tot location, always in the top-10 of France. Extremely sunny. Wide open broad boulevard like slopes. Ski-in-ski-out. Nice village without highrise eyesores.
Although Valmorel is nice too, I would prefer La Rosiere in tour Palace.
Last edited by And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports. on Thu 10-02-22 8:25; edited 1 time in total
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| susie h wrote: |
| Thanks everyone. Valmorel it is ️ |
Well done, you will enjoy it. It's a lovely little resort. There is a great feeling of accomplishment for an early stage skier of making the trip over to St Francois Longchamps, and I am sure an instructor will be able to improve your technique and get you progressing to red runs.
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You know it makes sense.
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Valmorel was where I took my kids for their first few trips - it is a lovely place, with heaps of charm.
Been to Val T too a few times and skied it twice last week while staying in La Tania.
It is true that there are good accessible blues all across the 3V - but i would save VT and the 3V for the future, what it has in pure brilliant ski volume it loses cos of its resort size, bleakness in bad weather, and it can be a bit of a toilet if you pick the wrong week with the wrong attendees, and I like a clubby audience at times.
With Valmorel, I think you are making a great choice - the above comment about the trip to St Francois is dead on, and it's charm for your stage of your ski journey is def a big catch
I like La Rosiere too for the same reason
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Valmorel was where I took my kids for their first few trips - it is a lovely place, with heaps of charm.
Been to Val T too a few times and skied it twice last week while staying in La Tania.
It is true that there are good accessible blues all across the 3V - but i would save VT and the 3V for the future, what it has in pure brilliant ski volume it loses cos of its resort size, bleakness in bad weather, and it can be a bit of a toilet if you pick the wrong week with the wrong attendees, and I like a clubby audience at times.
With Valmorel, I think you are making a great choice - the above comment about the trip to St Francois is dead on, not quite the charm but some nice pistes in, and VMs charm for your stage of your ski journey is def a big catch, as is the promise of a great lunch at a fair price.
I like La Rosiere too for the same reason. Put that on your bucket list for the future and enjoy skiing in France and Italy on the same trip
Thinking about it I might plan a 4 day drive down to Valmorel in March too as it is too long since I have been back
oooh and ps - even the ESF are decent in Valmorel
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