Looking for Alps moguls, blues and reds and blacks

Hello all, I've lurked here for a while, but now am planning my first ski trip to the Alps in early March. We hike a lot in the summer in the Dolomites and Austrian Alps, but have always skied in Colorado. I love intermediate to expert moguls and will ski them all day if I can. Do places like Garmisch or any smaller areas have advanced slopes (sort of like Arapahoe or Mad River Glen in the States if you know those). We're not big resort people and don't need any real amenities, although some good restaurants are welcome. Our default will probably be St Anton because it sounds like they have plenty of terrain for everyone.

We are thinking of trying to just get lodging on the fly so we can try a few different areas if we want. We'll have a car. Will there be vacancies reasonably close to the mountains - like within a 1/2 hour, or should we book ahead?

Well thanks a bunch
Sandy

Hi Sandy, welcome to J2 ski.

I have skied in Vail, Keystone, Beaver Creek, Arapahoe Basin, and Breckenridge, and was most impressed with the mountain management. It seemed to me that many pistes are managed half pisted, half unpisted, thus allowing a mogul field to develop. I have always thought this was a smart way to organise, because people can dip in and out, and thus build up experience.

In general, European resorts tend to have pisted or unpisted runs. Thus smaller resorts tend to piste all of their runs, because in that way they can maximise on groomed km/milage.

I am not mogul freak, and I have not detected others on J2 of that ilk. From my forages on mogul fields I suggest:
France ~ Val D'Isere
Austria ~ St Anton area, Stuben, Rendl
Switzerland ~ Zermatt, Saas Fee

Although you indicate that you do not care for large resorts, I think the general trend in Europe is that big mogul fields are to be found in large steep resorts. Maybe, you might aim for an outlying village, in the lift system.

Others will enlarge, no doubt.

Yeah Val D'isere has some good moguls, thought if your on the Val side heading to Tigne side you will find some Animal Moguls. These moguls where nearly metre high ones and they go under the chair of Tommeuses at the top of Toviere. I tried them before but it was very hard, it was very steep as i recall. But the moguls continue down nearly have way down the run or could be more. They were big when i went and i went at the start of the season. But i must say that Val and Tigne are world class resorts which have so much you can do. Escape Killy pass is the way to go and well worth the money

Moguls?
Only one place to find mile upon mile of them, and thats Verbier in Switzerland. Easy to find accommodation too as its a big place.
Alternatively, I found lots of varied terrain with moguls and off piste opportunities in both St Anton in Austria which is as good a ski area as I have visited, and Alpe d'Huez in France where I visited recently.

Thanks for the info. I think St Anton's in Austria sounds good since my husband is going to a conference in Karlsruhe Germany, and then I am meeting him after that. Just digging out from 8" of powder here in the Appalachians - hope all is well across the pond!

Sandy