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Started by Matt23 in Ski Chatter - 11 Replies

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Jocrad74
reply to 'best location for skiing in march'
posted Dec-2011

We have skiied Les Deux Alpes for the last 2 years running going 5th/6th March. Whilst the snow on the nursery slopes was poor last year, as soon as you got up to where the bulk of the slopes are, it was great. Lots of blue runs if your OH is nervous at first, nice wide slopes, and as it's an "upside-down" resort, these are all high up and so the snow wasn't an issue.

Whilst we found it quite busy, it's nothing compared to Borovets - been there too!! No queuing for 45 minutes for the gondola, I can assure you.
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Lilywhite
reply to 'best location for skiing in march'
posted Dec-2011

If you don't mind drag lifts try Are in Sweden, the days are a lot longer by march, theres around 100km of piste, my partner and I had a great time there March of this year and had awesome conditions, unlike like a lot of europe you can go pretty much anywhere between the pistes and theres some fun to be had in the trees, not a lot of real stretching runs if your advanced tho, your girlfriend would be well catered for on the plentiful greens, blues and reds, you get a real sense of travelling across the area. Whilst not cheap for eating and drinking out it does not have to cripple you, warming huts and bbq's throughout the slopes where you can make a hot drink or cook yourself something.Self catering suited us and the system bolaget which is the only place you can legally buy alcohol other than bars works out about the same as our local off licence here- £6 for wine £14 a bottle of vodka £6 a six pack etc. Check out skistar.com for deals, lift pass prices etc. I used them to book a couple of private lessons (I'm about your GF's level) and the tuition was excellent.No queues, few Brits (neilson only uk TO), no language barrier as the swedes spoke great english. Flights, transfers, accomadation, equipment carriage/hire and liftpasses came in around £500 quid

Tony_H
reply to 'best location for skiing in march'
posted Dec-2011

March trips I have done when snow coverage was excellent:

Verbier
Serre Chevalier twice

March trips when snow was patchy:

Mayrhofen
Sauze d'Oulx

I think the simple rule is go somewhere with high slopes, but possibly be careful with Alpe d'Huez as later season it suffers with the amount of sun it gets.
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Grizwald
reply to 'best location for skiing in march'
posted Dec-2011

Since when has snow cover ever been a serious issue early March-ANYWHERE?! OP where are you going ealier in the season? I've been to resorts late March where the alt tops out a little over 2000m and never turned up with nothing to ski.

If you can wait then do. If not Le Thuille is nice also consider Cervina-bigger and lots of intermediate crusing. Fancy Austia?

Topic last updated on 12-December-2011 at 14:50