 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi Guys
I made it here and can't wait to strap my feet in tomorrow. Quick question...
I the past we've done some distance trips (Le Brevt to Val glacier & back, La Tania to the hidden valley and back (I know, we should have started in 16 or 1550!!). Currently in Sestriere and wondering if it was possible to do all 5 resorts in the Milky Way in a day (First lift obviously!)
Anyone done it? Is it possible? Any suggestions on where to find a route/ advice?
Cheers in advance!
Crem x
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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As far as I remember the route is marked on the printed piste map. I'd be skeptical about being able to do it in a single day though. There's a bit of faffing around with slow lifts up and down around Cesana. Unnecessary stress towards the lift closing times if you're nowhere near your base yet.
Edit: Just found it on their website: http://www.vialattea.it/Ski-Area/Ski-Map
It's that orange/green line. Looks like cheating to me. You get 5 resorts, but don't get to their farthest points.
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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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Doable but really not worth it. Far too much time spent on lifts with little skiing.
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We have done from Montgenevre, but would agree with @sequoiaboard, not really worth it, we didn't get enough time to get a proper sense of what each resort had to offer and were on a lot of lifts and "roads" all day.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Thanks all, might have a look into doing that whilst I'm there... I arrive in Sauze d'Oulx on the 14th March. I wonder if you can do it with a group as part of a guided ski tour - probably more difficult or not at all now that the Italians have followed the French example in clamping down on TO ski reps doing it. The orange and green remind me of the markings on the Dolomiti Superski domain piste map for the clockwise and anti-clockwise Sella Ronda routes.
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@scubadancer, Your TO might offer a day trip to Monty, that'll be a minibus/coach to Monty in time for first lifts. That might be worthwhile. Monty by lifts will be a morning of sitting on lifts (many slow) a couple of runs in Monty then a stressful afternoon wondering if you'll get back to base before the lifts close.
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Can be done but don't take the blue piste90 ski road coming down to Cesana as it's long winding and flat; Instead download on chairs 39+40... That whole section is a long string of lifts going in both directions.
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@Solway Crem, Yep done it a couple of times. Sauze to Montgenevre via Sestriere, Cesana and Claviere not a difficult trip to do.
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If staying in sestriere ski around there sauze and sansicario on a daily basis. Do the bus trip to montgenevre so you can ski there all day. Worth the 20 euro bus fare with crystal
Agree worth blue piste 90. It is the worst run I have ever been on. Took ages and is not really skiing.
You can do the whole milky way in a day easily but more on lists than actual skiing and would be a waste of a day in my opinion
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@scubadancer, in a nutshell, doable, but unrewarding. 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| mikeelsa wrote: |
| ... Do the bus trip to montgenevre so you can ski there all day. Worth the 20 euro bus fare with crystal.... |
I've heard this before, and it sounds like a good plan to me... Thanks 
| mikeelsa wrote: |
| ....You can do the whole milky way in a day easily but more on lists than actual skiing and would be a waste of a day in my opinion. |
^^ Sounds like the anti-clockwise Sella Ronda tour!
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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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A thread running of weekend had focused on irresponsible skiing - ie too fast considering how busy and narrow the piste is. I don't want to sound negative but It made me think that the times when I've probably done this are when I've set myself a bit of a challenge for the day or had to get back to get vital links etc. I guess the point I'm making is that mileage and route targets can suddenly put us under pressure to ski in a way that we wouldn't normally.
I must be getting old 
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The link between Claviere and Sansicario via Cesana is pretty non-descript (certainly when Croce isn't open) as well as being time consuming so to answer your question - don't bother
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You know it makes sense.
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A group of friends did it a few years ago when we were staying in Borgata. But they cheated: they got a helicopter back (from the top of Monte della Luna to the top of Alpette).
Following day we did it ourselves - without the helicopter and did get up into the snowpark at the top of Montgenevre. This was before the new gondola from Cesana to Sansicario was built, so it's a bit quicker now.
Last edited by You know it makes sense. on Mon 2-03-15 14:27; edited 1 time in total
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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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I'd rather ski than bus it even if the run isn't that interesting
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Poster: A snowHead
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Doable and fun for the sake of having done it. We went at it with real pace and got round in a longish January day! Our trip was mixed boarders and skiers, dads and sons, all good skiers, two of the lads were instructors. we even got part of the party lost on the way and as always it was a professional navigator, in the form of a retired professional offshore yacht skipper! he didn't get his leg pulled at all - not even slightly!
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