Hello all, I realized I didn't do this right when I joined, just a few weeks ago. As an expat in London, I first encountered PugSki through the SkiGearTV YouTube videos, as I was an avid consumer of SkiEssentials videos and content.
I’ve been skiing since I was about 8, in 1987, when my family built a cabin in the Tahoe Donner development, and I progressed from the TD ski hill (which my grandpa, a family practice doctor in Medford, Oregon - originally from the Twin Cities - called the best place to learn he'd ever seen) to ski the steeps, bowls and eventually the off-piste at Squaw, Alpine and Sugar Bowl. During college at Northwestern, I did ski bus trips to Jackson Hole (still perhaps my favourite place to ski) and Steamboat Springs. Since moving to London in 2015 I've taken an annual trip to ski Soelden and the other Oztal mountains, Obergurgl-Hochgurgl, Kuhtai and Hochoetz. But my favourite Alps destination probably has to be Trois Vallees (even though my avatar is from the close second, Portes du Soleil).
Really happy to be a part of this great community, especially during this trying COVID times. It's not merely escapist to hang out in a Skiers’ forum, but the threads on all things in the zeitgeist have been insightful, helpful and community-strengthening.
In solidarity with you all back home, and around the globe.
Christopher
I’ve been skiing since I was about 8, in 1987, when my family built a cabin in the Tahoe Donner development, and I progressed from the TD ski hill (which my grandpa, a family practice doctor in Medford, Oregon - originally from the Twin Cities - called the best place to learn he'd ever seen) to ski the steeps, bowls and eventually the off-piste at Squaw, Alpine and Sugar Bowl. During college at Northwestern, I did ski bus trips to Jackson Hole (still perhaps my favourite place to ski) and Steamboat Springs. Since moving to London in 2015 I've taken an annual trip to ski Soelden and the other Oztal mountains, Obergurgl-Hochgurgl, Kuhtai and Hochoetz. But my favourite Alps destination probably has to be Trois Vallees (even though my avatar is from the close second, Portes du Soleil).
Really happy to be a part of this great community, especially during this trying COVID times. It's not merely escapist to hang out in a Skiers’ forum, but the threads on all things in the zeitgeist have been insightful, helpful and community-strengthening.
In solidarity with you all back home, and around the globe.
Christopher
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. I’d recommend Méribel. Courchevel (1850) is mostly a few very posh hotels - 4, 5, and, yes 6 stars (10 in France, 3 in Courchevel). And it’s a ways up from Courchevel 1650 and 1450. Val Thorens I know as apartment rental accommodations. Don’t know about the après-ski there. Méribel, I believe, would have the most accessible mix of hotels, après ski, and restaurants.
(Guessing you meant "non-fun fact".)
