 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi, is the aeroski being replaced upgraded, thought I saw something on here or the Internet somewhere but damned if I can find it again. The le lac and toviere webcams are off for works on the lift but can't find any other information or webcams covering the lift.
Anyone?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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When I was there a couple of weeks ago, there were signs up around the bottom of the Aeroski saying that a replacement is indeed being built. Pretty sure the signs said that it would be completed in time for next season.
I'm sure a Tignes local will be along soon to confirm.
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For the non-Francophones, that site confirms that the Aeroski is to be replaced in time for next winter.
New lift will go to/from the same places, but the top and bottom stations will be modified. Bottom station will be at ground level, instead of the current raised-up, climb-the-stairs arrangement. Top station will be underground and access to the snow will be by lift and escalator (which seems a bit weird).
The new lift will have 10-man, seated cabins.
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stevomcd, any idea how that's going to affect this summer's mountain biking? I can't find any sign of a lift/trail map as yet...
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Oooo seats that's a luxury. My legs are normally jelly by the time I've come down from toviere at pace.
And I'm so unfit chairs, gondalas, etc must have somewhere for seating my fat ass 
Never understood standing lifts.
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Harrison Le Lapin, I think they are going to open up the Tufs with bike racks. From the artists impressions the bottom station will be a bit lower (towards the kids ski school), the top station will be in a similar position but you will arrive in a building dug into the hillside - if you can visualise it you will come off the Tommeuses lift and ski over the top of the Aeroski top station - all v James Bondesque. Overall stats are €13m, 10 seater gondolas - so a rest - but will only take 5 mins rather than 8 so that all evens out! And with new technology and the building at the top it will work on much higher windspeeds (24 m/s rather than 16 IIRC)
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| I think they are going to open up the Tufs with bike racks |
That's good news for us summer visitors to Val Claret  !
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| chocksaway wrote: |
| Harrison Le Lapin, I think they are going to open up the Tufs with bike racks. |
Good news. Thanks. The Aeroski was surprisingly easy to get a bike stuck inside. Don't ask me how I know this. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Think I passed some of the bubbles going the other way on the back of a truck on the Moutiers/Albertville roadon my way home from Grenoble today...
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Or go here to watch it live:
http://www.tignes.net/en/skiing-in-tignes/webcams-290.html#Webcam_HD_Lac_-_2100_m_-
The old foundations seem to be putting up a fight (11-July-2013)
The information board at the summit (Touviere) says the new lift will be faster and have less pylons. The new gondolas will only have a similar capacity to the aeroski.
The problem with the original aeroski is that it had a low tolerance to cross-wind which is why it was often closed.
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You know it makes sense.
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New pylons up....
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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Cable nearly done and I see cabins....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| I think they are going to open up the Tufs with bike racks |
Which was the case this summer. IMO a big improvement for Val Claret residents in that it saves riding down to Le Lac to access the biking lifts.
They are certainly putting the lift up at a pace! Snow forecast above 2700m this weekend - so they'd better keep cracking on!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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It's looking good, I can see all the gondolas waiting to be put on.
Those Frenchies can work fast when they want to.
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| HoneyBunny wrote: |
It's looking good, I can see all the gondolas waiting to be put on.
Those Frenchies can work fast when they want to. |
More like those Austrians from Doppelmeyer
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chocksaway,  yep
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| chocksaway wrote: |
| HoneyBunny wrote: |
It's looking good, I can see all the gondolas waiting to be put on.
Those Frenchies can work fast when they want to. |
More like those Austrians from Doppelmeyer |
really? most likely Austrians made bits and pieces in AT, while Frenchies are digging and putting it together in France. Let's not forget - 2-3 inches of snow and the whole of the UK stops, while a 20-30 inches and Frenchies are cleaning it all up and the country runs again in a couple of hours
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1st cabin on. Bet they want to get on with it as it must be a bit nippy at the top of Toviere 
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mooney058,
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while a 20-30 inches and Frenchies are cleaning it all up and the country runs again in a couple of hours
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Have you been in Nord Pas-de-Calais when it snows ? Looks (and lasts) a lot like Kent 
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mooney058, I wasn't actually stereotyping (for once - and I admit my post could easily be read that way) more reporting the influx of Doppelmeyer workers into Tignes with every new lift (often in the Alpaka). Hopefully when its finished we will have a grand opening and fireworks (as we had when the Palafour opened).
Now for a stereotype - there are 450 000 French capitalists - 400 000 live in London and 50 000 in the Alps 
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Couple of gondolas hanging from the wires this afternoon.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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The problem with the original aeroski is that it had a low tolerance to cross-wind which is why it was often closed.
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Is the new gondola going to be more tolerant of high wind I wonder?
I hope the Aeroski was given a decent burial as it served us well for a couple of decades. Wouldn't be surprised if they market the old gondola as 4 person studio apartments.
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You know it makes sense.
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Are those telecabins I see on the (partially dismantled ) tennis courts in Val Claret? Where might they be bound (are they the old aeroski bubbles, perhaps)?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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davehk, definitely look like the old bubbles
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Poster: A snowHead
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definitely look like the old bubbles
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Are they fitting balconies to them?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nope. 2 sets of bunk beds in each
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Nope. 2 sets of bunk beds in each
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Found them advertised on skisardine.com...Apartments Roland Garros d'Aeroski. 'New luxuriously appointed cosy 4 person apartments. 360 degree panoramic views. Integral ceiling hatch for star viewing. Step straight from sliding doors onto sheet ice. Built in ladder to roof terrace. Swaying forbidden.  '
The 50 euro per person per night under-occupancy supplement is a killer!
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