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You know what helps me to get through this difficult time of waiting for my first ski holiday? Sitting in my armchair with a ski mag, a nice hot cup of chocolate (or wine, but cold), and christmas music!!!! soooo excited Very Happy
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robert, ....you may need to consider getting out more......... Toofy Grin Toofy Grin Toofy Grin
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Have you tried sitting on a chairlift? You can sometimes buy old ones and hang them off the living room ceiling if it's strong enough.

If it isn't strong enough, the ceiling comes down like an avalanche.


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robert_dorling, you could give a snowdome a go as well snowHead
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robert_dorling, I've got a gondola cabin you can have for the right price. You'll have to arrange shipping from southern France. Very Happy
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I've never understood why they're called 'gondolas'. Bubbles and eggs I can understand.
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I think it's because Venetian skiers used to carry their equipment by canal.
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laundryman, no idea but I thought "telecabine" was a bit too poncey for this site.

It's actually identical to this (complete with ski racks and the same colour) but is in my garden not hanging from a cable:


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ben wright, ....surely they must have missed it eventually........ Toofy Grin
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BernardC, the chap in the red jacket was a bit confused for a while.
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ben wright, I use 'gondola' too, along with all the other variations. IF Mrs L were to allow me to buy a gondola, it would be in that colour!
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ben wright wrote:
It's actually identical to this (complete with ski racks and the same colour) but is in my garden not hanging from a cable.

Ah, you have a gondola tree. Does it fall off in autumn?
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Does it stem from a time when they might have been open topped? E.g. open-topped cars were called gondolas, and the name became more generalised? A gondola is a name for an open-topped transport (probably from the Venetion boats) esp. on railways.
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skanky, good theory! There's a curious bucket-like lift at Flaine.
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laundryman, if anyone knows some history of lifts, they might be able to shed some light on it (partly because there's no roof). wink
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David Goldsmith, no but sometimes it shrivels up in cold weather.

laundryman, do you mean a telebenne? Like this one on www.amorzine.com

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do you mean a telebenne?

Those things have always sent a shiver down my spine, they look far too medieval, like some weird torture thing, but hey if they take you the right way up the mountain...
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martski, they move at about the same speed as continental drift. There's one up at La Foux but luckily there are a couple of chairs that you can take to get to roughly the same place and although the top of the 'benne is in the building that the gondola up to the top goes from it's still quicker to take one of the chairs and ski back down to the gondola station.
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they move at about the same speed as continental drift


So do the mountains,... Shocked wink
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As well as Flaine, there are some open ones in a group of 6 (I think) on the way down the mountain from VT. Maybe Les Menuires?
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RachelQ, yes, they cross over the road in Les Menuires - not sure the name of the lift - croisette or reberty I think.
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When I first started skiing, gondolas had a roof but no windows but you sat down in them. You were enclosed by a basic metal shell.
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When I first started skiing, gondolas had a roof but no windows but you sat down in them. You were enclosed by a basic metal shell.


..... and dinosaurs roamed the earth.
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There is another telebenne high on the mountain in Alagna (unless they changed it in the last 2 years)
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skanky, good theory! There's a curious bucket-like lift at Flaine.

When I was in Flaine a few years ago, the holiday rep referred to these as "yogurt pots", which I think is a good descriptive name Toofy Grin
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Alastair Pink, 'Yogurt Pots' must be 'Generic' then...!

They have relations at Peisey Nancroix in Paradiski.....
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They have them going through the town at Alpe d'Huez, although a bit bigger than the ones pictured
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laundryman, as a very noviec skier, I fell off the back of those yougurt pots as I tried to get on.
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laundryman, as a very noviec skier, I fell off the back of those yougurt pots as I tried to get on.


Whereas as an experienced skier you fell off the T-Bar at Castleford NehNeh plus ça change wink
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Helen, .......your untimely departure from the 'pot' has conjured up a very 'Inspector Cluseau type image' ...... Toofy Grin
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BernardC,
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.......your untimely departure from the 'pot' has conjured up a very 'Inspector Cluseau type image' ......


"not now Kato can you not see i am falling from a yoghurt pot? "
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If anyone wants to purchase a used gondola a bit nearer to home, the Heights of Abraham lift at Matlock Bath has updated theirs. When I was there back in the summer, the old ones were lying around in the car-park apparently unloved.

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Whether in a gondola,telecabine on a button lift or T-bar
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and christmas music!!!!
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should not be listened to in october... bah humbug! Do you own a department store that has already overlooked Halloween and Bonfire night and has started playing slade in order to cause me permanent damage Evil or Very Mad ??!!!!!

(But yes I am starting to get excited and we arent going until april!!! wink )
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pielot, normally we get to have a "bah humbug" thread wink We're going on our first trip in February NehNeh
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What gets me excited is seing the snowline start moving down the mountain from my office window!! Cool snowHead

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April is a long way off! Sad
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That's a very high office pielot, you must be very fit climbing all those stairs each day.
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pielot, are you an astronaut?
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Or perhaps some form of deity?
Maybe you are the one that can finaly answer all the 'what will conditions be like on xx/xx/2006' questions.
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