 Poster: A snowHead
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Ok im pretty new to skiing, my question is where can you ski at what part of the year.
I would like to ski sometime during the summer but dont fancy the long flights to america.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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If you don't fancy a flight to S America then you're unlikely to want to head to New Zealand either. Various glaciers around Europe offer summer skiing (e.g. Tignes) though the terrain on offer is pretty limited and unlikely to keep you interested for more than a couple of days.
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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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Put up with the flight and hit SA. The pain of the flight is quickly forgotten by the joys of skiing in the summer.
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as far as i know skiing in the summer is not idea
either a long expensive flight to a different part of the world
of skiing on a glacier was high up on a mountain where its really cold and as its been said the runs are limited
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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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artweek, the most highly-rated glacier skiing in Europe is probably Hintertux. The Stubaigletscher is also great. Kaprun (Kitzsteinhorn) is not bad. The Tignes glacier has a decent pitch, as has the one at Les Deux Alpes. Saas Fee is good. Zermatt's glacier is flatter, unless you catch the months when the Furggsattel high-speed quad chair operates. I've skied all the aforementioned.
Summer skiing months vary, so check.
Zermatt is great in summer, for a combination of mountainbiking served by cablecars and the mountain railway, combined with some skiing. Summer skiing is generally a lot more boring than skiing in winter - the runs are short and quite gentle. It costs as much as skiing in winter, so the value isn't there. You only get about 3-4 hours skiing in high summer per day, because lifts shut when the snow gets too wet and heavy.
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artweek,
You can go to Argentina or Chile - but then you are skiing in Winter not Summer, it just happens to be somebody elses Winter not yours 
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