Is there anywhere that has Green/Beginner Slopes with Cable car access?

caron-a wrote:
Absolutely. Last year I had to come down the Solaise Express chair lift into Val D'Isere and couldn't use my usual look-up-the-mountain technique. It's an extremely long, steep drop into the village and it didn't help that I was alone. I calmed myself down and looked to the clouds, I was petrified but got through it. Mind over matter.

If at all possible avoid going up on a cablecar that you will have to come down on. I think its much scarier to come down on the cablecar/gondola/seatlift as you are looking down into the valley and it makes it appear a lot higher then it actually is.

In practice this might be a bit difficult, but with some forward planning it should be possible. Most resorts that use cable cars to go up will have a not so steep route back down to the valley. This is not the case everywhere, I know some resorts where it will be a toss up as to which is scarier, but I know others where skiing down would be very enjoyable where the gondola could be a little bit sketchy if you are nervous of heights.

I understand what you're saying but my attitude is that I'm going to beat it, it's not going to beat me so I just deal with every situtation as it arises. I'm obviously making life more difficult for myself :lol: but I'm determined to overcome it.

There have been some excellent suggestions already, but here's another. Is's Arinsal, in Andorra. A gondola lift which is never too high above the ground takes you from the village to the first ski level where there are two or three beginners slopes and then relatively easy progression slopes. Good luck and I hope you have fun anyway!

I actually find that with things you are scared of, doing more of it is the only real way to help get over it. For example, instead of avoiding using cable cars or coming down on them, do it over and over again so that you get used to going on it and actually realising that nothing is going to happen to you. I know what a fear is like, its irrational and you know that you are probably going to be ok, but something makes you panic and tense up and feel sick, and your head tells you that you simply cant do it.
But it is quite simply mind over matter.
To get over my fear of flying, I booked a flight, got on the plane and dealt with it. I have not looked back since. Thats not to say I never felt scared or had bad thoughts on subsequent flights, but I told myself it was all irrational and proved it by getting on (and off the other end) of a plane.
Getting on a chairlift should be a whole lot easier than a plane if you have the fear because if something DID go wrong, the consequences are likely to be far less serious.

Anyway, moving on, and sorry to hijack the thread......

Tony_H wrote:I actually find that with things you are scared of, doing more of it is the only real way to help get over it.

spot on. In the summer we stayed in a hotel with glass lifts and 14 floors. We were only on the fourth floor so rarely used the lift but every so often I'd get in the lift, go to the 14th floor and force myself to look down :shock:. glutten for punishment and all because of skiing :mrgreen:

Megeve, get the Mt Daboir bubble from the Golf club, they hold about6/8 people you have to stand but you don't have to look out of the windows,it takes you to the top by the Igloo hotel and Princess lift station. From here you can ski all the way down to Golf club on a green, whereas a competent skier can use a combination of blues/reds to get back down to the same point. Too much poleing on the green unless you know when to speed up but its very good for beginners.

I dealt with my fear of heights/cable cars by going up the Aiguille du Midi :)

I still hate them, but my desire to ski is greater than my fear - most of the time....

kateshaw wrote:I dealt with my fear of heights/cable cars by going up the Aiguille du Midi :)

I still hate them, but my desire to ski is greater than my fear - most of the time....

We have a winner