J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by wasley

This will be are 3rd time to Pas de la casa but yet to do a full red run

We are looking for a few easier red runs to break us in, what are the Easiest - hardest Red runs Pas de la casa / soldeu.

And out of the 3 red runs leading into PAS which one is the easiest..We had a look at DirectaI/II on our first trip when we were snowploughers and it looked quite steep quite busy and lots of lumps of snow/ice

I had 2 insoles in each boot to raise my foot ,but i've just got the boots out of the cupboard and i can only find 1 insole for each boot.
What can i use as a replacement or can i use a standard shoe insole??? The last ones were quite ridged

thanks

matt23 wrote:

wasley wrote:I hope its ok as we are going on the 1st march
We've been Jan & Feb the last 2 years .There always seems to a lot more snow fall mid Feb-March ,this is why we had picked begining of March

Good luck

this was kinda my thinking. looking at the previius 5 years there has been a big dump towarss the end of feb every year. fingers crossed for you. as for me reckon i am just going to wait. the money isnt as important as the snow. i am not going through what we did last year in bulgaria. bare runs . big slabs of ice and horid old snow. fingers crossed.

I also went to Bulgaria,Borovets last year as well as Andorra.We went to Boro 15th jan but luckily there was a small dump just before we went the temps were 12-16+ most days thou.In Andorra early feb we had no snow whist we were there and Temps 14-18+ .By the end of the trip the grass was staring to show throu and some piste were just big ice rinks at the end of the day.But the lack of snow was a big is in the whole of europe from the tv news in andorra

I hope its ok as we are going on the 1st march
We've been Jan & Feb the last 2 years .There always seems to a lot more snow fall mid Feb-March ,this is why we had picked begining of March

Good luck

hutchy wrote:From looking at the piste map and from memory you will only have to ski short bits of reds. But from my experience I have always found the runs in soldeu quite easy, they have always being well groomed and good condition which makes them easier to ski.

I wish they would make them not as steep as well

andyoneil wrote:

I'd say do the reds in Pas (directa 1 and 2 which I think at least one used to be classified blue) to build some confidence and go for it. Take your time and I'm sure you will be fine.

I think is the best plan for us,We have skied most of Directa 1+2 but not from the top.I think we would of tried it last year but it didnt snow whilst we were there beginning of feb and the ice patches were getting bigger and bigger and i didnt find it much fun

nyck

I ment the blue run Pastora not L'avi

We are going to Pas de la casa for are third trip in march.
We have skied most of the blue's in Pas & Soldeu/El Tartar but not any reds,well only when we go the wrong way.

We are all 40+ and most of us are not as brave or fit as we used to be ,but are hoping to tackle a few reds this time????

Looking at the Piste map we can ski from Pas-El tartar on blues but on the way back we would have to use a few red runs :shock: .

What would be the easiest route back or are all the reds hard

As an example the Blue (Pastora) from the top of pas into Grau ,we all found that quite steep at the top ,but that was are first trip and we could only snowplough at the time.

thanks nyck