Skiing Vs Snowboarding: What Should I Try First at La Tania? 

If you’re thinking about going to La Tania for the first time, you may be wondering what activity would be best to try: Skiing or Snowboarding? 

While both activities revolve around descending a snow-covered slope, the skills required and the apparatus you use differ dramatically. 

In this guide, we’ll break down the advantages of both, as well as some beginner tips, so you’ll be able to ride down the slopes of La Tania in confidence. 

Why Are Skiing and Snowboarding so Popular? 

Skiing and snowboarding are incredibly popular activities done by approximately 200 million people globally. Their popularity spills over from the slopes into films, books and even the world of iGaming, with players enjoying winter-themed online slot games, such as Slingo Fire and Ice, alongside opportunities to discover the 12 Pots of Gold Drums slot and similar games. 

It has been estimated that global audiences for skiing and snowboarding events can be around 5.82 billion, demonstrating just how popular these activities are. 

For watchers of the sport, they get to enjoy top athletes competing at the top of their game. For people who actively partake in skiing or snowboarding, they combine a huge rush of adrenaline with the beautiful scenery of mountain nature. 

However, the question is, what is the best to choose: skiing or snowboarding? 

Advantages of Skiing 

It is often stated that skiing is an easier sport to learn for beginners. This is because the forward-facing stance you have to adopt is intuitive, so people get to grips with how it works more easily.

The use of poles also makes it easier to walk through the mountain or skate across flat resort pathways. At La Tania, Plan Fontaine is the green run for beginners, which acts as an easily accessible slope, and also offers beautiful views of pine trees as you descend down to the centre of the village. 

For safety, your two independent planks give you two separate edges for better grip and safety on icy slopes, which may also suit beginners better. However, there are also many advantages to snowboarding. 

What You Should Know About Snowboarding 

While snowboarding may be more difficult to learn than skiing initially, it is actually easier to master. Learning it can also give you a lot of different transferable skills, as the balancing mechanics are very similar to surfing, wakeboarding, or skating.

There is also less equipment, as you only need to carry your board, and don’t need to use poles or two loose skis.  

Snowboarders can also begin their first snowboard run at the Plan Fontaine run at La Tania. However, if they begin to get to grips with how it works, they can start to move on to more advanced runs, such as Folyères – a Blue Run, which is wider and has a lot of natural jumps.