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Verbier / Beginner

Les Esserts, within Verbier itself and well away from the main runs, is ideal for beginners, but progressively more challenging runs are hard to reach; Les Moulins has a special children?s area. 
 
First time skiers can have a good time in Verbier. Les Esserts, within the village, is an ideal starting point for beginners with a 120m magic carpet and snowmaking, well away from the main runs; Les Moulins has a special children?s area. It?s not so simple as skiers progress to more challenging runs: Verbier tends to give you all or nothing, just when you need something in between. And while it?s true that novice skiers can be expert après-skiers, Verbier?s other great selling point ? the high mountain scenery ? will be missed by beginners, though the sunny setting of Verbier itself may be enough to get people back for more.

Best beginner runs in Verbier
The best progressive runs are on Savoleyres and over the ridge into La Tzoumaz. These family-friendly slopes run through trees and keep better snow than the very sunny south facing slopes of Savoleyres. There are plans to develop this area to improve links with Verbier, but even now the runs back to town from the top of Savoleyres are easy meandering blues and there?s also the option of returning by gondola.

Higher up there are good blues at La Chaux; getting there and back can be intimidating, with advanced skiers hurtling by, but the area is now a slow ski zone. There?s also a slow zone from the top of Tournelle down to La Tzoumaz. For the rest of the domain, there are certainly plenty of blue runs in total, but for beginners and early intermediates they might as well be on the moon for all the likelihood of you reaching them ? if you?re staying in Verbier, that?s where you?ll ski; likewise Thyon and all the other bases.

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