St Anton Vs Courchevel

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St Anton Vs Courchevel

On few fronts are these two resorts similar indeed they both have lifts and snow :0 (this week has been exceptionally warm for February and we have had no snow in the Arlberg region and next week it will be getting desperate) but I digress.The types of runs are also very different. Not being much of an off piste skier, I won't comment on this except to say in this regard there is enough of this in both resorts to keep anyone happy.

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The Height of Fashionable
St Anton sits at 1300 m and Courchevel sits vertically between 3 resorts with a free bus linking them or they can be linked with ski or lift. If we look at Courchevel 1850 it sits, well surprisingly at 1850m and is the highest of the three Courchevels the others being 1550 and 1300.[val thorens sits the highest at 2300m and is the ugliest resort but stunning runs!]. Even being much lower at 1300 St Anton has a good snow record.

The types of run you can find in St Anton are varied and not particularly easy nor overly difficult unless you make them so. It is a great area for the intermediate skier and has some great trecks that arent monitored or bashed at all, these will challenge anyone. Plenty of mogul fields and some wider stretches of steeper bashed runs exist. There might be a lack of soft green learning pistes for beginers and the school was found to be lacking. In one particular case a beginner abandoned the course because of lack of progress. She was on the first 3 days walking up a very mild slope and waiting around and "skiing" down the slope if you could call it a slope...on day 3 pushing they actually got up the mountain a bit but on day one this was desirable and I suspect normal. I'm not sure about the text book but when I went to ski school it was a steep curve based actually skiing on the mountain and we progressed rapidly and as a group having a lot of fun and mild fear.

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