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 #1 Cervinia tips Posted 10/03/2010 @ 12:50 |
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I'm heading to Cervinia for a week away soon - anybody got any tips? Good pistes/best powder stashes etc? I plan to check out Zermatt when I'm there so any good advice for there is welcome too. Thanks all... |
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| #2 Re: Cervinia tips Posted 10/03/2010 @ 20:54 |
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| #3 Re: Cervinia tips Posted 10/03/2010 @ 21:06 |
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Cervinia is a great resort mate, you will have an awesome time. Loads of decent wide open cruising blue and red runs all over the place. Head right to the top, Plateau Rosa, and the ride all the way to the bottom is brilliant!! The park, Indian Park, is brilliant if you are into freestyle stuff. Have a quick youtube search and you will find some vids of it.
Zermatt is great as well, definately worth getting the area lift pass. Tons of blue and red runs again, but a few more tree runs. There are also a couple of nice blacks - testing but not ridiculous. There is also another great park or two. There is a nice area with some off piste powder when conditions are right, near the runs beside the railway (cant remember the name of the lift station but you will see the railway on the piste map).
ALl in all a great area to go riding - you will not be disappointed. Have fun. |
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| #4 Re: Cervinia tips Posted 10/03/2010 @ 21:14 |
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| In reply to post #3
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I was there in January and there wasnt enough snow to make the park, man. There were two kickers in there (blue and red) and a beginner box + a tiny kicker. |
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Just let your sooooul glow!!! |
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| #5 Re: Cervinia tips Posted 11/03/2010 @ 08:33 |
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| In reply to post #4
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Thanks for your help guys. I'm hoping the park is properly built now as that's a major reason for going there... Enjoy the rest of your season. |
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| #6 Re: Cervinia tips Posted 29/03/2010 @ 12:25 |
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Ok then, thats me back from Cervinia chaps.
SolGlo - I didn't bother with the long run down to Valtournenche as the first few days I was away it was spring conditions all over the mountain and the snow cover on the lower section of that run was said to be poor at best. Good tip regarding the flatish blue run down into Zermatt from the border though - kept plenty of speed up there and overtook a speeding piste basher which was a laugh. Well worth going over the border though - conditions were a bit better and I have to say I prefered the park there. It's not that the Indian Park in Cervinia was bad (far from it) - it just didn't suit me. That is to say the level I'm at was more suited to the Gravity Park in Zermatt. It had three kicker lines of three kickers in each which were well spaced for hitting one after the other. Couple of good boxes of varrying degrees of difficluty and a pipe too. The Indian Park had far more features but at only 100 meters long it was hard to link together anymore than two of them before having to get enough speed to exit the park and get back on the piste. The little uphill walk to enter the park was a pain too (could ride in with enough speed but that meant taking a second chair higher up just to ride a dull piste back down).
All thoughts of the parks went midweek though when it properly dumped. Riding was very difficult in the poor vis but the piste conditions really improved. The next day was outstanding with a foot of un-pisted powder on the piste! We did laps of Cieloalto area and were amazed to find nobody else there! We got fresh powder all morning on-piste and all afternoon off-piste. And Cervinia being full of old skiiers and not many boarders there were fresh tracks all the next day too!
As much fun as we had I think the only way I'd go back here is at very short notice with a good forecast - the Cieloalto area is the only place with trees on the mountain making it a real test when the cloud's down. I booked this with a week to go but I think I'd wait even later than that in future. |
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