J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by Ranchero_1979

Spent plenty of time in Norway skiing under floodlights and is:
1) cold
2) visibility is not the best (you will need to re-think your eye wear strategy)
3) on piste is never as nice to ski on before has had sone sun on it
Ask yourself what were your worst days you of skiing and most likely you would state (in no order) cold, bad visibility and or hard snow.

Has novelty factor which is good for pm or evening but would not recommend planning holiday around it.

Late Jan will be super easy to book flights and air B and B on way to resort :-).

At least not as bad as my mum she would have packed bags already

Normally you would be looking at 300GBP, for ratio of 1:6. One of the days would also include a guide in order to allow for some form of work on glacier.

Would be interesting to see what ratios are be offered by SCGB and how that affects the experience. Difficult to segments ski abilities if you are needing big groups and the type of terrain you can ski are clearly going to be affected.

Still superficially is a good price - too good? Lets wait for a response from someone who has tried.

Never used SCGB but there are a lot of instructor lead offpiste courses in chamonix and all are great value for money - All Mountain Performance, BASS, offpiste performance etc. Quite often these include at least one day with a guide to give for a more of a big mountain experience. Fantastic way for people to transfer skills from onpiste to offpiste and meet like minded people.

That was my though, is still peak season and softer snow is always easier to ski on.

How was it?

Have a look at the condition posts from 'high mountain guides'. Imagine at moment is wind packed up high and pretty open down below. Looks like quite a bit of snow on horizon which should help.

Just sharpen those edges has been. 10 days since snow.