Any decent family resorts within 3 hours of Munich?
Planning ahead for next year and Munich is as easy to get to as Geneva from EDI, so I thought I'd look at options for Bavarian alps or Austria.
Any recommendations for resorts for beginners / intermediates. Juniors will be 11 and 9 and will hopefully have had a good 5-10 days on Scottish snow by then. Probably looking at February half term but a cheeky mid-term getaway is a possibility.
Any recommendations?
Just been looking at webcams for La Plagne (3 weeks to go) looks like its melting like mad. Lots of eartch popping through on anything south facing 🙁
Problem that there is no real base this year.
Will have to hope for a couple more dumps. Booked myself in for an off piste session with Reflex, more to meet up with other decent borders/skiers.
Any one else in La Plagne from 8th March?
Funkydunc - don't concern yourself at all. Webcams can be mis-leading. There is loads of snow now, the bad early season is pretty much just a memory and snow cover is "normal" for the time of year (if not exceptional). It's possible to ski all the way to Bourg Saint Maurice at the moment and more snow is potentially on the horizon for this weekend.
SMcD - keep saying that sort of thing. We don't go until Easter (children at school) and we need the snow to last.
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World championship slalom on now. Lots of ski events to watch yet, get onto RedBull TV[/i]
Watching Eurosport is winter sports paradise currently, just shocked ski sunday finished so early.
Stevo - are you doing a season /live out in La PLagne?
[i]Any decent family resorts within 3 hours of Munich?[/i]
Check out the ski welt, which is within 1.5hrs of Munich and has some great resorts aimed at different skill levels. Soll, Westerndorf are two, but around the area are places like Elmau[url= http://www.skiwelt.at/en/ ]here[/url]
[url= http://www.skiwelt.at/en/ ]here[/url]
Excellent family environments and great value. You can hire a car or book through companies such as inghams.
[quote=FunkyDunc dijo]Stevo - are you doing a season /live out in La PLagne?
stevo runs [url= http://www.whiteroomchalet.com/ ]the white room[/url]
Any decent family resorts within 3 hours of Munich?
We used to ski with the family in Garmisch - it's an hour from Munich. We also skied at a small resort near Chiemsee also an hour from Munich. I am sure there are better resorts further away, Garmisch and especially Chiemsee is a bit low. St Anton is less than 3 hours and you can take the train, looking at Google many of the Austrian resorts are about 3hrs away, Obergurgl is good for families.
Funkydunc - as nbt says, I'm a Tarentaise valley local. I live just outside Bourg Saint Maurice and I'm up snowboarding at La Rosiere and/or Sainte Foy most days.
Funky I'm just home la plagne it's thin but more than rideable after grooming. They should be getting snow all this week above 1800mt. les Arcs is holding up well around the big cable car area.
They should be getting snow all this week above 1800mt.
Don't know about that, the forecast is for good weather most of this week. Still uncertain for next week, but a strong possibility of heavy snow at the weekend (again!).
Thin? Don't know where's thin. But then I don't tend to go to [s]over-populated, flat, boring hell-holes[/s] Paradiski very often.
St Johann is a nice little resort - very family oriented. There's quite a few places around Kitzbuhel that would fit the bill.
A nice little in resort runaround here;
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There was a dude from Scott riding one of those around the resort here earlier this winter... he looked like a fanny too... 😉
a week and a bit until:
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5 sleeps!
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I think I'm beginning to see the disadvantage of having your ski trips early in the season 👿
well, after posting that taken yesterday from where we're going and hoping that it would hold, I just checked the forecast and it'll be 2 degrees and raining in a couple of days' time.
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Only one ski trip this year 🙁
But awesome off piste with guides in Engelberg.
Be safe everyone.
I think I'm beginning to see the disadvantage of having your ski trips early in the season
Me too. Not only was there no snow on the first trip, I've had two ski holidays and they were both done and dusted nearly a month ago!
Next year - last week in January and last week in February. Both booked last minute according to location of best conditions.
I just checked the forecast and it'll be 2 degrees and raining in a couple of days' time.
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fingers crossed it holds for you nedrapier ... it's been an odd season for sure this year in places! I'm off to the alps in couple of weeks and based on my luck so far this season I'm contemplating taking flip-flips & speedos! 8)
Cheers Digby, just had another look. the 2°C was near sea level, now it's forecasting 1°C, and 2 or 3 degrees colder and snowing at 500m 🙂
And after Friday, no new snow, very cold and no wind for a week before we get out. Shaping up quite nicely!
Shaping up quite nicely!
Peachy! 🙂
Was hoping to get in another couple of days at Cairngorm this week, but me buying the kids new skis seems to have jinxed the job. 😕
Just gotta hope that conditions improve next week once they are back at school 8)
@stoatsbrother. What was Englelberg like? Lots of swedes go there or Bad Gastein in Austria , plus there is a pro freerider with his own board company who goes there lots. Might try it next year
A mighty 8 degrees in Whistler village and a tip top 6 degrees at the Roundhouse at 1800m, and a couple of degrees at the peak. Still had a fun day and there was some decent snow around, but a little hunting was required. Really busy up the hill too with it being a holiday for the Americans.
Just gotta hope that conditions improve next week once they are back at school
Coincidently, Im also hoping conditions improve once your kids are back at school. 😉
Getting a bit thin at Glenshee. And it's still mild.
Well, 4 days in at Chamonix and the conditions are mediocre. The promised snow at the beginning of the week never materialised. Le Tour has the best conditions due to the height. Got so fed up, we took a drive down to Sestrier yesterday where they've actually got some deep powder, wonderful resort actually!
[quote=whatnobeer dijo]A mighty 8 degrees in Whistler village and a tip top 6 degrees at the Roundhouse at 1800m, and a couple of degrees at the peak. Still had a fun day and there was some decent snow around, but a little hunting was required. Really busy up the hill too with it being a holiday for the Americans.
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The view from Alpine Meadows (I think), yesterday
^^oh Jeez. 😐
That looks and sounds even worse than when we went in 08. Picture spending a small fortune going there for Christmas, and having loads of Seattle based arseholes saying to you all ten days, "Man, I've not seen it this bad in twenty years..." 😡
Anyway, I think for GrahamS' sake, we must have no more mention of Whistler in this thread.
Cairngorm weekend before last - amazing conditions (better than Whistler? 😛 )
Off to Dienten next week and conditions look great there too. Not that I'm smug or anything.
Anyway, I think for GrahamS' sake, we must have no more mention of Whistler in this thread
I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it ... 😆
It seems Google street view do ski resorts too. [url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/snowandski/picture-galleries/11417784/Google-Street-View-maps-the-worlds-ski-resorts.html?frame=3202301 ]story link[/url]
I never knew that, just had a good look at a few resorts and pistes I know quite well 8)
There have been a few story links from the US about concerns over how Global Warming is affecting their business, thank G-d they have woken up a bit !
Anyone know of a big ski/snowboard tech workshop in Surrey, Hampshire, Sussex?
I'm thinking S&R in Chertsey, anywhere else?
I need some snowboard strap binding spares, but the bindings are a little old and a little franken strapped already, so I really need a sift through a box of bits with the chap(pette) and make sure what looks good is good. Off next week, so I don't have time to get a special order wrong. Despite having had 10 months to think about it!
Well, 4 days in at Chamonix and the conditions are mediocre. The promised snow at the beginning of the week never materialised. Le Tour has the best conditions due to the height
Le Tour isnt high though. Where exactly have you been trying to ski where the conditions are not great? Having said that the Grand Montets can be very icey where Le Tour can be nicer conditions as it gets the sun more.
We've been all over, off to Coumeayer tomorrow. Le Tour definitely had the best conditions the other daY. My MAAtes whome I'm out here with have just got back from Les Houches (I'm laid up with man flu), conditions there are ok, but still from brilliant. Were boarders so like some powder! The pistes are in good condition where they've not iced, so if you like piste runs then it's all good.
Edit, I'm probably sounding doom and gloom, but used to boarding with fresh snow off-piste, the pistes don't really do it for me..
Anybody in Andorra/been very recently and can give feedback on conditions? Off there on Sunday for a week, first time there...
Sui - Flaine is only about 1hr away.... I have no idea what he conditions are like there though.
I am sure the Grand Montets will still have nice powder if you look in the right places!
davetrave - over on snowheads.com they have a weather reports thread on all the resorts, with reliable info coming in everyday from all the snowheads.
Ta
Anyone know of a big ski/snowboard tech workshop in Surrey, Hampshire, Sussex?
[url= http://www.skibarn.co.uk/en/ ]Try this[/url]
I've finally got the go ahead for a weeks boarding from February 28th, so, tell me experts of STW, where should I be considering? Preferably Europe, reasonably priced and with half decent après. I'd also like the moon to go with my selfie-stick 😉 Thanks in advance.
Anyway, I think for GrahamS' sake, we must have no more mention of Whistler in this thread.
You are all simply beastly 😛
Hell at least I know what to expect. Anyone got any thoughts on how to handle it? Holiday is already booked and paid for so that's done I guess but I was wondering whether I should look to claim on ski insurance under the "insufficient pistes open" clause?
Of course I haven't actually bought insurance for this trip yet so I'll be reading the terms around piste closure very carefully!
