Val Thorens???

[Rusty Nails]

Invited by a group of friends in Paris to join them at Val Thorens. Anyone have an inside scoop on whether or not I should recommend another location? I've hit their internet site, but all in all most have the same propaganda.

[AntiSoCalSkier]

Val Thorens was my first chairlift ride. We somehow managed to pick a lift that had at least a 50 foot pylon on top of a five storey building. We were WAY up there. However, I survived, and rode many more chairs.

I can tell you that I had a lot of fun there, but I was 10, so everything was huge and steep.

[Idris]

Go for it.....imagine summit county CO interconected ......54,000 hectares of skiing 680km of pistes (to keep the gapers contained).....Ok it does look like a bad dream on the moon and it sucks when the light is bad, but then you just catch a chair over the hill to Meribel or Corchevel and ski trees.....you will have a blast, just ignore the awful british tourists, the french gaper ski fashon...

A few pics from The Trois Vallees

http://www.braich.demon.co.uk/meribe.html

[warthog]

Skied there 2 years ago. Stayed in Les Menuires.

It is hell when it is socked in. Get to Courchevel to ski trees like said before. Or, do what I did- get as high as you can on the mountain and hope it is above the cloud ceiling(it was).

Lift lines are a treat. Approach them like a linebacker would approach a rusher, and you will be fine. Not for the timid. Your topsheets will never look the same though, sorry.

Word to the wise. The sleeper train back to Paris looks like a good idea, you get to ski the whole day and then sleep all the way home. Well, you do ski the whole day. Good luck sleeping on that thing. Every time we went around a bend, I thought the thing was going over. I think I slept a total of 2 hours, 5 minutes at a time.

Another word to the wise- don't look out the window of the bus up to Val Thorens. Those fuckers haul ass, and it is a long way down. And yes, they do go over.