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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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was mentioned this evening on the birthday bash thread.
but not the anal bit.
and it certainly needed at least new cabins.
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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?
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I recognise the name of this, but for the life of me I can't picture where it is, after all these years of being on the b'day bash and all.
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jonm, the gondola from Selva coming back over to Colfosco/Corvara
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Is that the one where you have to walk through town and there's a bridge over the main street to get to it? (Knowing my bump of direction, it's probably in a completely different village. I can only hope that Thumbstruck isn't reading this: I believe he thinks I'm even more useless than his wife at orienting myself, and that's saying something.  )
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kind of. shouldn't be much of a walk thru town. you go over the bridge, pop your skis back on on rubber mat, and take a chairlift. that takes you to a short piste down to the gondola bottom station.
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Ok, I think I know where it is now, ta.
Pedantica, 
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maggi, 
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It looks like the new Dantercepies lift takes a different route and will have a "middle station" although I doubt that any of us will use it. I reckon it would be mainly for folk coming up from Selva who don't want to ski the steeper parts of the run at the top.
The bad news, in my view, is the worry that the Cir run is going to be closed due to landslip problem earlier in the year. One of my favourites and it won't be the same without it. Seems to be talk of having to put up some kind of retaining wall around the top of it, not sure if there is in reality time for that before the next season.
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last pics I saw seemed to show decent progress on the top and bottom stations, but the mid station looked a bit "behind".
impression I got from an italian forum was that the wall would be built before the ski season starts, since the skier throughput would be too high on just 1 red run.
getting the lift working is by far the most important task, imho.
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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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Looks to me like the cabins are the same as the old ones. Not sure how we'll get ten people in there! 
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You know it makes sense.
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pic #120 on that link above? they'll be the old cabins.
I was guessing the new ones will be like Corvara-Boe or maybe like the other lift from Selva (maybe 1 cabin size down from that?).
Hoping they pull some fingers out on that midstation.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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looks like a tiny bit of progress is being made
and the new cabins are there now (ignore previous post, cos the pic numbering is back to front).
shocking quality images, but there is a little bit more than foundations at the midstation, and looks like pylons are up... http://www.funivie.org/cantieri/thumbnails.php?album=319
8 weeks or so... if it's not finished it'll make it interesting navigating round the sella ronda.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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So do you think there is there going to be a piste down the track of the old lift, or just an unofficial way down there?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Think there might need to be, if all full loop traffic has to go one way
Must be snowing there now? That'll give them an incentive to pull their finger out.
Think there's an official new unmaintained piste under (or alongside) one of the other lifts (Bec de Roces?). Think they probably dug out the tree stumps and fencing from a route that people used to ski anyway.
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Which side is the cir piste if you are skiing down from the top?
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Other future lift rumours in the vicinity...
Cablecar from Alba up to the top of Canazei-Belvedere (assume from near the Alba-Ciampac cable car up to near where the Belvedere cable car ends). That'll take 2 years though, opening Dec 2015.
The 2-way lift in Corvara is still shown as official from 2014 as an 8 seater gondola (not sure if that'll replace the next chair too, or mid station maybe?, along the valley of mostly ski lifts one way)
Thought Cir was the black on the right hand side as you face down towards Selva? Almost always go that way - it's not a difficult black, and it's much less busy, than the red way.
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andy, "Thought Cir was the black on the right hand side as you face down towards Selva?..."
Think you are correct - it is slightly 'uphill' at the start (there was a 'travelator' there a couple of years ago, but was missing last year..!!)
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Hyst,
bit like the one in Arabba to take skiers from one side of the village to the other without walking -- years of talking and nothing going to happen 
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andy, "Thought Cir was the black on the right hand side as you face down towards Selva?..."
Think you are correct - it is slightly 'uphill' at the start (there was a 'travelator' there a couple of years ago, but was missing last year..!!) |
Thanks both
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| Think there's an official new unmaintained piste under (or alongside) one of the other lifts (Bec de Roces?). Think they probably dug out the tree stumps and fencing from a route that people used to ski anyway. |
Looks like it - as you say, down from Bec de Roces to Passo Campolungo looks to be an official piste now on the Arabba map.
Strangely it does not look like the new lift from Pont de Vauz will not gain enough height to ski down to the start of the lift that opened last year heading up towards Porta Vescovo (Porta Dos). I think that is a missed opportunity, even if it hardly affects us.
Val Gardena map for 13-14 still shows Cir, but who knows.
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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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Any news on whether the new Dantercepies lift is on schedule? From the pics it looks like there's loads to do still
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top and bottom are pretty much finished afaict. mid station looks behind schedule. pylons are all up, but no string joining it all together yet.
2 months till opening day... loadsa time!
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You know it makes sense.
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andy, any clues where the mid station is, from the photos I saw it seems to be quite high up, near the bars att the bottom of the drag, is it just a station to facilitate a change in direction or a real mid station?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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assumed it's a real midstation where the cabins detach and reattach (bit like the one coming up from colfosco). at least the amount of concrete poured there looks like that's what it'll be. but it'll be one cable end to end.
looks like it basically follows the red piste up, and midstation approx where the drag is (not sure if the drag will still exist?).
can report back on 2nd Feb
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Poster: A snowHead
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Top looks done, bottom still looks a building site, but I think the inside is done.
Midstation looking a bit more like a ski lift now... (looks like half of it there)
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/485476_649117045110020_435206195_n.jpg
Seen another pic with a spool of cable. So looking a bit more promising now.
New rifugio at top of Burz lift in Arabba looks like it might be pretty sizeable. Only cost €2.5M. Probably not the best located rifugio for most, but might be of interest to someone having an easy day looping the blue or something.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Might have to move my first stop from the bottom of the first lift to the top, it will be sunnier 
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Detachable cars for easy storage?
Top station looks good -but not so sure about the bottom (still got big cranes up.....!)
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It does, but it's listed in Liftworld as 2 lifts. We shall have to wait-n-see I guess.
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No I think the new route was planned all along. It may have been planned because the Cir side is prone to avalanche/landslide. They'd already started building the end stations by the time of the May landslide. I think the issue there was not so much the lift, but the pistes, and that the throughput of skiers needs the red run(s) and the black Cir run to avoid a bottle neck.
Italian ski forum and Val Gardena facebook site seem to disagree on the opening. One says acceptance of the lift, and the state testing/cert in late November, and another says 2nd December. And one says it opens on 15th Dec, but the other says the 20th or 22nd December (ie the full season opening date, rather than the pre-season). And at the bottom station, the building bit with ticket office, rental shops etc. won't be finished until after the ski season. (Italian is not my 1st, or 2nd, or 3rd language, so may not be entirely accurate).
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