The lower-key sister to Lime Wood in the New Forest, it rises straight out of the family- and beginner-friendly Belvedere and Mickey pistes, where long button lifts are free.
There's a neon-bright retro party, a hipflask-fuelled night-skiing session and, on the final day, the hosts carve out a champagne-lined dancefloor just off one of the main pistes where TSW's team of DJs dish up the bass-heavy bangers as the sun slides south.
What's more, the pistes are where the few crowds are likely to be found.
Dubbed "the poor man's heli-skiing", the system was invented in North America, where piste-bashers are known as snowcats.
Travel experts suggested people should look to book holidays in the higher resorts where pistes go up to 2,500m and which are less likely to be affected by the unseasonably warm weather.
As one of the few remaining non-skiing Brits, it's the twinkling slopes of concrete on Farringdon Road for me rather than the swooshing pistes of Davos where the World Economic Forum is gathered this weekend in a world record attempt to generate enough hot air (a renewable energy source) to power Geneva for a week.
But we expect the skiing to be joined up, in a lift-linked ski area where each piste is accessible without leaving the mountain.
The chalet is 15 minutes walk from the resort centre and has a wellness area, alpineelements.co.uk Vaujany, France, 1,250-3,330m, 84 lifts, 179km of piste, glacier This is where all three of my children learnt to ski and it was a wonderful place to start.
A few winters later Powder ran a piece about another unknown ski kingdom -- a Valley Y -- where off-piste runs stretched for a vertical mile or more.
Mr Quincy said that the signs and barriers, warning skiers where the official piste ended, were "perfectly within normal procedures".
