Messages posted by : Dorset Boy
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Hestra have a pedigree and reputation built up over 75 years or more. However as with most things, to a degree you get what you pay for. Their cheap gloves won't be as good as their expensive ones.
Look out when in resort to see what brands are used by the instrutors, pisteurs and lifties. If you work in the mountains you know the benefit of good gear. |
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Rose - Snowtogs have a decent range of Hestras and they'll give you the latest brochure too. That would give you an idea of what they say are their warmer gloves.
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We had 2 weeks at the Pierre & Vacances apartments in Flaine last year and will be back there this season. We ate back in the apartment at lunch, so that was no more that a fiver for 3 of us.
A flute was c.Eur1.00 Pain au Choc / Croissant are about the same price. Hot drink on the mountain was Eur3.00 - 3.50 Lunch cEur10-15, Dinner out Eur15-25 P&V apartments are less than 100m from the slopes and the lift that links to the other resorts. Supermarket is 200m away. |
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I'm curious to discover where and roughly when Pete?
Closed due to too much snow in Feb, but not enough in the main alpine areas above say 1400m in France? |
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If there's a lack of snow in February, there'll be no snow anywhere in Europe. You'll be fine, as every February skier has been since skiing was invented.
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Nah! Obviously she has the WRONG Hestras!!!! :D
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What is your budget like? If money isn't a great issue you could try the Grand Coeur Hotel in Meribel - bang in the resort centre, short stroll to the piste (100m max). http://www.legrandcoeur.com/uk/index.php#index.php
The great things about the Trois Vallees are the lift system (probably the best in the world) and that there are always alternative ways down. Piste grooming tends to be pretty good too. That said, any of the areas mentioned would be good. |
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Well they're not Hestra's are they! )
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