I'm just catching up, but ....
CFH:
They do go to Les Arcs, though
Hands off, it's MINE!
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hammerite, thanks for the recommendations.
We know Skiwelt well but really wouldn't risk it there early season if booking ahead.
Yes, we've done Ski Armade area early in the season before and been lucky like you. It's a thought.
Not done Saalback/Hinterglemm - will check it out. Thanks for that.
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Just spotted this over on the other side;
[url= http://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=132590 ]What was the first ski lift you went on? [/url]
Seemed a good topic for here as well!
For me, it was the dry slope at Gloucester.
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Ran up and down to the first "turning" for an afternoon of falling over. Loved it, though!
Christchurch Ski Centre!
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Hated it!
Ta for the info on la tania.
Turns out because of the group size and the fact we have a 2 year old it has been fun finding an appropriate chalet, looks like we have settled on la plagne now.
Going to book over the weekend and Def going to have a go on the bobsleigh run out there
The ski tow at Sirdal skisenter in Norway near Stavanger.
What was the first ski lift you went on?Seemed a good topic for here as well!
SSV ... gone ... burned (quite a few times) ... but not forgotten.
Once caught the 'little fella' whilst riding the button lift ... 😳
Grahamt1980 - check SkiFamille first. Not cheap, but bang on for what it sounds like your after.
They do a few resorts.
What was the first ski lift you went on?
T-bar at Cairngorm. Day Lodge maybe? It went downhill at one point. I was on a board. 😯
First lift - Aviemore, but I think I spent most of the time falling over followed the next year by ..... Serre Chevalier (just for you CFH)
Halifax dry ski slope with Bradford Uni Ski Club in 1990
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First lift on snow would have been Borovets in 1997: the gondola up the mountain and the drag along the ridge. I've got a pic but can't find a version online at the moment
Kids lift in Livignio, (1980) wore through my C&A salopettes sliding on my arse. It's tax free there so was cheaper to buy skis and boots than hire.
Bassingbourn rope tow for me. Somehow ended up in the middle of the thing and then didn't ever go back.
Hillend.
The lift I have used most, is probably the one in in CFH's photo.
Borovets, Bulgaria.
Went with a group of friends and friends of friends so there was a bit of getting to know half the people. Checked into the hotel from the Shining and went to our rooms then back to the bar. Having the how's your room chat and the answers are dowdy, it's somewhere to sleep etc. Someone asks does your telly work? Leads to did you find the porn? Where's Richard? Still up there - it's proper hardcore and he loves it.
Any recommendations for a week in Italy in late January. Mainly skiing on piste intermediate level. No need for family friendly or rowdy speed...?
Bloody autocorrect, apres not speed
First lift was at Rossendale dry slope. Getting off was an interesting experience.
The third time I went, a chap came down the slope with his stick sticking straight out in front. He was gathering speed and managed to knock me out near the base. My friend's brought me round and luckily I was only 'out' for seconds. Not a pleasant experience. The chap was banned if I remember correctly.
During another visit a young chap came careering down the slope, through the flimsy netting, landing in the carpark just below. 😯
They're looking into snowmaking equipment that can work in +3c in Ski Amadé apparently, at the moment it has to be -3c. Not sure if/when it will happen.
Italy: I wasn't particularly impressed with Cormayeur, liked Bormio though, although a bugger to get to. Having a car in both places is good though as there are some great options on the same ski pass nearby.
First lift - the magic carpet at Xscape MK, then Poma at the same venue.
On real snow - one of the Poma lifts near Les Bergers in AdH.
Any recommendations for a week in Italy in late January.
The Selle Ronda area is a nice place - Colfosco / Corvara.
Odd, I thought I'd replied suggesting Courmayeur. I've had a weekend and two weeks there, really like it. Mrs NBT wants to go back. Rockape63 doesn't seem to like it which I can understand, but each to their own
Any recommendations for a week in Italy in late January. Mainly skiing on piste intermediate level. No need for family friendly or rowdy speed...?
What about somewhere 15k or so over the border?
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The Monte Rosa areas north of Turin is extensive and good for intermediates
CaptainFlashheart - Member
Any recommendations for a week in Italy in late January. Mainly skiing on piste intermediate level. No need for family friendly or rowdy speed...?
What about somewhere 15k or so over the border?
What were you thinking Flashy - although the wife has been heavily researching Val Claret so the choice may no longer be mine 🙄
Belle plagne booked for a week in Feb. Nice and high so should be ok for snow
So does it translate as knight's greenhouse Flashy?
Could be.....
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First ski lift would have been on the dry slope at Aviemore Centre.
My first lesson would have been the year before when there was no tow, which at the age of 10 in 1981 really sucked!
Move on a few years and our secondary school had it's own ski slope, again no tow.
The school's slope was actually an old bit from Hillend and it's still lying out the back of the school and hopefully it'll get fitted in our local public park, no doubt without a tow!
I'll second the Sella Ronda as a recommendation. We stayed in Arabba which is nice.
As mentioned earlier in the thread Cervinia. It's an intermediates dream, long wide slopes, not too steep - very flattering! Bonus is the ability to ski Zermatt too.
It's snowing in Austria!
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Also, just enrolled on the transceiver & search training course with Henrys Avalanche Training (HAT)
Dates just released for his various courses.
Well for anyone Les Gets / PdS bound, they are rebuilding the Ranfolly (Tulipe) chair.
Igm-indeed they are, ran round the top of it last month, new footings for the towers were going in
Giant - you didn't go to inverkeithing did you ? We had one there which was tiny
New footings looked finished and a new bottom station built when I was there 10 days ago.
No NZ I went to the equally glitzy Bathgate Academy!
Trying to book our crossings to Ijmuiden so we can head to Mayrhofen, but DFDS haven't released the winter timetable yet. 🙁
First lift would have been the rope tow, on the nursery slope in Wengen, right in front of the Mannlichen lift, in 1981. Since they had to move the lift following the avalanche, they appear to have built all over that field.
Biked home in Edinburgh last night to a white garden !
Booked for Les Gets 4th Feb, woo hoo ! Ski Famille again, Marjorie which was being significantly rebuilt when i biked past in July.
First ski lift would have been on the dry slope at Aviemore Centre.
My first lesson would have been the year before when there was no tow, which at the age of 10 in 1981 really sucked!
Also had my first lesson here in 79 or 80 could have sworn it had a lift. this is the place in Aviemore town not up the mountain?
First snow lift was a couple of months later in Bardonecchia.
I bet no-one has the same first lift as I had - The Familiale at Le Lioran
[url= http://www.lelioran.com/webcam.html ]Here in it's current state[/url]
