Messages posted by : lilywhite
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SAGA!
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Twice last season we managed to get a week in Are Sweden for 600 each including snowboard school for my other half, lift passes for us both and hired ski's for me. Google skistar sweden or check out neilson for cheap deals. We went self catering, ate in at night, bought beer from the national offy (roughly same price as GB, pubs much more expensive for spirits, beer about same as euro resorts) food on hills not too bad pricewise, good quality and most places free coffee refills, warming huts and bbq's scattered so you can heat your own food too. Skiing was great approx 100km across 3 areas, plenty green and blue for your GF, some more challenging reds, few blacks, great off piste available too. By feb whole mountain opens up and days are longer, we skied til about 5 plus there was option of night skiing on same lift pass. Don't be put off by the amount of drags, my BF progressed real quick from zero to red runs by end of first week probably because of the drags! Oh and the snow was awesome, fresh snow a plenty.
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Merino socks, pink poles and a ski bag, well done Santa, Lily believes!
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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
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Iceburger mitpommes, check out tkmaxx if your not looking for anything flash, I scored an 18litre one this weekend for £12 all the usual chest/waist straps,flip top with snow collar, security pocket inside, outside pocket,hydration compatible and a couple of straps for poles etc its got the cool back panel too, doubt it would be up to serious off piste adventures but perfectly good for the on piste stuff.
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Hi newbie here, be gentle :D More along the ridiculous than spectacular- following a mountain host thru the kiddy area in Are Sweden at literally 5mph followed him thru a gap in the tree's having missed the instruction to bear right as I lit a cigarette, found myself airborne, only a couple of feet but totally unexpected, landed in a heap on the back of his skis, red faced, uninjured and still with my poles under my armpit, fag in my mouth and butt tin in my hand. That will teach me for trying to to smoke on the move!
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