Messages posted by : sfiddik
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We were out in Alp D'Huez on 25th Feb for a week and loads of the mountain was left untouched by the piste bashes. I've written a response to the piste Bashing thread as the pistes were in such a bad condition.
The snow is going. They haven't been getting any real new stuff and the week we were there it was way too hot. If lots of new snow was there and the French weren't so bl**dy lazy I can see this resort as being a really nice ski resort. I for one from my experience will not be going back to there or France soon. |
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We were out in Alp D'Huez on 25th Feb for a week and loads of the mountain was left untouched by the piste bashes.
Our home run which was a red run was moguled to death and was not touched once in our whole week meaning that after trying that on the first day with tired legs we voted for the blue flat home where you have to push yourself along. We were severely disappointed with the piste maintenance during our week. It made it dangerous as you could be dropping off down a run thinking this is fine until you find yourself on a mogul field. Not safe for people wanting to try a red run for the first time. They were also preserving runs for their local slalom courses! They were all kept nicely groomed! Sorry we as tourists have paid a lot more than local or seasonaires to ski the mountain! We went through a closed sign to ski on beautifully groomed red run that was closed because they were holding some kids slalom event on it a bit later. A couple people thought maybe that it was due to the lack of new snow and that over pisting the snow is bad etc. but I think it's down to bl**dy lazy French! It's been like this in many French resorts to the point now we have decided to boycott the French resorts from now on. |
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