Snowsure: 2.4
- Occasionally gets enough snow for skiing
- Is often closed due to a lack of snow
- Occasionally suffers from a lack of snow
- Rarely suffers from a lack of snow
- Serra da Estrela is snowsure even in the poorest seasons
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March 20, 2010
Nuno from
Portugal
Nuno from
Portugal
Our office is modest. However, where there will come a belly full of skiing. My level is medium / low and I am well aware that I have in Sierra (Serra da Estrela) optimal support in order to evolve. The tracks are not long or offer great difficulties, but are insufficient to establish the technique and is there at your fingertips. Despite the natural limitations is much that can be improved, for example quality and excellent staff very polite and always ready to help.
March 20, 2010
lourenço from
Portugal
lourenço from
Portugal
Start by saying I'm Italian, so sorry for any mistakes! I learned to ski at 3 years and has always been a passion that led me to visit many wonderful (and cold) sites in Europe and elsewhere. Now, make people laugh who want to compare the Sierra with the Alps or the Pyrenees! You hear a case by Swiss complain that in Switzerland there are no conditions for surfing? We are in a low-Serra, ha 50Km from the sea ... I think already very nice that in this small country fantastic back, it can be possible to put on your skis! PS: when the Sierra snow and suddenly come to be very difficult to clean is the lack of resources (justified by comparing the use per year!) is to be a snow totally different from that of the Alps: it is much heavier and wet!
February 01, 2010
Segismundo from
Pakistan
Segismundo from
Pakistan
It is always sad to verify that Portugal maintains the provincialism singularities of an undeveloped country: everywhere else, when it snows, the ski resort stations open; in Portugal, when it snows, the only ski resort station we have, closes, because the roads that access it are not cleared of the snow and those in charge of them, instead of continuously working on the snow removal and salt spreading - as it happens everywhere else - simply shut the traffic on said roads, prohibiting the access to the station.
And they do it with a particular - so typically Portuguese – satisfaction, the use of the little power they have to condition the others lives (they even give interviews boasting their sense of responsibility, the road accidents and consequent injuries they manage to avoid). They blame our snow of being very heavy, that the roads that access the ski station are dangerous, that the altitude is too high, that Portuguese drivers are not used to drive in the snow... Well, in Spain, France, Italy, Swiss, Austria, etc., with much higher altitudes, with much more abundant snow falls, the truth is that the roads that access the ski stations are rarely closed, because they are continuously cleared, 24/24, by the snowplough trucks. And the police effectively controls that only cars with the adequate snow-chains can pass.
But not in Portugal: it snows, the roads are shut, the traffic prohibited and the problem is solved. Then, in the next day or so, usually when the conditions are excellent to ski, no one can use the roads because they are finally being cleared, which, of course, takes much more time and effort because they let the snow accumulate.
At Serra da Estrela, precisely due to its relatively low altitude, lack of snow and the frequent above zero degrees conditions, with frequent heavy rain that damages the snow, it is very important to have the roads always cleared to allow the skiers to immediately enjoy the snow, until it lasts (usually one or two days after an important snowfall).
Well, it is the country that we have. Mediocre and backward.
If the government agency in charge of the roads that access the ski station cannot assure their clearance, for whatever reason (lack of personnel, lack of trucks, etc.), it should transfer said responsibility to the concessionaire of the station, demanding its achievement under the penalty of termination of the concession contract. Obviously, as the concessionaire is the first to be interested in keeping the station opened, you would see that the roads would always be cleared, clean and opened and the ski station ready to work after a big snowfall.
October 29, 2008
Hugo from
Portugal
Hugo from
Portugal
Estrela is a very nice mountain with a very beautiful landscape, but the ski park is not bad for snowboarders, because we have the snow-park always in good conditions when the conditions let, they build it good (thanks chico, I defend that resort must be split in 2 parts, skiers and snowboarders / freeskiers and freesnowboarders. that means half snowpark, they could build it in the middle of the tracks and that fix skiers problem ;) they don't like snowboarders (old American fashion) and we don't like your way you ride G-i-Joe style but what matters is that we get fun on snow and enjoy nature
November 02, 2006
serraman from
Portugal
serraman from
Portugal
October 28, 2006
Who cares from
Portugal
Who cares from
Portugal
February 02, 2006
Pedro Freire from
Portugal
Pedro Freire from
Portugal
Well, I have to say that Margarida wrote a pretty arrogant comment. Margarida, I am sorry but your English level is not better than the ones who wrote in English as well. This is a place where you write about Serra da Estrela and not about other people's language skills. Please do yourself a favor, and write a better comment, because that one just made me obnoxious.
Serra da Estrela is a very nice place to visit during the Summer and during the Winter. Over the Winter, sometimes the mountain gets pretty high levels of snow, which makes people climb up for a snowboard day. It's not more than this. Most of the time they only have 4 or 5 rails available, that makes your day less enjoyable. Regardless of that, for beginners and people who just want to have a day of fun it's perfect. You should visit the website www.turistrela.pt and look for more information. Nice landscapes over there too... any questions just e-mail me to [email protected]
I am actually from Lisbon, but go there pretty often, so any questions, I am highly motivated to answer them.
Take care everyone, and enjoy our biggest and only ski resort in Portugal!
January 08, 2006
LOuro from
Portugal
LOuro from
Portugal
Margarida go for a walk. If we don´t write good English what can we say about you. About serra da estrela, I´m thinking in go their next week, just for one day, to snowboard! I am from Lisbon and I will take 3 hours to arrive their, I think that this snow station is just good to beginners and just for one day fun. If you want really snow go to the ALPS and Pirineus.
January 08, 2006
António from
Portugal
António from
Portugal
Small, but well equipped; Suitable for day-trips only. For longer stays, I woulod reccommend Sierra de Bejar, only an hour and a half away, but with over 30 km of pistes. Oh and Margarida, one should write 'yourselves' not 'youselves', 'it is', 'do not', and 'you are', rather than 'it's, don't and you're', and 'such bad' instead of 'so bad'. (Para a próxima, não te armas em esperta!)
January 04, 2006
Margarida from
Portugal
Margarida from
Portugal
Please do youselves a favour: if you can't write good english, please write in portuguese. It's too painful to see the way you write so bad things about one of our greatest touristic spots ( it's poor..ok, that's the country we have, right? )Bye, see you in Serra da Estrela.. and don't forget: write in portuguese, you're too bad at english, believe me!
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