Activity ratings

To help you choose the most appropriate holiday for your needs all our winter snow holidays are graded for difficulty, experience and level of fitness required. The activity ratings are show on individual holiday pages, and you can also use our holiday finder to help you choose.

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Snowshoe and activity holidays

Leisurely:
Easy activities requiring a little physical effort for a relatively short amount of time.

Moderate:
Relatively full days, with 3-4 hours or physical activity per day.

Challenging:
Full days in the outdoors, with walks or activities lasting up to 4-6 hours per day.

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Winter walking holidays

Leisurely:
Easy activities requiring a little physical effort for a short amount of time.

Moderate:
Relatively full days, with 4-5 hours of physical activity per day.

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Cross country skiing holidays

Beginners:
Recommended for beginners, or those who feel the need to improve basic techniques. We teach you the essentials and explore gently undulating terrain. All or most skiing is on prepared tracks (loipe. More experienced skiers are welcome, but the pace will be set for the beginners. Towards the end of the holiday you might ski 10-15km or more a day, at a gentle pace.

Intermediates and confident beginners:
A mix of flat and hillier terrain. Grade 2 weeks are for people who have enjoyed a Grade 1 holiday, grasped the snowplough and now want to improve tachnique. We ski a little more quickly and over more challenging ground than on a grade 1 trip. Acceptable for newcommers to cross-country skiing, but you should be very fit and have experience of other sports that develop balance - ice-skating, roller-skating or downhill skiing. Most of the skiing will be on tracks but there may be some off-track skiing.

Intermediates (unsuitable for beginners):
On these holidays there is now enough flat terrain for us to accept beginners. Suitable for clients who have done a couple of weeks with us, have developed their snowplough and can cope fairly confidently with undulating track.

Advanced:
Choose this level if you can tackle 'ups and downs' compentently, manage a contorlled snowplough descent, and if you want to ski at a lively pace. You should also be able to get up switly and easily by yourself after a fall. The mix of track and off-track skiing varies.