[Travel] Skiing 2025

[WATFORD zero]

So where are you going skiing/boarding this year ?

Of for some, where are you currently ? @Weststander

 

[Soton Seagull]

Leaving it late this year and off to Sauze d'Oulx in Italy mid March

 

[Bry Nylon]

So where are you going skiing/boarding this year ?

Barnsley

 

[Weststander]

Arosa in Switzerland now, nearly over. Wonderfully empty slopes, but a few more aggressive skiing 20 year olds today (long weekends?).

Colfosco on the Sella Ronda in the Dolomites in a few weeks time.

All timed to avoid European school holidays.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Tamworth snow dome.

 

[Chicken Run]

Devils Dyke & Wolstonbury Hill, great Apres Ski tonight in Poynings.

 

[Weststander]

@WATFORD zero where will you be skiing?

 

[PHCgull]

Just walked off the piste after a week in Le Grand Bornand, France. A mixed week, weather wise, but some great skiing nevertheless in an almost empty resort with plenty of varied skiing and very, very few of the range rover sport brigade here... mostly french.

Should be home in time to find a small river for the naarch game

 

[Blues Guitarist]

I skied in Kitzbuhel today. Snow was varied. We had 10cm of new snow last night, but strong winds meant some icy pistes while others had nice powder. -10 at the top and string winds in the morning menat an extra hot chocolate stop.

And no-one is here - which is wonderful!

 

[AK74]

We're planning at the moment. Megéve was going to be our chosen destination for mid-March, but having discovered there are 62 surface lifts (the drag-you-along type), we've decided to go somewhere else.

 

[Lethargic]

Just walked off the piste after a week in Le Grand Bornand, France. A mixed week, weather wise, but some great skiing nevertheless in an almost empty resort with plenty of varied skiing and very, very few of the range rover sport brigade here... mostly french.

Should be home in time to find a small river for the naarch game

Good to hear, will be in La Clusaz in 5 weeks time.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Another winter passes me by without hitting the slopes

 

[Dave the OAP]

Too old now

 

[Alfagull]

Kronplatz (Dolomites) tomorrow!

 

[WATFORD zero]

@WATFORD zero where will you be skiing?

I'm going with the family (Mrs Wz, our kids and their partners) to Les Arcs mid March. We're staying at Arc2000 so hopefully the snow should still be good at that height. The last few years I've also gone with the guys I play football with, but they are going 3 weeks earlier and last year I did two weeks skiing four weeks apart and my knees were really bad. I couldn't play football for a couple of months after that so I have had to turn it down

Although I'm thinking of one of the smaller Austrian resorts with just me and Mrs Wz maybe in a few weeks time. Some of these spa hotels with excellent food have some really good offers outside of the big resorts. And if there's not hundreds of Km of skiing we could maybe just do 2-3 hours skiing a day and the rest in the pool etc. We'll see if I can persuade her

 

[Whoislloydy]

I have a season pass for one of the local Vancouver mountains called Seymour. It's smaller than Cypress and Grouse but is the only family owned and operated one. It's also much quieter, I can be in the resort parking lot from the other side of the city in half an hour.

I have a 10 day Whistler pass too, have 7 days left.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Ah time for the yearly middle class migration from Brighton.

 

[Professor Plum]

Another winter passes me by without hitting the slopes

Same here. I lived in Switzerland 15 years and never went skiing.

 

[Weststander]

I'm going with the family (Mrs Wz, our kids and their partners) to Les Arcs mid March. We're staying at Arc2000 so hopefully the snow should still be good at that height. The last few years I've also gone with the guys I play football with, but they are going 3 weeks earlier and last year I did two weeks skiing four weeks apart and my knees were really bad. I couldn't play football for a couple of months after that so I have had to turn it down

Although I'm thinking of one of the smaller Austrian resorts with just me and Mrs Wz maybe in a few weeks time. Some of these spa hotels with excellent food have some really good offers outside of the big resorts. And if there's not hundreds of Km of skiing we could maybe just do 2-3 hours skiing a day and the rest in the pool etc. We'll see if I can persuade her

My favourite ski trips are at those incredible Austrian spa hotels. I met a bloke years ago on a ski clinic trip who used to book one later each season so that his non-skiing wife had lots to do when he went off skiing (St Anton).

Yeah, I recall finding walking down stairs at home a bit of a chore after the second week last season. Stretching/flexibility work at home/away I find really helps, done daily.

 

[WATFORD zero]

My favourite ski trips are at those incredible Austrian spa hotels. I met a bloke years ago on a ski clinic trip who used to book one later each season so that his non-skiing wife had lots to do when he went off skiing (St Anton).

Yeah, I recall finding walking down stairs at home a bit of a chore after the second week last season. Stretching/flexibility work at home/away I find really helps, done daily.

When we first went skiing (40 years ago ) we went to a few 'smaller resorts' St Johan, Coumayer, Cavalese and found we had skied all the pistes within a day and very quickly got bored. So for the last 35 years we have been going to the big linked resorts with 200Km+ and continued this when the kids were born and started skiing. Obviously these resorts are more expensive (hotels, passes, restaurants, everything).

Last year, with the guys I play football with we went to Bardonecchia and although we'd skied it all in 3 days, I was quite happy taking it 'easier' and the prices were a real eye opener. This has now opened up hundreds of 'smaller' resorts for Me and Mrs Wz that are far cheaper. From what I've seen, really good Hotels in small Austrian resorts are half the price they are in Tignes, La Plagne, Three Valleys etc

(The kids still want 100s of kms)