{"id":2284,"date":"2017-02-23T19:21:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T18:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=2284"},"modified":"2017-03-17T16:21:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T15:21:40","slug":"march-skiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/features\/march-skiing\/","title":{"rendered":"March skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March is probably my favourite month for skiing, the longer evenings and sunny skies heralding Spring. And, of course, you do tend to get Spring ski conditions &#8211; crusty off-piste, whilst the pistes are icy first thing and slushy at the end of the day. So a good tip is to look for resorts where most of the skiing is high. <\/p>\n<p>No schools in Europe have half term during March this year, so there should be some good bargains for accommodation, particularly family-friendly resorts. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the medium-sized resorts are perfect to visit since they have lower lift pass prices and should have the full extent of their ski area still open.<br \/>\n<ins class=\"bookingaff\" data-aid=\"1255724\" data-target_aid=\"380878\" data-prod=\"nsb\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"auto\"><br \/>\n    <!-- Anything inside will go away once widget is loaded. --><br \/>\n    <a href=\"\/\/www.booking.com?aid=380878\">Booking.com<\/a><br \/>\n<\/ins><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    (function(d, sc, u) {\n      var s = d.createElement(sc), p = d.getElementsByTagName(sc)[0];\n      s.type = 'text\/javascript';\n      s.async = true;\n      s.src = u + '?v=' + (+new Date());\n      p.parentNode.insertBefore(s,p);\n      })(document, 'script', '\/\/aff.bstatic.com\/static\/affiliate_base\/js\/flexiproduct.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\nThese, then, are my top tips for March skiing, all resorts with plenty of altitude:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/saas-fee.php\" target=\"_blank\">Saas-Fee<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/saas-fee.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Ski Saas-Fee\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/nendaz.php\" target=\"_blank\">Nendaz<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/nendaz2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Ski Nendaz\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/celerina.php\" target=\"_blank\">Celerina (Engadine)<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/celerina2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"ski Celerina in the Engadine\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/murren.php\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00fcrren<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/murren.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"528\" alt=\"ski Murren in the Jungfrau\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/flims.php\" target=\"_blank\">Flims<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/flims2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Ski Flims Laax Falera\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/saint-luc.php\" target=\"_blank\">St-Luc<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/chandolin.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chandolin<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/chandolin.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Ski St-Luc and Chandolin\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/crans-montana.php\" target=\"_blank\">Crans-Montana<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/crans-montana.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"ski Crans and Montana\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/silvaplana.php\" target=\"_blank\">Surlej (Engadine)<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/silvaplana.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"ski Surlej, Silvaplana\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/belalp.php\" target=\"_blank\">Belalp<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/belalp.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"ski Belalp and Blatten\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/lotschental.php\" target=\"_blank\">Lauchernalp<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/images\/lotschental.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" alt=\"Ski Lauchernalp in the L\u00f6tschental\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March is probably my favourite month for skiing, the longer evenings and sunny skies heralding Spring. And, of course, you do tend to get Spring ski conditions &#8211; crusty off-piste, whilst the pistes are icy first thing and slushy at the end of the day. So a good tip is to look for resorts where &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/features\/march-skiing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;March skiing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[58,141,24,146,313,19,152,11,32,99,17,314,134,315,28,107,188,187,21,174,37,33,177,113],"class_list":["post-2284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-accommodation-2","tag-bargains","tag-belalp","tag-celerina","tag-chandolin","tag-crans","tag-crans-montana","tag-engadin","tag-family-friendly","tag-high","tag-jungfrau","tag-lauchernalp","tag-lift-pass","tag-lotschental","tag-murren","tag-nendaz","tag-off-piste","tag-pistes","tag-saas-fee","tag-silvaplana","tag-ski","tag-skiing","tag-st-luc","tag-swiss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}