Top 5 resorts for guaranteed snow
Article updated every 6 months. Last updated 14th December 2007
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Sean Newsom loves skiing so much that he has made it his job, writing for The Sunday Times as their ski editor. He is also founder of welove2ski.com, the UK's leading specialist ski website.
"Skiing fast in the sunshine with your friends is one of the purest and brightest pleasures I know," he says. "Absolutely everyone should give it a go. If it were up to me they'd be giving ski and snowboard holidays away on the National Health. It would improve Britain's winter well-being in an instant!"
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There's nothing worse than a ski holiday without any snow.
To avoid disappointment, here's our top five resorts where you can pretty much guarantee yourself a snowy time...
Most people know the neighbouring resorts of Lech and Zurs for being posh, but they also get lots of snow - posting the highest snowfall averages of all the A-list Alpine resorts.
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These days, a resort needs a glacier to be guaranteed snow: Hintertux has one of the best - offering 85km of pistes of varying difficulty, and the opportunity to ski nearby Mayrhofen on the same lift pass.
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Obergurgl is another high, cold Austrian resort - this time one that's family family-friendly too. The total number of pistes is limited, but there's always more skiing along the valley at Sölden (see below).
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Sölden's glaciers are sufficiently snowsure to be the venues for the opening races of the World Cup, at the end of October. They were, admittedly cancelled in 2006 because of lack of snow, proving that even glacier resorts can struggle from time to time. But nine times out of ten this is a sure bet, with great nightlife too.
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Tignes has its own glacier too: but the real attraction is all the other skiing to be found here above 2000m. It's an unusually well-rounded package of pistes and powder, and every level of skier and boarder will find something they like here.
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