Sauze d'Oulx 2006

We have been back a week so I thought I best post about our great time in Sauze. The hotel Orso Bianco located in the Sportinia area was the best I have stayed in for location, friendly staff and good food. The rooms are a good size, views spectacular and they have satellite TV. Lots of little touches like a free 3D piste map, complimentary bottles of wine and tea in proper mugs made it a place I would stay at again.

The resort is not the best we have stayed in. Although the area is big, the 5 main villages are not connected in a snowboard friendly manner with ball crushing drag lifts ready to test your pain threshold should you desire. However the snow and off piste were fantastic, plus the queues were short.

I also pulled off one of the main tricks I vowed I would learn when I started snowboarding - a backside 180. We made a little jump near our hotel, with me and Neil practising on it until we could do them. It's one of the simplist tricks to perform (on a board at least) but one that looks great, hence the reason it's popular.

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