Video from La Plagne Jan 2011

Enjoyable video to get me in the mood for our visit on Saturday. Looked pretty icy although I'm hoping the forecast falls this week come to improve things a bit. We've some beginners and nervous intermediates so hopefully they'll be ok. Did you do any off piste a couple of us plan to get a guide for a day atleast and go explore.

Griz,

No off piste for me, i am not at that level.....yet.
Unless the snow comes, in buckets, you will struggle to find any snow that isn't already tracked to hell.
When we left there was precious little fresh powder left and the lower slopes were pretty much ice with a dusting of man made snow on them.
Anything above 2000m is pretty much ok though, just not fresh and its hard packed.

You will have fun, the size of La Plagne will ensure there is always somewhere new to go.

Enjoy, i wish i were still there.

EmmaEvs wrote:

Snapzzz wrote:Would i go back? Well not anytime soon as some of the runs are pretty steep for my daughter and partner. How they can get away with calling some of those runs blue is beyond me. I intend to start another thread about this later on.

Snap! I've been thinking of starting a thread like that as some of the decisions on run grading that I've seen are a bit of a mystery to be fair! I wondered if I was the only one baffled sometimes. Glad to find it's not just me.

Totally agree here. i got pretty freaked out by some of those "BLUE" runs last week!!! I ended up with a pretty nice bruise on the side of my leg!!!!!!!
I would go back though and glad we did have some snow.