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Hello,
I’m planning a trip with a snowboarder who (understandably) can’t stand drag lifts or loads of flat sections. I’m looking at a few places, but was wondering if anyone had been to serre chevalier recently and could comment on either of those aspects, please? I’ve read that it did have quite aging lifts with quite a few drag lifts, but that these were being replaced with chair lifts (not sure how far they’ve got).
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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As a snowboarder, that's not really understandable. Novices are taught to ride lifts even indoors in the UK! Flat sections just require the rider to look ahead. Which you need to do to pick your line anyway.
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We went in 2023 and I can't say that I noticed either, but we're decent boarders and so drag lifts and flats aren't that much of an issue. Both are overcome fairly easily by the correct technique, as @phil_w, says, so is your friend a beginner?
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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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Ive been snowboarding for a very long time and there are some drag lifts I will definitely avoid - the col de forcle in La Plagne for example as its 1.4km long..... a short drag no issues, but they are a ball ache when they are long. I also avoid runs with flats, some are almost impossible to ride through regardless of how experienced you are or how you set up for them. 
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Thanks all.
@phil_w,
@porkpiefox, they’ve been many a time, but they are more on the cautious side.
@ukoldschool, got it, from the what they’ve said it’s not impossible but best avoided to have a better time of it!
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@PebbleSea, OK no probs. From memory the drags aren't link lifts, they're more like lifts to get you to particular runs, so you could easily avoid them, or just only take them in order to have a go on those pistes on occasion. If they've been multiple times, you'd hope they'd be happy to take the occasional one, just to have a go at a particular piste, for example. As I say, I can't think that they're used as links much though (if at all).
As for flats, I genuinely can't really remember any, but we'd probably be quite comfortable noticing a run is going a bit "flatter" and have ridden through it anyway, as we're all pretty used to it.
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@porkpiefox, that’s really helpful- thank you!
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We went a few years ago and I don't remember any 'unridable' flats (though the last section of route frejus into Villeneuve was a bit of a slog) and while there are a few drags scattered around it's a big area so you won't run out of interest if you avoid them.
We're actually booked in to go back second week in Jan.
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