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General Overview of Sestriere
What we have then is a ski area with a great, if not a particularly
beautiful accommodation structure and ambiance and a lot of different
grade slopes and surrounding villages on the same lift pass.
This ski area is known as "The Milky Way" and
besides Sestriere it includes the villages of Sauze d’Oulx, Sansicario,
Cesana, and Claviere and the French resort
of Montgenevre. This by the way is the very same pass that Hannibal took
with his elephants when he and his marauding armies invaded Italy.
The skiing for the most part is best suited
to those with either no experience or confidence and those with modicum
quantities of same. Experts, in fact, may be wanting.
Nonetheless, this is a formidable ski area
for most weekend warriors or those wanting to hone their existing
skills. Sestriere has probably the greatest portion of the challenging
skiing with, if memory serves, Sauze D' Oulx having the greatest portion
of easy slopes.
The "Banchetta" is the steepest of Sestriere’s slopes. Here is where the
most of the world cup races were held.
Looking around the web, for some reason there
is precious little information about Sestriere that is easy to find on
the Web. Strange, that. Especially when one considers that the place is
supposed to be promoting itself and the 2006 Olympics. The village, in
fact, will host most of the athlete’s quarters and will be the center of
most of the winter games. What would the brilliant Sgr. Agnelli have to
say about that?
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