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Piste map commentary - especially Val Thorens/Les menuires
I am taking my family to les menuires soon. Would be handy to have a guide
to the pistes beyond the standard map. is there anything like this on the web? Just something which said "yes, these are reds but they ski like blacks" or "tricky for boarders" would be handy eg I can volunteer Clair Blanc as a difficult red in Les Arcs Mike |
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Piste map commentary - especially Val Thorens/Les menuires
On 2 Mar, 22:07, "mikecro" wrote:
I am taking my family to les menuires soon. Would be handy to have a guide to the pistes beyond the standard map. is there anything like this on the web? Just something which said "yes, these are reds but they ski like blacks" or "tricky for boarders" would be handy eg I can volunteer Clair Blanc as a difficult red in Les Arcs Mike Hi Mike, This year's Mad Dog Ski Guide (at least for Tignes) has a commentary on what the pistes do. It's pretty tricky to give hard and fast rules though because pistes have to be rated taking into consideration what the snow might do throughout the season. What might be considered a fairly easy blue in December can show it's true colours as an icy red mogul field come the end of Jan. Cheers, Matt |
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Piste map commentary - especially Val Thorens/Les menuires
Matt T wrote:
On 2 Mar, 22:07, "mikecro" wrote: I am taking my family to les menuires soon. Would be handy to have a guide to the pistes beyond the standard map. is there anything like this on the web? Just something which said "yes, these are reds but they ski like blacks" or "tricky for boarders" would be handy eg I can volunteer Clair Blanc as a difficult red in Les Arcs Mike Hi Mike, This year's Mad Dog Ski Guide (at least for Tignes) has a commentary on what the pistes do. It's pretty tricky to give hard and fast rules though because pistes have to be rated taking into consideration what the snow might do throughout the season. What might be considered a fairly easy blue in December can show it's true colours as an icy red mogul field come the end of Jan. Cheers, Matt UM! The Mad Dog Guide for Les Arcs slates Malgovert, which is a delightful run. IMHO it is not a very reliable guide. I must admit I do not see why Clair Blanc is a red and not a very easy black when it neighbour, fond blanc, is a black IIRC almost everything in the Trois Vallee is accurately graded. I cannot think of any thing that might catch you out apart from the ours and truite in Meribel which are vertually flat. Even skiers have been seen walking. John |
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Piste map commentary - especially Val Thorens/Les menuires
In message , john elgy
writes Matt T wrote: On 2 Mar, 22:07, "mikecro" wrote: I am taking my family to les menuires soon. Would be handy to have a guide to the pistes beyond the standard map. IIRC almost everything in the Trois Vallee is accurately graded. I cannot think of any thing that might catch you out apart from the ours and truite in Meribel which are vertually flat. Even skiers have been seen walking. Depending how bombproof your family are, the entry to Val Thorens from the Meribel side has its detractors. It warms up and gets gooey, choppy and crowded. A fellow traveller skied head-on into a French woman (they were both moving across the slope) and they stood there hanging onto each other and shouting in their respective languages until someone else ran into them and they all fell over - I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. -- Sue ];( |
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