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 #1 Random Resorts Posted 05/09/2010 @ 18:02 |
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Bit of an odd one this... I'm thinking of doing a bit of a road-trip this winter (as well as my usual trip to Morzine ) and visiting some of the smaller, less known, resorts in France and Switzerland. Does anyone have any advice on where to go (and maybe where not to go)? |
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| #2 Re: Random Resorts Posted 05/09/2010 @ 18:05 |
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If the snow is good, try the French Pyrenees (and the Spanish side). A lot of people don't realized (aside from Andorra) a there are lots of resorts down there - a whole row from the Atlantic to the med!
Gourette and La Mongie on the Altantic side are well worth it - further in, no idea |
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| #3 Re: Random Resorts Posted 09/09/2010 @ 20:16 |
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If you're going to be in the Pyranees, try some of the Spanish resorts out. Baqueira Beret is very nice, great runs and when it snows - excellent off-piste. Did a season there a few years ago and the best thing was that he Spanish like to have lie-ins so if you got on the first lifts in the morning you had everything to yourself! |
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| #4 Re: Random Resorts Posted 09/09/2010 @ 21:24 |
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QUOTE (P.H.D. - 05/09/2010 @ 18:05) If the snow is good, try the French Pyrenees (and the Spanish side). A lot of people don't realized (aside from Andorra) a there are lots of resorts down there - a whole row from the Atlantic to the med! Gourette and La Mongie on the Altantic side are well worth it - further in, no idea
Ahaaa ! looks like another brit has been to Gourette then ! I thought at one point I must be the only GB'er to have done the pyrenees other than Andorra for a while then.
Thats where were going and will also do Cauterets,Touremalet and Artouste while were at it. And I now know for sure Gourette has its own snow park.  |
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| #5 Re: Random Resorts Posted 10/09/2010 @ 09:38 |
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If you end up down that neck of the woods. The Eastern Pyrenees have some great little resorts: Les Angles, La Molina, Massella, Ax les Thermes etc. Not really places where you'd want to spend a whole week in any one of them but doing a day or two in each of them is good. Done quite a few trips down there. Makes a nice change to the big resorts in the Alps. Slopes tend to be empty during the week as well.
You can always break that up with a night or two in Pas de la Casa to get some beers and party time in. |
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| #6 Re: Random Resorts Posted 10/09/2010 @ 09:48 |
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A word of warning - the drag lifts at Artouste are the most brutalI have ever come across. You'll know the one I mean if you try it ...........
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| #7 Re: Random Resorts Posted 10/09/2010 @ 11:58 |
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QUOTE (P.H.D. - 10/09/2010 @ 09:48) A word of warning - the drag lifts at Artouste are the most brutalI have ever come across. You'll know the one I mean if you try it ...........
Cheers for the heads up, I'll bear that in mind, ha ha. Did any of you manage to get to St Lary Soulan ? Is it any good there ? |
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