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Grenade Predator Jacket $174.95 The Predator Jacket from Grenade. This particular jacket rocks an infra-red vision print, sergent’s bars, it’s lined and it’s made by Grenade, so you know they hooked you up with the necessities…. |
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Red Aletta Women’s Snowboard Helmet $86.95 The Aletta women’s snowboard helmet from Red. The pinnacle of women’s fit and performance. Helium-huffing headpiece meets the micro-adjustability of Red’s new Air Band 270 Fit System, with a… |
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Red Avid Snowboard Helmet $55.95 The Avid Snowboard Helmet by RED is a minimalist masterpiece, packaging Red’s Air Pad Fit System and one-handed vent controls for convenient heat release in a smooth and clean design. Lightweight,… |
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Red Hi-Fi MIPS Snowboard Helmet $104.95 The Hi-Fi MIPS Snowboard Helmet by Red is the Red team favorite, and has been for over ten years, and the HI-FI has progressed with the best. Featuring, RED’s most recent safety feature, MIPS,… |
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Red Hi-Fi Snowboard Helmet $69.95 The Hi-Fi Snowboard Helmet from Red. A Red team favorite for over ten years, the HI-FI has progressed with the best. Customized comfort with Red’s Air Band 180 Fit System, removable ear pads and… |
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Red Impact Wrist Guard $29.95 The Impact Wrist Guard from Red. |
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Red Mutiny Snowboard Helmet $62.95 The Red Mutiny Snowboard Helmet from Red. Red’s lowest profile lid has a brim that flawlessly fits goggles, plus hidden vents that keep your dome cool and your goggles clear. |
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Red Pure Women’s Snowboard Helmet $55.95 The Red Pure Women’s Snowboard Helmet is sophistication without the frills. The Pure integrates RED’s Air Pad Fit System and one-handed vent controls for full-free heat release. Clean,… |
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Red REDPhones $34.95 The REDPhones from Red. |
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Red Total Impact Wrist Guard (Closeout) $41.95 The Total Impact wrist guard from Red. |
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3-Board Snowboard/Wakeboard Kiteboard/Shortboard-Surfboard Wall Rack This 5-Board Padded Wall Rack is constructed of STAINED DOUGLAS FIR and durable polyvinyl-chloride rods, which are covered with foam padding. The rack attaches to studs in the wall and it is very STRONG! It will hold heavy longboards and sailboards, as well as shortboards, kiteboards, snowboards, skis, and wakeboards. Rung rods are 18″ long. Rung rods are spaced 7 1/2″ apart. Rung Rods angle 25 de… |
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And On The 8th Day God Created SNOWBOARDS Mug for Coffee / Hot Beverage (choice of sizes and colors) T-ShirtFrenzy offers over 30,000 designs on tons of products to offer millions of variations. You can search our store for something for everyone on your gift list or shop for yourself (our personal favorite). Please contact us with questions…. |
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It’s Hard to be Humble When you SNOWBOARD Mug for Coffee / Hot Beverage (choice of sizes and colors) T-ShirtFrenzy offers over 30,000 designs on tons of products to offer millions of variations. You can search our store for something for everyone on your gift list or shop for yourself (our personal favorite). Please contact us with questions…. |
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Out Cold – Music From the Motion Picture $11.98 The well known (Foo Fighters), barely known (Jack Johnson), and virtually unknown (Andrew WK) are all represented to fine effect on this predominantly modern-rock-leaning dozen-song soundtrack. As befitting the flick’s snowboard theme, most of the cool cuts are by pop-punky sporty faves such as Lit (whose edgy and melodic “Lipstick and Bruises” is the single), Eve 6 (with a dynamic new song, “Anyt… |
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P-Tex, Lies & Duct Tape $11.99 In the spirit of our last release (Groove Requiem) this exhilarating movie takes the concept one step further, uniting rich cinematography with unforgettable music in a mesmerizing mix…. |
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Master Lock 4605D 3-Foot Retractable Cable Lock (colors may vary) $7.99 Set your own combination for personalization and easy recall. 36″ L. x 3 32″ diameter. Cable retraction for a tight fit around object. Vinyl coated cable to prevent scratching. Push button retraction for easy cable recoiling. Great for kids…. |
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Master Lock 4603D 24-Inch Retractable Cable Lock, 1 Pack, Colors May Vary $8.88 The Pit Stop Cable Lock with “push button” retractable cable is perfect for use on sports bags, golf bags, skis, inline skates, and bikes. It’s quick and easy to use security with a plug-in click connector and resettable combination lock…. |
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Dakine Micro Lock $13.00 Wrap your board, skis, or bag with the retractable cable of the Dakine Micro Lock and protect your precious gear from thieves in the night … or day. A compact design easily slides into a pocket so you can lock down your goodies at the lodge or parking lot without having to head back to your car. Set your own code on the three-digit combination lock and keep those sticky-fingered bandits busy gue… |
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Art of Flight DVD BD $22.49 Brain Farm & Red Bull Brain Farm and Red Bull presents The Art of Flight 2012 – If someone has ridden it before, the intensity isn’t as great. With the Art of Flight, follow snowboarders: Travis Rice, John Jackson, Mark Landvik, Scotty Lago, Jake Blauvelt, Nicolas Muller, Gigi Ruf, DCP and Pat Moore as they travel the world to battle the most extreme mountains on the planet. With an arsenal of the… |
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That’s it That’s All Blu-Ray $21.95 Quiksilver in association with Red Bull present That’s It, That’s All, a Brain Farm production. Amid the never-ending mission to find the next adventure comes a snowboard film that opens doors to the possibilities. Travis Rice and a dream-team crew set out on a seek-and-destroy operation for the new zone, the new trick and the new perspective on the sport…. |
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Skiing and Snowboarding in the Pyrenees
This global warming is proving to be a bit nippy, there have been record snowfalls all across Europe in November 2008 which has meant that everywhere is enjoying a bumper start to their season on the slopes and the Pyrenees in the South of France is no exception. We have already had some great skiing in the Pyrenees and with the snow falling as I write the expectations are high for plenty more.
The Pyrenees is not the first place anyone thinks of when they are thinking about their next skiing vacation, more often it is the Alps that gets the first consideration whether that is France, Austria, Italy or Germany. But boy, we may have had some snow but it’s certainly not raining Euro’s so there may be a few people out there who are interested in a cost effective way to go skiing where the prices are a little more reasonable.
Most people know about Andorra and the fact that it is one of the cheapest places to ski, helped by a tax free economy there are some great deals to be had and actually two of the main resorts there, Casa de la Pasa and Soldeu are only about 1/2 an hour or so from the resorts I am going to talk about here, Monts d’Olmes and Ax Les Thermes both of which lie in the French Pyrenees about an hour and a half south of Toulouse. So if you did fancy an excursion into Andorra from here, as long as you are prepared and have some transport its definitely not out of the question.
Located where they are, there are plenty of options for getting to both resorts, Monts d’Olmes and Ax Les Thermes, including flying into Toulouse or Carcassonne, getting a train or a bus and that’s not to mention the driving option, hire car or otherwise.
It has to be said that Monts d’Olmes is not that well known and tends to be used by the locals rather than the ski package tour operators, but it’s not a bad little resort and would be great as a family skiing location where there are a range of skill levels from beginner to intermediate. If you are a serious advanced skier or snowboarder then I would say with only 2 black runs and as many greens as reds then this would not be the place for you. But for beginners and intermediates, or families looking for a place where it is relatively easy to keep in touch with one another then it’s worth consideration.
The resort is at a fairly low altitude so there is a need to check the snow forecasts and conditions and to have a contingency plan if the snow does get a bit sparse, it can also be a bit tricky on the mountain roads if a snow storm comes in so it is a good idea to be prepared with an appropriate vehicle, snow chains or by using the bus service to get there, all these options are easily accommodated at varying levels of cost.
The first contingency plan has got to be Ax Les Thermes which is just down the road from Foix on the way to Andorra, it is a much larger resort and has 28 runs (7 more than Monts d’Olmes) and approximately 80 km’s of pisted slopes. It is also slightly higher by about 400m, but this can make all the difference in terms of snow consistency. Another serious benefit of Ax Les Thermes is that it can be accessed from the main road to Andorra via a gondola straight out of the town avoiding the need for driving up and down a mountain road, although that option is there if you want to take it.
The runs at Ax Les Thermes are much longer and provide a better mix for the advanced level winter sports enthusiast with 5 blacks and 10 reds to select from, also with a further 8 blues and 5 greens this resort can cater for all levels of skiing ability and is a good place for beginners and intermediates as well. I suspect that the boarders would enjoy the snowpark in the Saquet sector which is one of the 3 sectors that make up the Ax 3 Domaines skiing resort, the other 2 are Bonascre and Campels.
Both resorts are enjoying the great snow that arrived in November 08 and Ax Les Thermes in particular has had all it’s slopes and lifts open since the beginning of December, Ax Les Thermes has a good mix of gondolas, chairs and draglifts which means if you really want to you can save all your energy for the skiing and still get the degree of difficulty you are looking for. Monts d’Olmes on the other hand has only one chairlift and the rest of the lifts are of the drag variety, that said the chair takes you almost to the top so you can get a good run all the way to the bottom via blues and reds back to the chair.
Ski passes can be bought from increments of 1/2 days up to several days and you should obviously check out the tarriffs for the best deals, there are special family days (1/2 days excluded) and student passes are available at reduced cost. Ski equipment, snowboarding equipment and toboggons are all available for hire at reasonable cost and in the case of Ax Les Thermes you can get your equipment either in town or you can wait until you get up to Bonascre where the first of the slopes is available.
For apres ski, Ax Les Thermes has a lot to offer, being a spa town with hot springs it is just as well visited in the summer as it is in the winter and so there are plenty of facilities on offer including shops, bars, restaurants and cafes. You could probably get a hot tub somewhere as well if you wanted, I have never actually done that but it is a spa town so I am sure there will be facilities somewhere in the town.
I hope you have found this review useful and that it has given you a flavor for a couple of my local ski resorts in the Pyrenees, I have skied in a few different places and countries, including Austria, Italy, Bulgaria, Germany and Canada but I can honestly say that I have enjoyed my skiing here as much as anywhere else, obviously there will be personal favorites but as far as I am concerned as long as you look for the positive and don’t get too hung up over minor irritations you can enjoy any resort.
You can get further information and details on skiing in the Pyrenees on my website Skiing and Snowboarding in the Pyrenees and if you need some help with finding flights and travel information to Europe you can visit my travel advice page on French Travel Advice which has some very useful information for France and Europe generally, whether you are flying, driving or looking to go by rail.
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About the Author
Visit Ski Pyrenees to access all the information you need for the resort, the skiing levels, piste map, webcams and more.
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