STUDY ABROAD IN ROME....

[shopey1080]

Hey i am currently in a study abroad program based in Rome....I was wondering if anyone on here has done this program and if they went skiing during the fall....I am trying to find the best place and conditions to ski over thanksgiving...Some people told me Italy and others told me Swiss alps....If anyone has any experience with the mountains around here during fall please share!

[Barb]

If you can find a place to ski, great. But you are in Rome for God's sake! Soak in the culture and make the most out of your time there. My friends and I were going to backpack around Europe the summer after we graduated high school and then they all backed out. Once you get old (like me) you don't have time to travel. I hope someone replies to your thread and you find some great snow, but don't ignore where you are, you may never get back there again. Just my two cents. Wow, I really sound old.

[mbike-ski]

thats awesome...i was at temple u rome but spring ('85 ouch thaats old) we set off - about 6 of us, to ski before school started in january but couldn't, was one of the coldest winters on record and most areas were closed - people were literally freezing to death and it took all of our time to travel by rail from luxenbourg to rome. rome actually had like 4-6 inches of snow when we got there (first time in 20 or so years we were told) and kids were sledding on the capitaline. didn't ski during the semester, too much other fun stuff to do but after wards headed from a week on the beach in greece to vienna (crazy town) then kitzbeuhl. it was late may/early june but there was no snow left, locals told us to head to the glacier at kaprun (infamous for the tragic incline fire) so we did. had great spring skiing for 2 days than got dumped on - knee deep plus super light po. my buddy wouldn't go out but i ended up skiing all day with socks on my hands and a sweater tied turban fashion since i had no gloves or hat - the skiing bag man!

 

sorry, i guess that rant didn't help much but it made my day remembering it... i think t*maki did some skiing there and from what i remember it wasn't real easy to get to from rome though...

 

and our original plan in january was the swiss alps... we had a connection in bern (i think) but got snowed in for few days

Edited September 16, 2009 by mbike-ski

[mbike-ski]

i'd like to be there right now!

 

http://www.onthesnow.com/austria/kaprun/skireport.html

[shopey1080]

haha yea im actually in the rome program.....Did you stay at the Residance? Yea i we get a 5 day weekend for thanksgiving soo im trying to make a trip with a couple friends to a good ski resort....I hear the park scene is just up and coming out here? Anyone have any suggestions of where to go...Someone told me to go to interloken? Thanks for the help

 

haha yea im actually in the temple rome program.....Did you stay at the Residance? Yea i we get a 5 day weekend for thanksgiving soo im trying to make a trip with a couple friends to a good ski resort....I hear the park scene is just up and coming out here? Anyone have any suggestions of where to go...Someone told me to go to interloken? Thanks for the help

[mbike-ski]

cool, that was probably the best time of my life... savor every minute. i stayed at villa glori - up via flaminia towards the olympic village. looong walk.

 

top ten memories from rome in no particular order:

getting chased (and caught, in sites of submachine gun) by the caribinieri for ripping down posters

seeing robin zander from cheap trick get pants'ed by a girl while drinking birra rosa in a bar behind the pantheon

watching the mob destroy the city after a world cup semifinal win - forze roma!

coronetti with peroni

huge bar fight while the violent femmes performed jesus walked upon the water

soooooo much architecture and art

the american movie theatre in trestevere

siesta

seeing pat metheny and john mclaughlin/mahavishnu

penne arrabiata, real carobanara

[sibhusky]

I'd recommend you join EpicSki and ask there. There's a number of Europeans on that board who would be more than happy to answer your Europe questions. And they do reply in English..."sort of" sometimes, but they try.

[snorovr]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is no good skiing in Italy. Italy isn't worth the trip as a skiing destination. They don't get snow and tickets were too cheap. Don't go.

Edited September 17, 2009 by T*Maki

[Zonked]

i have a friend that goes to phillyU who is abroad in italy.

don't really have anything to add to the thread tho, sorry lol

[Zonked]

i have a friend that goes to phillyU who is abroad in italy.

don't really have anything to add to the thread tho, sorry lol

[Johnny Law]

Mottarone I think is the closest something like 15 miles, I think though its just for noobs. Tamaro in Switzerland would be pretty close too, like 30 miles. I don't know jack about the place other than the vertical is pretty damn small when compare with what around, maybe 1500ft or so .

 

Skiing in Italy is all about the Dolos - http://www5.dolomiti.it/eng/sci/dx.htm

 

They do it Italian style, laid back with lots of espresso and smoking. Lift lines in Yurp are like cattle shoots in a feed lot, no one waits their turn, its just push push inhale until you get on the chair.

 

I don't know a whole lot about the resorts but Cortina is the catch all, good vert, bigish, lots of snow but tends to stick to the noob side of things.

 

The gnar places that you would actually want to go to are in the Aosta Valley ski complex which contains the following areas; Alagna Valsesia, Breuil-Cervinia, Courmayeur, Cr

[Johnny Law]

Shit I didn't see your post about Inter, Interlaken is the shit the Jungfrau is everything its cracked up to be and more. Grindelwald alone would blow your mind, add in all the shit that's in local area with Wengen and Murren and you could spend a life time there and never get bored. The big boys though are Davos and Sass Fee....shit I gotta run to a meeting but if your thinking of Switzerland let me know and I send you some info.