Ski bud for Alpe d"huez last week in Feb

Looking for advanced ski buds between 23 Feb and 1 Mar. Very weak in French, so English speaking will help. I'm male, 50s, fun-loving skier, married but traveling alone. I'll ski pretty much anything. First time in ADH, so will appreciate any suggestions for lifts, runs, and apres. Buds of both genders are welcome.

Soirry can't help not available in Feb :oops:

Thanks for replying, Ian. Cheers.

Still looking for (a) ski partner(s) for next week. Arriving at ADH on Saturday, skiing Sunday through Saturday, 1 Mar. Hoping for and starting to feel the powder.

Heres something i copied and pasted for info, hope this helps:


ok, so the resort itself is surrounded by easy slopes, greens and blues, at the lower level. You can either take the marmottes chair to stage 1, or the romains chair next to it and you'll be on one of the many greens back into the village. These leave from the Bergers side of the resort.
Other side of town you can take the DMC gondola and ski back into town on greens and blues.
Once you are at level 1 on DMC you can head out to the other areas. Theres some lovely runs down to Oz and Vaujany.
My favourite runs were from DMC top stage, ski down the red to Alpette where the big Vaujany cable car comes in (where you will also find La Grange, the best pizza place in France....) and head down towards Montfrais. Lovely long blues down there with a lot to go at. Worth taking weaker intermediates as well, the red down to Alpette is manageable by anyone but beware the long Schuss at the end -get some speed up or you'll be poling!!!

Up at the top of Marmottes is the more serious stuff - you can go all the way up and do Le Tunnel which is a massive open unpisted run, usually mogulled to hell, scares the life out of most people but anyone who can ski in powder or moguls and is a strong skier will manage it. Higher up, you can take the Pic Blanc cable car and do the Sarenne run right form the top. Its another mind over matter run, but any reasonable intermediate can handle it, its just the first bit thats scary for some: a sort of narrow schuss and then anopen bowl with moguls and powder usually. After that it becomes a long long cruise, mainly blue in gradient. Go and do it mid morning before it gets ruined by the sun or other peoples tracks. Its the longest black in the world!!!

The other side of town is Signal, an open mountain with some fast reds to come back down on. Take the drag up not the chair, its faster! Some lovely off piste down the back here into Villard Reculas, or the pistes themselves are nice cruises too.

From the bottom of the Marmottes chair, head over the other side of the valley to Signal de l'Homme on the famous auris scare chair. It really isnt scary, but its a weird sensations to go fast down a mountain instead of up it on a lift. Some steeper reds over here so not really for beginners,, which is a shame as the little micro resort of Auris en Oisans is perfect for beginners and timid intermediates if they can get over there. There is a blue you can take from the top of Signal de l'Homme but I know a lot of people get lost finding it and end up on the really steep fast red back down to the bottom so beware!

In town, if you stop anywhere the Hotel Mariandre theres a fantastic restaurant called Edelweiss - about 20 euros for superb fillet steak still cooking on a hot stone when it comes out. And dont miss out on the cozy little Pacific bar nearby too, hard to find but we used it every night for drinks and a decent atmosphere, live bands sometimes too.

Its high so snow is good, but it does get a lot of sun and can suffer if it temps rise. I found its best to hit first lift (I always do wherever I go) and get out of town before the main lifts get busy, which they do once ski school start heading out. Get out to the extremeties early and work your way back.

Lunch at La Grange is great, free jugs of water too. Theres deckchairs to lounge in if you want to chill too.

Not cheap I am afraid for beers but this is France. We found some places in town, including Pacific, doing 3 pint jugs of Krony for 10 euros which I think is good. Don't get caught out ordering a large beer expecting a pint and getting a 2 litre stein for £12!!!!

I love the place. Its got something for everyone and those less confident skiers can find places to ski over each corner of the area with the exception of from the top of Pic Blanc where you do need to be a good skier really. My mate struggled on the top of La Sarenne and hes been skiing 12 years!!!

Hope you enjoy it, and if you need any more help let me know. I am sure you will like it.

(TonyH) Can't thank you enough for taking the time to provide all this info about ADH. Can't wait to find the spots with the best snow :) My "home" mountain for the last 31 years is Montana SnowBowl, which is steep, unrefined, and faces south, all below 2320 M. So I'm used to skiing crud of all types. Big bumps aren't a problem. But one knee doesn't like short choppy ones. I've only skied the US and Canadian Rockies. So this will be a big adventure and lifelong dream.