A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE TRIP
Pure sport/A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE TRIP
Pure sport/ The Guisane Valley offers breathtaking landscapes. Whatever your level of skiing, this trip is an opportunity to learn and improve yourself in these disciplines. The instructors provide you with their experience and advice to help you progress quickly. Accessible from the initiated level. Are you a beginner? Go to the description of our “Learn to Ski in 7 days” package.THE BEST OF THE PRODUCT
- One of UCPA's Full-Time Skiing products
- Ideal for riding, progressing and enjoying
- Personalized advice from your instructor
- The top spot in the Southern Alps
- Accommodation on the snow front
THE BEST OF THE PRODUCT
- One of UCPA's Full-Time Skiing products
- Ideal for riding, progressing and enjoying
- Personalized advice from your instructor
- The top spot in the Southern Alps
- Accommodation on the snow front
Included
- Accommodation and full board
- Serre-Chevalier package valid until the end of your internship
- Ski equipment
- 8 to 9 sessions, 23:00 with instructor
Not Included
- Transport
- Personal equipment
- Complementary insurances
On option
- Arrived the day before
- Accommodation in a double room for 2 people
The program
Day by dayDay of arrival
Breakfast (8:30am to 10:00am), accommodation (in the morning, you have a secure room available to leave your luggage), provision of equipment and your skipass valid from the first day of the course.
The advice of the sports village: we suggest that you arrive before 13:00 to enjoy your first day of vacation, and start sliding.
In the evening, the UCPA staff gives you all the information concerning the supervised sessions that start the next day: constitution of groups, appointment times, highlights of the week.
If you purchased the “arrival the day before” option, we will welcome you between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. If you plan to arrive after 8 pm, please contact the sports village (email or phone) so that we can send you the code for the front door. You will then find an envelope with your name and instructions for finding your room. Dinner is served until 20:30.
During your stay
Group formed on the basis of your affinities, your expectations and your technical level.
For the unsupervised half-day, you are free to ride with your friends or alone, enjoy the resort, rest between two intense skiing sessions...
Technical Level - Beginner
You have already skated for 1 to 3 weeks. You go down green and some blue trails with confidence. You control your speed and your trajectories. You start making parallel ski turns.
This week, your instructor will give you all the advice you need to be comfortable on all the blue runs and some red runs. You will therefore work on your commitment to the track, you will become comfortable on smooth snow and you will test yourself on bumpier snow and slopes in order to integrate the “Mastery” groups of skiers over a future week.
Technical level - Mastery
You have acquired a “Mastery” level because you know how to control your speed and your trajectories on blue tracks and on red tracks when they are well prepared. When the track is bumpy, in hard snow or in powder snow, you are less comfortable... and that's what techniques you will be developing this week with your instructor.
This week, your instructor will develop your ability to evolve with ease on all red slopes (smooth, icy, bumpy) but also some well-prepared black runs in the ski area. This ease on this type of slope will allow you to be in “Confirmed” groups for your future weeks of skiing.
Technical level - Confirmed
You have acquired a “confirmed” level because you evolve with ease on all the slopes of the ski area by controlling your skis, even if you are less comfortable when the terrain is more rugged (bumps, ice, powder...).
The objective of your week will be to now be comfortable on all snow and all slopes (even if you will have to continue sliding to make this ease more fluid), including to touch the “powder” to switch to the next week of vacation to an “Expert” level and why not to an Off-Piste stay.
Technical Level - Expert
You are an Expert because, regardless of the terrain and the snow, you easily and safely combine all types of turns (swaddles and big curves) .Your experience allows you to read the terrain well and to adapt your technique to all the situations you may encounter off-road: steep slopes (up to 35°), bumps, snow of different qualities (deep, tangled, crusted, frozen,...).
This week, enjoy yourself with your instructor who will refine your technique even more, and according to the wishes of the group and the climatic and terrain conditions, will make you discover a nice off-track and the most beautiful runs and spots in the entire ski area.
This formula also exists in Half-Time Ski Pack (12 hours of supervision for 4 to 5 sessions). This formula is well suited if you want to progress with the advice of our instructors, but also have time skiing with friends.
Last day
Check out of your room no later than 13:00.
SPOT
Grand Serre Chevalier ski area
The unique and sunny experience of Serre Chevalier
Serre Chevalier Vallée Briançon is one of the largest ski areas in Europe. Thanks to its numerous furnished spaces and its freestyle courses, beginners and experts alike find what they are looking for. The area has 250 km of slopes (13 green, 35 blue, 30 red, 14 black and 1 snowpark). For fans of off-trail and ski touring, there are many areas to explore: the Cucumelle valley, the Prédu-Bois, the Aravet forest, the wild off-slopes of Monêtier...
Hosting
Accommodation in Grand Serre Chevalier Sports Village
The Serre Chevalier sports village is located at the heart of the practice sites. The rooms are functional and comfortable. They have 4, 5 or 6 beds, with showers and private sinks.
Possibility to book a room for 2 at the time of registration (with supplement), only for stays of 7 days.
ABOUT THE TRIP
Equipment Included
Equipment Included
Address and access
Address and access
Equipment not included
1 jacket and 1 ski pants, 1 or 2 sweaters or fleeces, 1 warm tights, 1 good pair of gloves or mittens (prefer mittens or snowboard gloves, which are larger and more waterproof than regular ski gloves), 1 ski cap, 1 pair of UV filtering sunglasses, 1 pair of UV filtering sunglasses, 1 pair of UV filtering sunglasses, 1 ski mask, 1 high protection sun cream, 1 lip stick.
Bring your own bathroom linen (sheets provided by UCPA).
Equipment not included
1 jacket and 1 ski pants, 1 or 2 sweaters or fleeces, 1 warm tights, 1 good pair of gloves or mittens (prefer mittens or snowboard gloves, which are larger and more waterproof than regular ski gloves), 1 ski cap, 1 pair of UV filtering sunglasses, 1 pair of UV filtering sunglasses, 1 pair of UV filtering sunglasses, 1 ski mask, 1 high protection sun cream, 1 lip stick.
Bring a small padlock to close your closet or to secure your equipment, a water bottle (or a bottle of water), a small backpack in case of meals on the slopes, a lunch box and street shoes.
Bring your own bathroom linen (sheets provided by UCPA).
Physical intensity
You practice a sporting activity throughout the year, on a regular basis or not. But you are able to run for about 1 hour, swim for 30 minutes, or pedal for about 2 hours.
Physical intensity
You practice a sporting activity throughout the year, on a regular basis or not. But you are able to run for about 1 hour, swim for 30 minutes, or pedal for about 2 hours.
Level of expertise
Technical Level - Initiated to Expert
Level of expertise
Technical Level - Initiated to Expert
Open to everyone except beginners, our teams are homogeneous groups for each level.
Restauration
Restauration
Management
Group formed for the week according to your technical level, your affinities and expectations.
Management
Group formed for the week according to your technical level, your affinities and expectations.
Important information
For ecological reasons and energy efficiency, the UCPA center in Serre Chevalier will not open the pool this winter.
Important information
For ecological reasons and energy efficiency, the UCPA center in Serre Chevalier will not open the pool this winter.