 Poster: A snowHead
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| greg66 wrote: |
| JDL65 wrote: |
| I think the location of the work will be key to making the recommendation. |
is indeed key, unless the OP fancies traversing continental Europe in a planes, trains and automobiles style. |
No, it doesn’t.
The distance from one end of the Alps to the other just isn’t that big of a deal by N America standard! (It isn’t “continental Europe” by any stretch of imagination)
Moreover, because the OP has other plans on at least one end of the trip, I suspect his “5 day” skiing quite likely already excluded the travel time before and after. I know because I did the same thing way back when. You travel from your work location to the mountain, tack on a bit of touristy thing, start skiing the following day…
So the work location isn’t really all that important. Finding the best “first impression” of skiing in the Alps is top priority. When your flight home is 10 hours, it just doesn’t matter that one or two extra hour on the ground portion.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| patrick! wrote: |
If you're coming from Western Canada then surely skiing and apres ski should both come after scenery and atmosphere.
So Dolomites and Zermatt should be top of your list!
On a second trip yes, St Anton, Ischgl, Val d'Isère, and of course Trois Vallees (which are really four) or 4 Vallees (Verbier). |
Apres is part of the “atmosphere”. I’m glad my first trip to the Alps was St Anton.
I wasn’t even looking for apres. But it was quite an eye opener. I was in my early 30’s then. I quite enjoy the dancing slope side in my ski boot part! 
I thought the scenery and skiing was great too.
(Like the OP, my first trip was part of a work trip)
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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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Love how the New Yorker knows more about travelling around the Alps than thoe Europeans!
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| JDL65 wrote: |
| Love how the New Yorker knows more about travelling around the Alps than thoe Europeans! |
Quite! And is prepared to build in some self serving assumptions as gospel truths…
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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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If you have the epic pass it gives you a free 6 day lift ticket in the 3 valleys.
You just show your pass to the ticket office and they give you a 3V pass.
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| JDL65 wrote: |
| Love how the New Yorker knows more about travelling around the Alps than thoe Europeans! |
Yes! Proudly so! I’d say far better than a certain “European” who completely missed the OP’s travel plan entirely! 
| greg66 wrote: |
| Quite! And is prepared to build in some self serving assumptions as gospel truths… |
No worse than some Brit building some assumptions on how everyone must squeeze every minute of their travel time to fit in 5 days of skiing.
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@Jäger, wrote, “ I’d add Saalbach Hinterglemm into the mix for wide, cruisey pistes, on-mountain (near villages) Apres and then the town (Saalbach) for Apres, Apres, as they like to call it. For 5 days skiing, it’s be hard to beat and ticks most of the boxes, IMV.”
Unsurprisingly (since I live in Saalbach), I would second Jäger’s sage advice. Austria’s second most popular ski resort (after the Arlberg), and the fourth most visited resort in the world - no doubt for good reasons.
In late January I hosted a couple of Canadian guys, from Toronto, and they loved Saalbach - so much so that they were talking about returning next year and bringing their families with them.
It should still be okay in early March, has the extensive, cruisey skiing of the big French resorts - but with more charm, character and genuine après-ski jollity; the fun factor of St Anton - but without the high prices, congestion, and “steep, narrow, mogully runs” (as a local ski instructor once summarised St A); and pretty “Sound of Music” scenery (not on a par with the Tolkienesque grandeur of the Dolomites, but very photogenic, and at least it has lots of forested runs, a state of the art lift system, great restaurants, and an après-ski scene as good as anywhere in Austria.
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