Bardonecchia 13/1 to 20/1 2013

A snowHead

This review will be of limited use since conditions changed so much as we were leaving! Six days of sun and hard but not icy snow as temperatures had stayed below zero since the last snow. It snowed all of the last day and the nights either side so the last day was rather different. The hard snow was atcually really easy to ski as it didn't cut up and stayed pretty much as pisted. It's a small resort without much difficult skiing so is probably a bit small and tame for most Snowheads. It does, however have pleasant tree lined runs with a variety of gradients. The Campo Smith area is much nicer than the Jafferau area and has more civilised chairs. The chairs at jafferau hit you hard, picking you up and throw you out at the top! The Campo Smith side does have some long and rather steep drags. On all except the last day, a Saturday, the pistes were exceptionally empty but some lifts were shut for no obvious reason and others closed for local club race training.
We stayed in the Ca Fiore, just over the road from the Campo Smith chair. Comfortable hotel with friendly and helpful staff, decent food and plenty of it. Boot room needs more and better racking, though. The town is small town Italy rather than resort like but we're too old to apres ski much and that suited us. Remarkably, many of the guests in the hotel were there for the nth year. We liked it but it's much too small to go back to in a hurry. We did Selva two years running but that's got the area to justify it.
So, good for quiet, unadventuous, comfortable week but not for heroics or partying. Blush

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Bardonecchia 13/1 to 20/1 2013

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