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You're taking someone to the area for the first time ( based in Morzine)
Which runs are not to be missed ? (Not black or too steep)
Please include resort and lift with your answers!!
I'm there this weekend for three days so what's good now?
Advice very much appreciated as the pds piste map is overwhelming!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The one that gets you to the bar 
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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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Any real suggestions? Genuine request.
Did I post this in the wrong place? Leaving today and would appreciate some tips.
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jadavi, my favourite runs are in the Südtirol. It's been a long time since I was last at Morzine. I do remember a nice run at Morzine, but can't get a piste map on my phone to check which run it is. Maybe later on in the day. It was a nice cruisy run through trees that the kids enjoyed before their ability level passed mine
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Morzine - the run down from the top of nyon is a really nice red. The cruisey red down into le gets from the belvedere is good also. Yeti is a nice easy black, as blacks go!
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I read that on my small phone screen as 'your favourite nuns' , but could not think if any.
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I did a couple of brilliant ones from the top of Mont Chery in the PDS last week. A red called Marmottes I think and a black called Mouflon. Did Tulipe from the top of Ranfoilly a few times too - great views from the top.
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Plaine Dranse sector heading over towards Chatel-Linga. Otherwise, the ones on Mont Chery, Marmottes, etc.
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I have a soft spot for Piste B on Pleney, especially the first 2/3rds. It's a bit low and the snow can be crap, and it's only a blue... but it winds through the trees and has a lovely little rather steep bit (for a blue) which gave me a target for my first trip last year. The last bit is pretty crap though.
Aside from that, Tulipe is nice (from top of Ranfoilly lift), and I quite like Eglantine (next to Yeti, top of Rosta lift) for a short quick blast.
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Run down from Areitbahn 1 in Zell - stop off half way down at the Schoberalm. Goulash soup served in a bread bowl with a large weizen beer. Good red slope down to the town.
What more do you want? 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Luc Alphand in Serre Chevalier is an enjoyable whizz when quiet.
Also the Combe Saulire in the 3V 
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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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(Completely missing the Morzine angle of this thread and reminiscing, misty-eyed)
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Lindarets area is worth checking out. Lifts can get busy though.
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You know it makes sense.
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Blue 36 from Avoriaz on this map, starts from the bottom of the Stade lift. Do it at the very end of the day, on a sunny day, and wait until 5 minutes after they put the closed sign on it. It's a stunning, easy, scenic blue through the trees down to Les Prodains - and in the late afternoon shadows/sun, with no-one else on it, it's magical. Free and regular short bus ride to Morzine at the bottom.
http://www.imorzine.com/images/maps/planpistesavoriaz.jpg
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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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Harry Flashman, I did this last week. Someone overheard me moaning that I had to go down to Les Prodains on the cable car and suggested I follow this instead. It was exactly as you describe, lovely run.
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Poster: A snowHead
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I was back on my skis for the first time since fracturing my pelvis in January and decided that my favourite run is one with nobody else on. It was a beautiful day, and fairly busy with quite a lot of day trippers and although the skiing was fine I was a bit nervous of other skiers. So my favourite today was the Perdrix in Les Saisies, an easy black, which myself and two friends had practically to ourselves and which has a nice welcoming café at the bottom where the proprietress greets us like long lost friends. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I used to love the Avoriaz run that went down to the top of the Gondola the went down to Morzine.
It wasn't anything special, I think it was just the right steepness for me with a nice hairpin halfway down and some uppy downy bits 
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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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Harry Flashman, - that may be just the one!
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This one was nice:
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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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Redacted,
Last edited by Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do. on Thu 21-03-13 16:10; edited 1 time in total
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Looks like yeti in the foreground and eglantine further away in front of the really-disgusting-toilets place. Unless it's somewhere completely different!
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Based in morzine and assuming full PdeS pass I would recommend the Panoramique in Torgon sector on a ncie day for great views of Lac Leman and Montreux and across towards Villars
I would also recommend the Grand Paradis but beware there is a bit of a poling section in the middle.
Anything near the new and good Chamoissiere lift in the Morzine/Les Gets sector.
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Yeti off the Rosta lift
Marmottes on Mt Chery
Creux and Arbis off Chamossiere
Tulipe, coming to it from the Ranfolly lift, I could do that run all morning and still have fun.
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Abricotine in Avoriaz right of the Mossettes chair, right down to Ardent through Lindarets, is my favourit. Don't know why, just is.
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Lieve off the troncs chair in the nyon area, down to the bottom of the nyon chair. Option to use the chamois red too. Go mid afternoon and eat in nyon
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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justatheory, now where have I seen that pic before? 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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+1 countryman, fav scenic route: le Grand Paradis (Champéry)
all-time fav: la Perdrix Blanche (Linga)
fav long run, big drop (top to bottom), Avoriaz, start higher than the 36 mentioned above: Stade d'Arare + Crot down to Prodains + navette back to Morzine (even more fun if you take the blacks off the top of les Hauts Forts)
or go to the cafe at the Pas de Chavanette (Avoriaz) and watch others ski/fall down the Mur Suisse
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Carlos the Slackal, Singletrack!!
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You know it makes sense.
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jadavi, as you can see (if you ever look at this thread when you get back), you have to allow longer for answers on here, especially with a question that only a few on here will know about. Posting late in the evening before you go is too late.
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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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Saying it's just for Morzine would help too.
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Poster: A snowHead
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neil_b,
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+1 countryman, fav scenic route: le Grand Paradis (Champéry)
all-time fav: la Perdrix Blanche (Linga)
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You got it right there. Grand Paradis some nice red run skiing in stunning scenery (and usually quiet) followed by that trundle down the valley miles from anything.
Perdix Blanche is great as is the off piste area to its left (mind the cliffs) which inexplicably some locals call the donkey's knob
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Sat 23-03-13 14:44; edited 1 time in total
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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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Justa, I know it well.....
My friend the Captain tells me all about it.
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Marmottes on Mt Chery is great, the first bit is like skiing into the sky:
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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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My favourite runs.....have no name.... 
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calgary365, I love that bit - gorgeous panaroma.
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| martinm wrote: |
| Harry Flashman, - that may be just the one! |
Did you give it a go, as a last, post closing run on a sunny afternoon? Hope so.
Love that run as a warm-down/day-ender! Beer at the bottom, and then 10 minute bus back to the centre of Morzine. Magic.
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Stayed in Avoriaz both times, so no!
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