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Hi we're staying in Villars for a long weekend of 3 days skiing (first time there), does anyone know how you can get to Les Diablerets and Glacier3000, it's included in our ski passes, but doesn't seem to be joined up from the piste map I can see, are there ski bus/public transport options?
Thanks Rich
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Rich D, You can get to Les Di... easy enough - there's a rather unusual 2-way chair lift that links it with Villars.
You'd then need a bus to get to the lifts to the Glacier. We didn't bother when there for a long weekend
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Brilliant thanks.
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You'll end up skiing Les Diablerets when in Villars generically as mentioned above, it is a bit of a faff to get to glacier 3000 and generally not really worth it. Certainly should go the other end though and explore the full end of Villars down over to the pistes at Gryon, but the nicest skiing in the region is usually around Meilleret area over the Diablerets side. The chair linking the 2 areas was only upgraded a few years ago for the Junior Winter games and is zippy enough, so its pretty seamless across to Diablerets from Villars.
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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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As an addendum to the above, many visitors to Villar end up just skiing around the pistes at Bretaye, Roc D'Orsay etc, which is fine, but there's a lot more to do away from there.
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thanks useful info will make sure we check those areas out too.
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@coddlesangers, Yes I agree, it's an interesting area that rewards and explorative approach.
The chair upgrade you mention was post my visit. In those days it was a vary curious padded chairlift like an armchair
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There’s some great Freeride terrain off G3000 if that’s your gig
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Thanks for the help snowheads. We had 3 great days skiing. the first day Saturday was one of the busiest ski days I've ever seen (and that includes 3 valleys in half term).
we skied across to diablerets and then down to vers d'eglise but ended up queuing across the piste for 20mins for a drag lift, so escaped back to villars to ski overly moguled reds.
Sunday was much quieter and we went the other way across to gyrons and had some lovely long easy blues before coming back to villars for the afternoon.
Monday we skied across to diablerets then jumped on the bus and cable car to glacier 3000. the skiing wasn't worth the hassle of getting there, but the views and the walk across the sky bridge was worth it. We were back in Villars for the afternoon, and managed to ski until they closed the slopes.
it was a great get away and apart from the Saturday crowds was really enjoyable, albeit with some questionable snow.
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