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Hi all,
I have a provisional choice of positions in Meribel or Morzine for the upcoming season. My passion is for off-piste accessible through short hikes, and I'm doing my best to get into splitboarding, including overnight stops in refuges. Which resort would you recommend based on these criteria?
Thanks for your thoughts!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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jiagedaping, I don't know the 3Vs at all but Morzine (PDS rather) is certainly full of little cheeky descents.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Morzine has reasonably easy access to much bigger stuff locally and Chamonix is but an hour away.
A lot of the side country above Meribel is glaciated and not really good if you are just starting out.
Get a copy of http://www.volopress.net/volo/spip.php?article457 there is plenty to go at.
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im going to PDS this coming season for 2.5 weeks and will be looking to be doing a bit of skinning, boot packing and off piste,never done any of it before, so im watching this thread with interest
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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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Idris, I think it would be fairer to say that some of the sidecountry is glaciated - perhaps even, a little.
The 3V offers a vast array of off-piste options and Pralognan (Gateway to the Vanoise) is only just up the road.
There's a great intro to off-piste in the 3V here:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dennis.summerbell/skiing/3vintro.html
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Morzine has reasonably easy access to much bigger stuff locally and Chamonix is but an hour away.
A lot of the side country above Meribel is glaciated and not really good if you are just starting out.
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And of course Chamonix doesn;t have any glaciated terrain at all 
to the OP - either will be great. Plenty to go at in the 3V that doesn't involve glaciers...
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Resort has been chosen for me (provisionally), I'll be in Meribel this season. I'd have been pleased with either, I did my 1st season in Meribel back in 05/06 and was just across the way from PDS last season, so I do know it a little.
Below is a google earth screenshot from the 3vs:
All of those little bed icons come up in the description as refuges - am I right in saying that these generally form part of touring routes? Is the best way to get into this type of terrain a stop at the local guides bureau? I've never used them before - always gone with instructors.
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Yep, those in the mountains are refuges.
Vast amounts of relevant info here:
http://www.refuges.info/nav/massif/9/vanoise/
Also, get hold of the IGN 1:25k maps and look for the blue dashed lines - those are recognised ski routes.
If you've never done it before then I'd suggest finding a guide. Try offpisteskiing or
Le bureau des Guides (Pralognan la Vanoise):
Tel. +33-(0)4-79087121
www.guides-pralognan.com
Bureau des Guides et Accompagnateurs:
Tel. +33-(0)4-79203248
www.guides-savoie.com
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