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There's a surprisingly extensive ski area too, best suited to intermediates, although hire a guide for a day or two and they will open up some memorable off-piste options.
Intermediate skiers are best served by 20km of relatively empty pistes, though more advanced skiers and snowboarders will enjoy the tight tree runs and lift-accessed off-piste options.
Not only that, but the black run off the top of L'Aiguille Rouge (3,225m) provides an exciting and very varied journey down to Le Pré with (arguably) the longest "vert" in Europe (2,000m), some great off-piste options to the side, and a couple of nice little bars and restaurants to greet you at the end.
Its experiment with the Facebook Home phone which, thanks to Home flopping, never really got off the ground can't have left it feeling good about off-piste options to make its products stand out, either.
The modest 14km of pistes that criss-cross down the mountains into Poiana Brasov itself, are relatively unchallenging for accomplished skiers - although sunrise piste bashers may enjoy the extreme option of cutting down the mountain through the thickly forested off-piste routes.
It is open to "adventurous intermediates" and above, and involves five days of off-piste skiing, steep couloirs and heli-ski options.
Flexible lift and ski pass options including the chance to night ski on snow-cannon maintained pistes.
For advanced skiers, more challenging options can be found on the black run, the Pista dei Campioni, and off-piste (the Norwegian ski team regularly trains here).
See you on the piste.
Off the piste.
(Fausse Piste specializes in Rhone varietals).
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