 Poster: A snowHead
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Almost a month has passed but I thought I would post some pictures from our trip Feb 5-12. We skied every significant lift at Wengen and First...everything we could at Murren. The Schiltorn Cable Car was broken at that point so we got to do the helicopter thing for 45 chf (see photos)...what fun! This was our second trip to Wengen and the Alpenrose. Everyone kept asking us why we would come from Boston to Wengen when we could ski the Rockies in the US? Answer is simple...Wengen is so nice and even with the weak dollar it costs less than a comparable stay in Colorado. Although the skiing itself can't really compare to many spots in the US West like Vail...for us its all about the atmosphere and besides my husband is a train freak. Can't say enough good things about the Alpenrose! We will surely be back!
Just got 8 inches in Boston and it is snowing up North in New England. We plan a day trip next weekend to New Hampshire, probably Killington in Vermont the following weekend, and a long weekend in Aspen in April if their snow holds, which considering what they have now, it should!
Someone needs to clue me in on how to paste pix into a message here. So in the meantime, I have done the clumsy thing of giving the Shutterfly address for our family mailing. Paste it into your browser and just click Slide show and advance to view the photos big and fast. Thanks to David Orf for introducing me to this group!
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/share/view?i=EehNW7lszcOKA&open=1&sm=1&sl=0
From a young at heart middle aged skier in Cambridge Massachusetts (which is a blue state, meaning we did not vote for George Bush)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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kathyborn, nice pics 
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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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Nice pics.
Could you explain what you mean by this:
" Although the skiing itself can't really compare to many spots in the US West like Vail..."
Having skiied in Vail and agree it is great skiing, and the back bowls are great fun, but you can get access to bigger verticals and many more lifts in Europe, eg Trois Vallees, Espace Killy etc.
Just wondered what doesn't compare to Vail?
regards,
greg
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Quote: Just wondered what doesn't compare to Vail?
It was Wengen/Jungfrau I was comparing to Vail...not Trois Vallees where I have not been. I would take the skiing (no ice, no crust, ever) at Vail any day, but the overall experience at Wengen (trains, funiculars, cable cars, rosti, raclette, apple fritters, even the easily forgetable Swiss wine) makes for a far more relaxing and interesting vacation for this traveller.
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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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kathyborn, you can't have had any of the nice Swiss wine, some of it is very good indeed.
So your conclusion then is that those who want to do nothing but cruise powder should go to Vail, but those who want to go skiing for the experience should try the Jungfrau Region ?
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Manda, there are over 200km of pistes in the area, that's hardly small 
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So your conclusion then is that those who want to do nothing but cruise powder should go to Vail, but those who want to go skiing for the experience should try the Jungfrau Region ?
My conclusion is that you should do both...and as often as you can!
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D G Orf, ooo, that's good news!!! Travel guides normally give the impression that Grindelwald/Wengen's small-scale.
easiski, are you saying you don't love queuing with hordes of Brits/French/Russians, and the feeling that you're being herded around the mountain????
kathyborn, I'm recently become keen on the idea of a ski trip in Colorado - will be interesting to experience the difference!
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