Does anyone know if there is there a ski bus from the bottom of the Dantercepies lift that goes to the Col Raiser lift? If so, how frequent?
I can see it is skiable via Saslong but not all our group may fancy that option. Never been in the area before so any help appreciated
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yes, there is a valley bus (3 euro daily). A link to the timetable was posted somewhere last week
@GingerWizard, ski down to the center of Selva and take the bus (orange) - have to get out at St. Christian and walk a bit down to the Val Gardena to the Ronda Express (the underground) and get on.
No change of bus in that way. (and it is easy to ski down to center og Selva from Dantercepies.)
Some of the busses go all the way down to the underground station but not all.
There is but...the ski buses IME are a pretty painful and unpredictable way to travel around Val Gardena. A much more fun way to get to Col Raiser is from Dantercepies, ski under the bridge and off to your left is a track that goes through the center of town. (Just follow everyone else). Take off skis and walk 5 minutes to the Ciampinoi cable car. From top, make your way down the Saslong and take the underground train to Col Raiser...
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@Pasigal, that's what I would do, but the OP woudl need to be confident of taking the Saslong
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@holidayloverxx, that's a fair point. There are 2 Saslong options, A/B, when you get to the 1/3 point: Saslong B is easier, iirc there's just one steep section at the very end. (if the snow is fresh the Saslong is fine, it's when you're going 120 kmh flat out on an iced-down FIS DH that it's really hairy).
If your wife is a middling to strong intermediate she can do it.
The skibus stop is just to the left when you get to the bottom of the track through Selva.
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There is but...the ski buses IME are a pretty painful and unpredictable way to travel around Val Gardena. A much more fun way to get to Col Raiser is from Dantercepies, ski under the bridge and off to your left is a track that goes through the center of town. (Just follow everyone else).
+1 - Given it doubles as a world cup race track, the Saslong is a very forgiving slope and both reasonably easy and rewarding to tackle it at a gentle pace. It is fairly steep in sections but it's very wide and has several flatter plateaus where a safe rest can be taken. On a quiet morning it's also very easy to scare the absolute sh**e out of yourself on though!
Also - it only takes 5 mins to cross the road to the Ciampinoi bubble if you stop for a coffee and a cake in the bakery!!
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@jma@holidayloverxx, that bakery is delicious! was sad that I only discovered it on the last day of our trip last year. Will be back in Feb.
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Thanks for all the advice. I don't think I'd very popular if we went down the Saslong - sounds a bit ambitious for some of the party! The option of skiing into town & bus from there sounds more sensible for us.
I assume finding the bus station after skiing into town is straightforward?
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Thanks for all the advice. I don't think I'd very popular if we went down the Saslong - sounds a bit ambitious for some of the party! The option of skiing into town & bus from there sounds more sensible for us.
I assume finding the bus station after skiing into town is straightforward?
No bus station, just stops along the main road, they're marked.
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I wouldn’t rely on the buses - my experience is that they are infrequent and hard to predict. It might be better simply to ski the Col Raiser area on a different day. There is plenty of skiing there (& at Dantercepies/Corvara) to keep everyone happy for a day. A run your less confident skiers might enjoy is La Longia which is around 10km of uninterrupted cruising from the top of the Seceda chair down to Ortisei.
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I consider myself as an average intermediate and I find the Saslong fairly easy and enjoyable in the right conditions. There are considerably more difficult reds getting back down into Selva than the Saslong.
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Can anyone advise on the easiest way to ski from Col Raiser over to Canazei? OH been warned that the red connecting Ciampinioi to Plan de Gralba is 'steep & can be crowded'. Its not clear from the piste map if we need to drop down to Plan de Gralba in order to pick up the Sella Ronda?
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@GingerWizard, Indeed the first part of that run from Ciampinoi down to Plan de Gralba is a place which is often in semi-chaos with people all over the place on it. If it were not for the crowds, I don't think it actually would be too bad but trying to make your way down among the others is not easy.
You can skirt round the side of the Ciampinoi summit (if looking down from a bird's eye view you would be going clockwise round it) and then ski down the ridge (Ciampinoi 4) and turn right at the end, but that's not really a much nicer route. May benefit from fewer people.
I'm not sure there is any obvious way round. One possibility (but I have never tried it) would be to take the chair out of Santa Christina up to Monte Pana, then the Mont de Sura chair and from there the flat blue to connect to Tramans chair after which I think you can take the red Piz Sella down into Plan de Gralba. I don't know how much of a walk it is in S Christina to the Monte Pana chair - google reckons 10 min walk.
another video
shows the "skirt around Ciampinoi summit" route I describe above.
This
video
shows the "normal" route and why the bit at the top is chaos. As you look down, it has a steeper side at the left, to the right next to the chair coming up the slope is less steep. But of course that serves to drive more people to that half of the piste.
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Thanks for the video clips. Not as bad as I was expecting. As long as not overly crowded might be ok...
As others have said anyone who can ski a blue with reasonable confidence and manage on a Dolomites red can ski the Saslong and enjoy it. The B option is easier
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