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Hi everyone,
It's been a while since I have been here. I am planning a last-minute short solo trip for the new year week (Monday - Friday, with 3 days skiing) but this is my first time skiing solo so I could use some advice. I have skied Val D'Isere twice and 3V a few times. I am a very average skier, last year in Val I was skiing blues most of the week and the odd red. For the trip, I am looking at Val D'Isere again or Verbier but I was a bit concerned I may not be a strong enough skier for Verbier based on some of the posts I have been reading. I would love to hear people's thoughts.
Cheers
Mark
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@sparky2003752, There are better choices than Verbier for piste skiing. 3V or Val d’Isere would be obvious choices. Zermatt / Cervinia another high altitude option.
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@BobinCH, thanks for the quick reply. I had looked at Zermatt but was working out very expensive for a short trip. The only reason I was considering Verbier was because there was a good deal on and close to Geneva. I think you are right though, I may stick to the usual spots for the short trip and look at other options for late Feb.
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@sparky2003752, What do you count as "Verbier"? Maybe stay in Veysonnaz and ski there and around Thyon.
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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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| @sparky2003752, What do you count as "Verbier"? Maybe stay in Veysonnaz and ski there and around Thyon. |
Too low. There’s a heatwave at the moment
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Well, the criticism often levelled at Verbier is that unless you're an off-piste skier, the terrain is consistently intermediate. Personally, I've skied the 3 Vallées and I'd say that it's not generally any easier or harder than Verbier, on piste. Many of the main pistes in Verbier provide small 'by-pass' segment that take you past the steeper sections of the red runs: they aren't blues, just lesser reds. And as mentioned, you might consider a satellite of the Verbier hub like La Tzoumaz, whose main positive will be that it's north-facing so for a piste-only skier, the snw will be better preserved. But that would give you only about 50kms of ski area - which might not be enough for more than a couple of days, at which point you'd want to go higher up in Verbier.
I wonder if, at the moment, the north-facing thing might be a more important criteria, given the warm conditions and there may be other resorts you already know that have that profile.
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Any chance you could postpone your trip a bit, given the ghastly weather in much of the Alps, especially the French alps and nearby, at the moment? Although the highest places obviously still have some good skiing they are likely to be crowded and accommodation hard to find.
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@pam w, I'd assume accom and crowding won't be an issue from Tuesday onwards, very low season IMHO
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