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Advice - Making the most of Christmas / Easter for skiing
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Dear All

I have been skiing twice, once when i was 10 and this Christmas aged 18, and really enjoy it. I'd really like to improve but cannot afford ski le gap, and only have a month at xmas and a month at easter. Does anyone know of anything that I can do in this time frame? I'm based in the UK. I don't necessarily want to learn to be an instructor, I'd just like good training preferably in a group - but not 'ski school' per se

Any help would be great!

Regards

Miles
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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mglanfield, Book a more intense course or 2. They are not anymore expensive than ski school for the same amount of training. Warrensmith and Snowworks both get a lot of praise on this forum.
Maybe if you did the course at the start of each month and then put what you learned into practice for the rest. You would have an awesome time and improve quickly. Before that try to get to a snow dome its not that exciting but it is a good place to work on basic technique. Warren smith runs courses at some of these too see his website for details.
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mglanfield, welcome to snowHeads snowHead
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mglanfield, welcome to Snowheads. snowHead Any course of that kind of duration is going to cost you a lot. I don't agree that Warren Smith or Snowworks are no more expensive "per hour" than normal ski school - but I do agree that they're very good. So would training sessions in a Snowdome be - if you can fit that into your timetable. One of the cheapest ways of getting a ski holiday, and having ski tuition as well, is with UCPA - the french organisation. http://www.ucpa.com/ They're in summer mode right now - French letting agencies and holiday organisations don't really start thinking about the winter until around July. There is hostel type accommodation and in some centres you can pay a bit extra for your own room (though a single would no doubt be very pricey). They're sociable places, always someone to have a beer with, and the price includes gear, tuition, ski pass and full board (or sometimes half board, depending on the centre). The UK organisation Action Outdoors http://www.action-outdoors.co.uk/ runs holidays at UCPA centres, with coach travel. My daugher and SiL have done three holidays with them, between them - they rate UCPA very highly but the Action Outdoors travel arrangements left something to be desired (something such as a coach that could actually struggle all the way down to the Alps without breaking down).

The ski (or board) tuition at UCPA is pretty good - my daughter is a good skier and was in their top group, and found it enjoyable and sociable. If you were an expert skier the tuition wouldn't work for you, but after a couple of weeks, it should be fine. What she DIDN'T enjoy was hideously crowded slopes and very poor snow in Flaine in February 2008 but Easter is a lot less crowded and Christmas (though not New Year) also. One problem was that poor snow cover lower down in the Grand Massif concentrated folk in the Flaine Bowl - with good snowcover throughout it would no doubt be less busy. She felt they'd improved the uplift capacity to the point where it outstripped the safe carrying capacity of the pistes.

You could probably negotiate a good price for a longer stay. It might improve your French, too. wink
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Thanks for the feedback everyone!
Pam W - This seems like a great idea, the group environment is exactly what i'd be looking for, it's always more fun when you stick with people and progress with them too. I messed up my uni year so have to retake some parts of it next year, but its only 1/4 of a years work. I'm going to be working part-full time so should be able to afford this sorta thing , which is fantastic, im sure it will be worth the work. My french is not great at the moment and i'd love to improve that too.
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