What do you think makes a great ski resort?

humm cruisy skiing, 1300m, trees and a bumper season sounds like Les Gets (but all of Northern Alps did pretty well this time). Never been but did have a good week in Chatel once, unlimited skiing and great weather. For low altitude and trees Les Houches, Les Contamines (especially when cold and dumping)are difficult to beat. Still there is only so much sense of adventure these places can give you. Get into the glaciers and you have skiing, mountaineering, wilderness all together. Everyone remembers their first VB even if the normal route is not great. Harness, rope, crampons and smiles of peoples face realizing they are doing it are things that get imbedded in the mind. You just don't get that in many resorts. In fact no resort in world has a red run that can touch it for adventure, vertical (factor of 2), length (by a factor of about 5)etc etc. Add in 2nd best pizza restaurant in world (is official), that also claims to have best Tiramisu in world (this I don't doubt) and am really struggling to think of what more a man could want. Obviously at this point Sweden would move up the list but skiing doesn't cut it.

I hate lets get... please don't say that again (fyi LG is just over 1100m)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUvvjYP5aZY

Life is great when you get to ski in the track of your hero's. Read a Marvel Comic or ski Chamonix.

Personally I dont mind anywhere where there is decent snow and the company is good and I can afford a drink up on the mountain...Every resort is different and there are so many caveats to your question ..how well you ski ..how much snow ..how you want to ski(off piste ..piste etc) and how much cash you can blow and how good the company is....try everywhere..Ive been to tiny resorts like Pras de Lys which have stuck in the memory much more than some of the famous ones so keep an open mind..