Ever Decreasing Circles

It’s been a while, to quote, oh I dunno, probably hundreds if not thousands of songs. Lots has gone on including me getting nothing more than a frankly mediocre C grade in my As-Level photography course (which reminds me I must pick up the certificate and my coursework), and we move house. Over 12 months on, we are still making do and have onyl finished one bedroom (not even the one we’re sleeping in, it’s the guest bedroom we’ve finished!) and two bathrooms. We haven’t even been in the front room downstairs other than to dump boxes and scurry out again!

Anyway, the purpose of this post is not to witter on, but to stick up The. List. This is The. List. of ski resorts that we think we might want to visit over the coming years. If you ski with us, feel free to add resorts or tell us which ones you don’t fancy. The. List. is in no particular order by the way….

• Europe

• St Anton
• Verbier
• Baqueira Beret
• Grand Valira
• Gressoney
• Ste Foy Tarentaise
• La Thuile / La Rosiere
• La Plagne
• Les Arcs
• Saalbach Hinterglemm
• Schladming
• Bansko
• Cortina d’Ampezzo
• Kitzbuhel
• Selva Val Gardena
• Chamonix
• Alpe d’Huez
• Les Deux Alpes
• Bareges
• Kranskja Gora
• Flaine

• North America

• Red Mtn
• Silver Star
• Big White
• Revelstoke
• Whitewater
• Aspen
• Utah
• Jackson Hole
• Grand Targhee
• Mt Baker
• Big Sky
• W*******

• Exotic

• Japan
• Cat Skiing
• Alaska
• Chile
• New Zealand
• Kashmir

Rod made me put in the resorts in the States. and if you don’t know which resort is starred out, count yourself lucky you haven’t heard R&R rabbitting on for hours on end about how much better it is than whatever resort you’re currently in / considering….

Update: Phil made me add several “exotic” destinations….

Some time ago we bought tickets for a prize draw from our friend Pete Garwood out in Bourg St Maurice in support of the British Children’s Ski Team - we thought nothing of it until a few months later, when we got an unexpected but thoroughly welcome phone call saying we’d won the top prize:

Top prize: A Week’s Ski Holiday For Two!

courtesy of www.rocketski.com

inc. return flights, transfers, lift passes and half-board accommodation in any Equity/RocketSki Chalet or Club Hotel departing on any date (excluding New Year and Feb half-term) in the Winter 2006/7 ski season.

Well, the brochure finally arrived a few days ago and we picked out a lovely luxury chalet in Alpe d’Huez: then they told us we’d have to pay an extra £242 each as it was run by someone else! So, we picked a new place that wouldn’t cost us any xtra, and now we’re all booked and counting down the days

It would appear that there’s been a breakdown in communication somewhere as the lift passes aren’t included, but that’s not big deal in the grand scheme of things: without this unexpected prize we’d have struggled to get a holiday at all given our current situation, so paying for a lift pass is not a bad price!

We’re going to Le Corbier in France. We picked it as we’ve never been to the resort before and the hotel is ski-in / ski-out and seems to be a decent standard. We’re flying out of Manchester for a week’s holiday in March

http://rocketski.com/skiing-france/Le-Corbier/Le-Corbier.aspx
It’s a very reasonably sized area, there are five lift linked resorts offering over 300km of pistes. We’re looking forward to exploring!