Bulgaria Ski discussion board

Can't believe I've never been Pamporovo before, and so glad I got the chance, such a nice little ski resort..

After having a queue free time at borovets the other week, was a bit of a shock to have 5-10 minute queue all day on the 3 man at Malina, but hopefully that was just the weekend busyness. What's that chairlift all about next to black 3 without any chairs on it, bit annoying it's not open as it's such a bottleneck at Malina.

Have yet to do the wall, just never got round to it... But overall really impressed with the piste selection, and the two blacks 3 & 4, wow they're steep, don't think I've been that scared in a while; even the green runs were steep, and run 7 is ridiculously narrow aha. They really do have a mish mash of chairlifts, very weird, and slow unfortunately... After riding the one man chairlift once with my knees as high as my head, i think the novelty has worn off

As for runs... The open ones were in great condition, a couple of slushy patches and holes on the side where there's water underneath (expected considering how much rain they've had recently!) Number 9 was closed which was advertised on the LED boards next to the chairlifts... But also one of the stoykite runs are closed, although I've skied it, the bottom bit has lots of patches and streams running across it!

But considering the conditions after the torrential rain last weekend and then rain Friday which luckily turned into snow and quite a lot of it, and snowing pretty heavily now, i got so lucky (again!!) and great conditions, bring on the rest of the week

Hopefully now the weekend is out the way, the 3 man at Malina should be fine and not really need that other lift, I did think it looked new! Haven't done red 5, but the 3, 4 & presumeably 5 sshocked me how nice and long they are considering how steep as pamps doesn't have a massive vertical distance in comparison to most other resorts... But am so pleased on the whole with it not sure why there isn't any night skiing though when it's on their website, hmm... Thanks for all the help giving me the persuasion to come to the resort.

Walked into the village tonight from the castle apartments... Can't believe how steep and narrow run 7 is for a green run!! But took no way near as long as expected to get into the centre of the tiny pamporovo village, 15mins each way... Stopped in the Belfry near perelik for some lovely food, didn't see the white hart though???