 Poster: A snowHead
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And PS I haven't been on the forum for a while since I've just got back from a trip to southern France which included a day's skiing in Ax-lesThermes - we picked the one day with low cloud so had to ski in a limited area but the snow was good and the slopes quiet.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| saikee wrote: |
| The record I kept shows that I have visited some 42, 32, 18 and 15 French, Austrian, Italian and Swiss resorts respectively. |
I'd hazard a guess that although you've visited a lot of resorts you got to know very few of them properly. I ski mainly in the Tarentaise and the Trois Vallees and although I ski 50+ days per season I feel I'm hardly beginning to get to know them. Getting to a resort and spending two or three days cruising the main pistes is the least satisfactory way to ski, IMO.
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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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foggy, one thig to perhaps try is stick to what you know for your main week around the big french resorts, BUT, make the time, save the money and perhaps take a gamble once a year for a long weekend somewhere completely differrent. Austria would prob work out cheaper for that and you would get a real taste rather than ppl like us ramming our fave resorts down your throat 
That way, you do not compromise on your main week skiing, and you have a goal to try somewhere else for a few days at less cost and holiday time used if that is the issue.
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Getting to a resort and spending two or three days cruising the main pistes is the least satisfactory way to ski, IMO.
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rob@rar, i agree totally.
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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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rob@rar, Libertine,
As I mentioned earlier in my post I got to know Chamonix and the neighbouring resorts like the back of my hand after going there repeatedly for 8 years.
I know some people never get bored by going back to the same place every year to ski especially they own properties at the resort. Between seeing more different resorts and keep going back to the same one I tried both. I am still curious of trying out different resorts, even in the Alps. This January I am trying for the first time Engelberg, Films/Laax, Davos/Kloster and St Moritz.
I still have to visit USA, Spain, Argentina/Chile, Austrailia/NZ........
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| saikee wrote: |
| I am still curious of trying out different resorts, even in the Alps. This January I am trying for the first time Engelberg, Films/Laax, Davos/Kloster and St Moritz. |
But how much of them do you actually try? I've spent the morning cruising around the pistes with my girlfriend, and while doing so I've spotted dozens of new off-piste lines I'd not really seen before nevermind skied. Those six Swiss resorts between them will cover a huge amount of terrain that you couldn't hope to get to know in a season let alone a week or two. The best bits of resorts are the stuff that infrequrnt visitors never get to find unless they are pay for a mountain guide to take them around.
I can see there's a lot of sense in trying out resorts in North America v. South America v. Europe because no doubt they offer very different experiences. But I simply can't see the sense in a cursory visit to dozens of different resorts if all you do is miss the best bits
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