 Poster: A snowHead
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So we're off to Avoriaz in a couple of weeks and whilst I'm a intermediate snowboarder I'm more interested spending time on runs that'll get my wife hooked on skiing once and for all. Call it an investment in furture holidays/eventual holiday home.
She's done 2.5 weeks, but is a timid skier (having proven she breaks easily on her first skiing holiday and our first snowboarding holiday, its a wonder she ever went back at all) so still prefers long greens and easy blues, generally sending me out first to make sure there are no nasty surprises. We might just about manage the odd easy red, but it'll take a few days before she finds her feet again.
Last year we were in Val d'isere and they had a perfect group of long greens between Val and Tignes and group of easy blues in the bowl between Solaise and the Glacier. Anything like this in PdS, the piste map's so vast it's hard to tell. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Try the runs down Linderets. Easy runs, trees, picturesque, lots of restuarants. All the right ingredients, she will love it. 
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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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I learnt to ski (still learning... will be for a long time) in Morzine and made it over to Avoriaz, I have also been to Espace Killy. I think its farely well documented that the EK greens and blues are generally a little harder than similarly graded runs in other domains, I certainly thought the greens in EK were equivalent to many of the blues I had skied in PDS. I would imagine she will have a great time!
There are loads of long meandering runs in Avoriaz (and Morzine / Les Gets) to build confidence! Only difference from memory is that they dont have as many motorway wide pistes!
I'm sure someone will recommend individual runs shortly... I'm heading out to La Chapelle on Sunday for a week so if I come accross something appropriate I'll put it up on here!
Have a great time!
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ishay, do you mean the "ski-tranquille" areas in Tignes/Val?
I've been to PdS/Avoriaz a couple of times and don't recall seeing any similar areas ... but don't worry, there are a vast array of cruisey blues, so you'll have absolutely no problems.
In fact you'll be able to get around most of the area without getting stuck on anything too tricky - it seems a great place for high mileage easy skiing.
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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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Sorry, forgot to say that I'd also agree with Bambi on ice that Tignes/Val seemed to be a 'steeper' resort.
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abj, Yes I did mean ski-tranquille; forgot that's what it was marked as on the piste map
She won't need anything quite so deliberately for beginners, although as BergenBergen, says those greens seemed remarkably like blue runs to me anyway, especially up the top coming off the lift.
Groups of blues that can be repeated a few times without getting totally bored is the name of the game I think.
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