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Nov 2017
12:14pm, 6 Nov 2017
18,640 posts
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Meglet
I've no idea about beginners, but a colleague of mine goes to Norway. It looks amazing.
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Nov 2017
12:17pm, 6 Nov 2017
37,107 posts
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Velociraptor
The main ski tour operators offer "learn to cross-country" in some resorts; it would be worth searching on their websites as the packages include kit hire and tuition.
(It's something I'd like to learn to do, but only if I could afford to do it in addition to downhill, not instead.)
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Nov 2017
12:46pm, 6 Nov 2017
6,496 posts
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Jambomo
Great, thanks for the suggestions, I'll go have a look 
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Nov 2017
2:33pm, 6 Nov 2017
12,720 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
MrsC and I learned to XC ski in Norway (place called Geilo). The next year we joined a group of European adventurers (German, Dane, Norwegian & Brit) on a Winter skills course run by the DNT which included trekking miles across the mountains using tracks and some off-track traversing too, staying in wee huts in the middle of nowhere. It was absolutely brilliant. Norway is amazing for XC.
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Nov 2017
8:19am, 7 Nov 2017
6,497 posts
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Jambomo
Thanks for your suggestion, I had a look and Geilo looks like the sort of place I was looking for
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Nov 2017
12:17pm, 11 Nov 2017
5,674 posts
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Wobbling
My brother has booked his first skiing holiday for his family. I’m so excited for them, they’ve never skied before.
They’re going to Stöten in Sweden and from looking at the piste map it looks like there’s a reasonable amount of xc trials for beginners.
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Nov 2017
8:01pm, 12 Nov 2017
12,738 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
I think ski holidays are just the best for active families. It’s the one thing we can do with the kids where we can all keep up. Plus the scenery, plus the food, plus the ... everything.
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Nov 2017
8:02pm, 12 Nov 2017
37,137 posts
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Velociraptor
One of my all time favourite holidays was when we went to Wengen with four teens and a nipper. I was dreading it beforehand, but we had a great time.
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Nov 2017
9:42am, 23 Nov 2017
32,003 posts
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McGoohan
Hello peeps. I might have asked this question before but...
I have two sons both at Uni (different ones) and keen skiers. Youngest has spare cash and is going with his Uni to France in just over a week. Eldest has no cash and has decided he can't go on his Uni trip and is feeling miserable about it.
I was wondering if anyone has experience of skiing in Scotland? Aviemore/Cairngorm sort of area. It might be easier getting there for a long weekend or even a midweek break. The webcams for Cairngorm already show quite a lot of snow (so long as that's not just a still they took last winter!) Is it reasonably reliable snow-wise? I.e. does the snow hang about?
My wife used to live in Scotland but didn't enjoy the skiing so much due to the frequency of the rain! Still, I thought it might be a way for him to get a bit of skiing in...
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Nov 2017
11:15am, 23 Nov 2017
29,993 posts
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alpenrose
A friend a few years ago gave up going skiing in Europe and fell in love with going to Scotland for all their skiing hols.
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