 Poster: A snowHead
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hi all, just wondering if you guys know much about selva or canazei in italy? are they good places to learn to ski? are they uncrowded resorts on piste or would they be more of the busy bustling type of resorts you get in france? looking to go end of feb. mu main priorities are good ski school and nice gentle slopes for the wife to learn on and a big enough ski area to keep myself and 4 others occupied for the week on some nice wide reds. austria and switz look too expensive and france seems like it gets crazy busy and canada im saving for next yr so that leaves me with lovely italy. am still doing research but these two resorts read well, unless you guys think im on the wrong track
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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also val di fassa is another that springs to mind so any info on that would be great too
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grazygeorges, Selva (which is in the valley of Val Gardena) has some good nursery slopes located within walking distance of the centre. It is also on the Sella Ronda circuit which is nice circular tour which can easily be done in a day by any competent intermediate red run skier. Val Gardena is part of the South Tirol (part of Austria up till end of WW1), so as well as Italian, German is also spoken and the places have both Italian and German names eg Selva/Wolkenstein. (There is also a local third language called Ladin).
The piste map for the Val Gardena area is shown here. There are some nice runs to St Cristina and Ortisei (in particular the long red run from Seceda (which you get to from St Cristina) down to Ortisei (or St Ulrich as it's called in German). Ortisei itself is a prettier town than Selva in my opinion, and also has good nursery slopes on the Alpe di Siusa (Seiseralm). However, it's not so centally located for doing the Sella Ronda.
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| grazygeorges wrote: |
| also val di fassa is another that springs to mind so any info on that would be great too |
Canazei is one of the villages in Val di Fassa - the others being Alba, Campitello, Pozza and Moena (there are some smaller ones too, but those are the main ones).
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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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grazygeorges, Plenty of good info on the thread about the Sella Ronda I am about to shamelessly bump.
There are a few big fans of Dolomites skiing on here. The skiing is mostly intermediate, but the views are out of this world.
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grazygeorges, Dolomite fan here Selva offers much easier access to the nursery slopes and skiing in general. If you are based in Canazei ( as we were last Feb ) then you have to get the gondola up and skiing back to village level ( albeit a fair way from town still ) is not for a learner.
My personal choice for a base town would be Arabba but there are other Dolomite fans who would say this is not very suitbable for learners. But saying that the nursery slopes and lifts are very close to the town centre and for you access to the Sella Ronda, both ways, is very easy.
You are on the right track looking at the Dolomites - look at Corvara too, that is nice.
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I'd go to any of the resorts in the Sella Ronda over France. It's much cheaper, has Italian chic rather than French off-ish-ness, and the food is fantastic. It is a really huge ski area and although most are red runs there is a very challanging black down to the Arabba ski station, and good ski schools.
Having said that if your wife is a complete beginner you can't beat the ski schools in Austria.
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Selva for sure, go here for lessons http://www.ski-factory.it/eng/. The apres in the ski school bar is great. Ask for Lukas or Oz for skiing instuction, Tommy for snowboarding. Kronestube for evening drinks, Disco Dali for late night.
We did Canazei last week, it's good, but not as good as Selva.
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jason17, Welcome to snowHeads. Yet another Dolomites fan joins the board.
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grazygeorges, Selva would be better than Canazei for a mixed group of learners and intermediates as it has proper segregated nursery slopes that are next to the main circuit. Canazei has a bunny slope in the village, but the main slopes with it's unsegregated progresser area (all graded red) and the Sella Ronda links are up the gondola.
An even better bet would be Colfosco which has extensive quiet nursery slopes and progressively steeper runs up twd Passo Gardena and in the Edelweiss Valley. Also has direct access to the Sella Ronda circuit for the more experienced. You could easily meet up for lunch.
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