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Les Deux Alpes first week in March?

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:51:12 GMT

I have managed to get more time off for 4 days in Les Deux Alpes from 2nd March to 6th. Just wondering what anyone here thinks of the place? Or if anyone is there at the same time? I have skiied Alpe D'huez 3 times and was wondering if it compares?

Re:Les Deux Alpes first week in March?

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:29:41 GMT

I reckon D'heuz is better. The runs are more variable. L2A is a bit of a motorway resort.

Re:Les Deux Alpes first week in March?

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:31:04 GMT

Guy I know goes every year for Xmas, swears by the place. However, it is renowned for having a bottleneck on a piste back down into resort, and also a track record of closing higher lifts due to wind.
Read the chapter in WTSS.

Re:Les Deux Alpes first week in March?

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:04:09 GMT

Yeah, Alpe d'Huez is probably better but I got cheap flights to Grenoble and want to try somewhere new.
Anyone going?

Re:Les Deux Alpes first week in March?

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:11:52 GMT

Gareth Fair wrote:Yeah, Alpe d'Huez is probably better but I got cheap flights to Grenoble and want to try somewhere new.
Anyone going?

Why not try Serre Che, or Puy St Vincent, or Risoul maybe?

Re:Les Deux Alpes first week in March?

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:42:32 GMT

You'd have to be very unlucky with the snow to have a bad time in LDA at that time of year.

If you're confident off the pisted runs then there's little to choose between Les Deux Alpes and Alpe d'Huez IMHO - both have huge amounts of easily accessible and relatively safe off-piste and both have their share of steeps and gullies if that's your bag. You can ski over into La Grave for a day from LDA too (do NOT do that without a guide though). If you're not comfortable with that then you'll probably enjoy the great big wide pistes that go on for miles... :D ...though the fun is usually between them...

The so-called "bottleneck" in LDA is, I presume, the long, fairly narrow Green that returns beginners and timid inters to town... but the Black alternatives (Valentin and Diablo?) are not going to be busy in early March and both are (I think!) usually groomed so not too fierce. If the snow is half decent (highly likely given current depths and recent temperatures) then there are some straightforward off-piste runs back too.

Re:Les Deux Alpes first week in March?

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:36:03 GMT

Cheers admin, I like the sound of all of the above. :D

Re:Les Deux Alpes first week in March?

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:34:02 GMT

I'm a big fan of LDA been many times. If your not skiing blacks off the mountain the easy solution to miss out the green goat track, ski to La Crete and take the egg down....easy as that!

If you need any info let me know.

Enjoy!!