 Poster: A snowHead
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Where is the best small mountain resort with the best terrain in the Alps?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Resort X
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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We've had one of these threads before. I might even have started it. It descended into everyone with a vested interest mentioning their pet resorts, with the only requirement seeming to be 'smaller and less well known than the top 3 largest and best known'.
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Resort X was played out about 10 years ago, all the hipsters are now onto Resort Z.
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Doesn't Phil Collins play drums there?
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Woosh, it's this one on the link below.......
Damn! Must have lost it!
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Woosh, it's in Austria
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La Grave is hardly "unknown", surely.
Not big amongst piste skiers as there are no pistes, but very well known amongst anyone remotely interested in off piste, and probably a great many people who aren't.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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ENGLEBERT HANDERMATT.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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La Grave is hardly "unknown", surely.
Not big amongst piste skiers as there are no pistes, but very well known amongst anyone remotely interested in off piste, and probably a great many people who aren't. |
People know of it, sure. And lots of people talk about it. Not many ski there (compared to resorts that are not "unknown").
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Another vote for Resort Z
Resort A in the next valley over is pretty good too if you don't mind button lifts 
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You know it makes sense.
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sah, Engelberg and Andermatt are pretty fully scandified if you ask me 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Totally agree with Engelberg and Andermatt. Val d'anniviers is also pretty good. What surprised me last season was Montgenevre. Awesome powder possibilities with just a little hiking needed.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Arno wrote: |
| sah, Engelberg and Andermatt are pretty fully scandified if you ask me |
Yeah, they are. Totally. And if you live in the area they are hardly unknown either. But when someone asks here for info on "unknown" I kind if interpret that to mean ones that Brits don't go to much. When I skied in Eberg I didn't meet any other Brits, just Scandies, Swiss and a lot of French folks.
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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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Riksgransen.
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| sah wrote: |
| bobmcstuff wrote: |
La Grave is hardly "unknown", surely.
Not big amongst piste skiers as there are no pistes, but very well known amongst anyone remotely interested in off piste, and probably a great many people who aren't. |
People know of it, sure. And lots of people talk about it. Not many ski there (compared to resorts that are not "unknown"). |
Yes, but this thread is about "unknown" resorts, i.e., not places that are very famous.
If you decide to define "unknown" as places that lots of people know about but few ski then that's basically anywhere not in Europe for most Brit skiers... And is a radical redefinition of the word "unknown"...
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Leysin, CH
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Simply rename the thread 'resorts that are not the 3 Valleys or that one in Switzerland where the royals used to go, Cloisters or something isn't it?'.
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Kvamskogen, Norway. 
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second Leysin ...
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I do not know if it counts as unknown, but Sainte Foy has short queues and great terrain.
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| Mr Piehole wrote: |
| ENGLEBERT HANDERMATT. |
I hope he's better at skiing than singing.
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+1 for Ste Foy
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Ste Foy is reasonably well known on here, but IME poorly known elsewhere (mainly by my real life skiing friends, which I do have - honest  )
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agreed Bob........
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Sefaus, Fiss and Ladis - miles of good terrain, but barely touched by the Brits unless you self-drive.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Yad Moss.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Had a damn good day at the Zwolferhorn. Small mountain, everything classed as 'ski routes' so they don't have to piste it. Only skied the marked routes, tbh have no idea how much (if any) more potential there is, but a lot of fun.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Dizin, and Shemshak, Iran.
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| kitenski wrote: |
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£45 full season lift pass.......... 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| skimastaaah wrote: |
| Dizin, and Shemshak, Iran. |
That'd be Iran linked to Davos then
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Serfaus is pretty well known on here and was even in Crystal's brochure for a few years
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Black Forest.
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Its called Asper in Switzerland..fact !
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Distinct lack of UK tour ops going to Laax. Huge terrain, something for everyone and yet the UK ski market hasn't found it
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Chamrousse? Kuhtai?
Or cross the pond and try Jay Peak on the East Coast (Yeah I know its not the Alps!!!!!!!)
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