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All- given the hive mind and dolomite love here, I hope you will be able to help on this one...
Really looking forward to a return to the dolomites in a few weeks (especially looking at the webcams this morning!). For the first time this trip one of our number isn't skiing, and we would like to lunch with them on at least a few days without restricting too much where we ski... so I'm trying to work out which restaurants might be easily accessible to a pedestrian from Corvara. The options in Alta Badia are pretty self explanatory, but do you know if it's possible for a pedestrian to easily bus to Arraba/ Selva and then take lifts to mountain top restaurants? Any thoughts much appreciated. We'd love to get them to Comici, but I guess that's out of the question...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Direct access via gondolas for pedestrians from Corvara are:
1. Boe gondola will take you up to Piz Boe where you have the Alpine Lounge. This for you is directly on the Sella Ronda circuit
2. Col Alto gondola will take you up to the ski area above Corvara/San Cassiano/La Villa. Directly at the top of the gondola you have the Col Alto restaurant. But from there are only ski pistes to the rest of the area. I have not seen anything resembling a walking trail from here
3. Just above the village of Corvara, there is a chair that goes up to the Arlara restaurant. But I don’t think there is access on the chair to go back down. And again I don’t think there are any walking trails back down
From Corvara, pedestrians can also get the Borest gondola to Colfosco. From there they should be able to walk to the Colfosco gondola which will take you up above Colfosco and the Edelweiss restaurant
At Colfosco, they may be able to get the Sodlisia chair and from the top of that, walk down to the Plans/Frara gondola which will take them up to Jimmy’s hut just above Passo gardena (again on the Sella Ronda circuit). I have not seen anyone walk from top of Sodlisia chair to the gondola buy you may be able to, although you will be walking alongside a narrow piste that links the two.
I’m positive there is no public bus in wintertime to take you from Corvara over the pass to Selva. You would have to take a taxi.
As for Arraba, timetable I’m looking at says that bus leaves Corvara at 12:45 and arrives in Arraba at 13:05. It then returns at 14:30. But you may want to double check this in the tourist office
From Corvara there is definitely an hourly bus to San Cassiano and La Villa. From both of these villages you can take a gondola up to a restaurant. At Piz Sorega above San Cassiano there are two restaurants
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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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| jimmybog wrote: |
From Corvara, pedestrians can also get the Borest gondola to Colfosco. From there they should be able to walk to the Colfosco gondola which will take you up above Colfosco and the Edelweiss restaurant
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That would involve crossing a piste, although it's not a major thoroughfare
If they took the bus to La Villa they could take the bubble up the hill and get to the St. Moritz and the one just along (small walk on edge of piste) which was recently recommended on here
| jimmybog wrote: |
| At Piz Sorega above San Cassiano there are two restaurants |
Yes but you would only ever go to Las Vegas - the other one is a bit poor (by dolomites standards)
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| bertie bassett wrote: |
That would involve crossing a piste, although it's not a major thoroughfare
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It would, but like you say, not a major thoroughfare as most of the traffic would be coming from the Sella ronda route direct to the Borest gondola station, thus avoiding the piste you would have to walk on. Must admit though, I didnt see anyone walking on the pistes around there
Another option is to get the bus to Colfosco and walk down the side road next to the bank. That should take you straight to the Colfosco gondola (at least it does in summertime)
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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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I think the bus from Corvara to Colfosco has a stop in Colfosco right by the side of the Mathiaskeller Restaurant (which is part of the Hotel Luianta and is just to the right as you get off the top of the Sodlisia chairlift which is part of the Sella Ronda anticlockwise circuit). The food and interior decor there (including the bar stools as you enter  ) are well worth a visit. Tripadvisor report
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Many thanks all- really helpful.
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For reference the pedestrians got to:
Col Alt
Las Vegas (drove to San Cassiano)
Jimmys (drove to top of Colfosco then walked down to Plans)
Punta Trieste (took pralongia chairlift)
In town in Selva
Other options would have been alpine lounge, Moritzino and arguably Col Pradat (although a bit of a hair cross piste walk) as well as to Arabba.
Lifts typically cost them 8-10 euro per head return.
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| davelebus wrote: |
For reference the pedestrians got to:
Col Alt
Las Vegas (drove to San Cassiano)
Jimmys (drove to top of Colfosco then walked down to Plans)
Punta Trieste (took pralongia chairlift)
In town in Selva
Other options would have been alpine lounge, Moritzino and arguably Col Pradat (although a bit of a hair cross piste walk) as well as to Arabba.
Lifts typically cost them 8-10 euro per head return. |
Thanks for the update Davelbus. Hope they enjoyed them all. Suprised they didnt buy a points card for the lifts as it surely would have been cheaper than paying separately for each lift??
And how did they get down from Punta Trieste? Did they come down on the lift or walk down the red piste?
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So am I- missed a trick there...
They took the lift back down.
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