Messages posted by : dobby
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Matt23, stop worrying. L2A has heap bit glacier. Lots of snow. Runs back to resort may be pants, but who cares? The green back to resort is rubbish anyway. If you want to keep an eye on snow conditions, use easiski's snow blog or www.2alpesnet.com. The reports on www.2alpesnet.com are funny, anyway.
Cheers. Dobby (who'll be doing a snow dance cos you can never have enough of the stuff) |
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Icy, long time to wait for snow if you are going to Morzine in September. Worse parts of the world to wait for snow, though. You messing about on an MTB? Or caving perhaps?
Dobby |
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Thinking of ditching the usual seaside holiday this year and heading for the hills in France this summer for some walking, cycling, kayaking etc. If I am near to a glacier (erm, that's Les 2 Alpes, then) should I bother doing some summer skiing? It sounds quite appealing. I have heard that it's fun, but the number of pistes is of course limited and the place will be over-run by race teams....
Anyone any thoughts? Cheers Dobby |
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Pavel
You will be pleased to know that the snowplough queen is dead. Long live the parallel queen who skis faster than mum and dad. And moans because we won't let her ski faster. Dobby |
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Just back from a week at Club Med at Les 2 Alpes. Must say that I thoroughly enjoyed the all-inclusive experience and would gladly return to Club Med, but at a different resort. We were 2 low intermediate adults (level 2b-2a on the ESF skiing scale), beginning 8 year old and a 10 year old starting to parallel, going in the third week of January. Some pros and cons of Club Med at L2A: Pros Excellent food (very French and sometimes a little undercooked for my liking) Nice refurbed rooms (if a little small in places) Excellent, friendly, helpful staff (you can tell that most are employees and not seasonnaires on the lash/ski/pull) Good kids club (although not many English kids - probably due to it being school term time) Kids club even bussed the kids to a different resort when the weather was abysmal in L2A. ESF lessons (included in package) were very good Overall, good value (all inclusive food and booze, ESF lessons and lift pass) Cons Hotel a little out of town (a 15 min. walk across the piste fronts to the town centre, such as it is in LDA) - not close to main lifts on glacier side, but good access to slopes on other side of the road You can feel a little "institutionalised" and not actually make it out of the hotel v much, apart from to ski Ski and boot hire expensive and equipment not that impressive for the prices charges - there are at least two other rental outlets at LDA 1800 (Skimium and Skiset ?) Some pros and cons of LDA (you've probably heard them all before....) Pros For the real beginners, lots of nice little greens at the bottom of the slopes, most of which are not used as through pistes by nutters screaming down from black runs immediately above Some nice long runs from the top of the glacier to just above the village Lots of nice blue runs for my not v good standard of skiing (and I loved it) They tell me that the blacks can be fun and that the off piste can be good (but me no have first hand experience) Cons Slightly odd piste layout in that the pistes extend back, back, back onto the glacier (as opposed to lots of pistes fanning out around the resort)- this means that it can take you a little while to get to the top of the mountain - some very nice runs on the top of the glacier, though (if the wind hasn't shut the lifts, but it's January after all) No pleasant runs back to resort on the glacier side - you can take a black (valentin) or a miserable little green road on which you will invariably get mown down by some teenager who is going so fast that he is starting to gain weight. |
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Jocrad74, I'll try to leave some snow for you. Cannot promise, though
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Snowedin, you may be right. Webcams looking snowy and reports from lesdeuxalpes.net mention heavy snow throughout today. Better change the goggle lens to "vis = FA" lens. One good thing - lots of powder will give me an excuse when I fall over.
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Happy holidays, work is over. 2 to go. Packing started. Kids and wife knackered. Dad (me) over-excited. Snow falling in resort. Bring it on and may the knees of middle aged man stand up to a week's skiing.
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