Where’s the cheapest pint in arc 1800? My eyes are watering at the prices
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Lovely conditions this morning. It continues to snow lightly and about -5 degrees with no wind at lower elevations. Cloud base about 2100m, so staying in the trees above Vallandry where visibility is fine. About 5-10cm of creamy snow on top of freshly pisted runs first thing. Perfect hero snow! First run, just me and a little music in my helmet, was a moment of bliss. Off piste through the trees needs more snow to reset, so very lumpy underneath the fresh.
Nice day all round, if you stayed low enough to get decent visibility. Light snow all day, except for the second half of the afternoon where it got a bit heavier. Lower slopes still a bit crispy where the fresh snow was swept away by sideways travelling slope users, but the pistebashers should address that overnight.
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Varet gondola report: Yum.
Head to 2000 for viz.
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Beware of sharks. They’re out hunting today
fingers crossed it was but a flesh wound
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rob@rar wrote:
Beware of sharks. They’re out hunting today
fingers crossed it was but a flesh wound
Just a glancing blow. Espresso and rum babas is fixing things as we speak.
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Hello.
We’re off to Arc 2000 on Saturday. Son and I are skiing, daughter and wife are coming along but not skiing.
Family is keen to go on the Vanoise Express at some point for the experience. Appreciate Arc 2000 is right over on the left of Les Arcs. Can anyone tell me the best route for pedestrians with the lifts to take to get over to the Vanoise Express and roughly how long it would take them please? Hopefully it’s doable for them to make it across to La Plagne and back to Arc 2000 before everything closes….
Thanks!
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If thy are really keen to go to La Plagne, possibly to go down the bob sleigh track, then get the funicular down to Bourg and the bus up from there.
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Thanks John. They will have the Pedestrian + passes which gives access to most of the lifts and includes the Vanoise Express.
Is it not possible for them to get across using the lifts?
Says here https://en.lesarcs.com/pedestrians-prices
Funiculaire, Transarc 1 & 2, Villards
Vallandry, Varet, Aiguille
Rouge, Peisey, Arcabulle, Vanoise Express are all included with Pedestrian Pass +
Thanks
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You know it makes sense.
@Bramble, It is possible by walking up to the Arcabule, getting the Transarc back down and walking across to Vallandry (there is a scenic footpath, not the piste) or taking the navette around. I'd allow an hour to get to 1800. I think the walk from 1800 to Vallandry is about 40 minutes
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Thanks. Will have to see if the wife and daughter feel it’s worth the effort then
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@Bramble, I reckon they could walk to Arcabulle from 2000 and then download in the TransArc and then get a bus to the VE. Same on the reverse.
The rides in the two lifts would be 10 minutes each.
Worth doing IMO, the VE is spectacular.
There is a nice little bar restaurant on both sides of the VE.
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rob@rar wrote:
Nice day all round, if you stayed low enough to get decent visibility. Light snow all day, except for the second half of the afternoon where it got a bit heavier. Lower slopes still a bit crispy where the fresh snow was swept away by sideways travelling slope users, but the pistebashers should address that overnight.
that photo is a little slice of heaven in my book!
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... that photo is a little slice of heaven in my book!
@Bramble, May I suggest a couple other excursions for your wife and daughter:
Take the funicular down to Bourg st Maurice and stand at the very front. It's better than many fairground rides with stunning views. Then walk around to the Super U and marvel at the wonderful gastonomic delights. After all when was the last time you saw rabbits or pigeons for sale in the UK. Or winkles for that matter.
Take Varet up and visit the light show in the telecabine garage. It's wonderful
Take Varet up and take the zip wire back down again.
Take Arcabulle up and take the luge back again.
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Thanks John. Yep, the zip line and luge are already planned. Thanks for the additional suggestions
Conditions very nice. Cool but not cold, some high cloud and occasional valley cloud drifting up the hill. Piste conditions very good, and plenty of nice variable snow off-piste. Plus the odd shark. A little bit of video from Sunday and Monday:
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We are heading to Les Arcs this weekend. Staying in Peisey. We’ve been before a couple of times but not for a few years.
Any particular recommendations on favourite runs. Or best bars/restaurants stopping the mountains. We can ski and board most things.
Any tips appreciated
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Where abouts in Peisey, @EvieTee?
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EvieTee wrote:
We are heading to Les Arcs this weekend. Staying in Peisey. We’ve been before a couple of times but not for a few years.
Any particular recommendations on favourite runs. Or best bars/restaurants stopping the mountains. We can ski and board most things.
Any tips appreciated
Restaurants:
Cabane Des Neiges in 1800 for dinner is great
Lunch on the slopes, ski down Mont Blanc Blue run (beautiful run) and head to Le Sanglier Qui Fume restaurant for lunch. Its amazing food.
In the Arc 2000 bowl there is great pizza and good tunes with live saxaphone at the Bulle Cafe
Close to Peisey you have the "Les Enfant Terrible" restaurant which is a favourite of ours for a beer and a crepe mid morning.
Runs: Fave blues are Renard off the top of the Derby lift near Peisey and Mont Blanc at 1600.
Fave Black is Malgovert - amazing and beautiful terrain to ski. Quite tricky - its a ski Natur run.
Fave Red is Arrandelieres from top of the Varet.
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EvieTee wrote:
We are heading to Les Arcs this weekend. Staying in Peisey. We’ve been before a couple of times but not for a few years.
Any particular recommendations on favourite runs. Or best bars/restaurants stopping the mountains. We can ski and board most things.
Any tips appreciated
The tree lined runs between Arc 1800 and Vallandry 1600 are some of my favourite - with a nice choice of blues and reds. Nice and wide, and plenty of them so it never feels that busy.
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Or best bars/restaurants stopping the mountains.
It's quite hard to stop a mountain, but seriously what is meant by "best" depends on your criteria. Our favourites include the hotel Vanoise for qualit/price ratio but for less cost and quailty Rock Mountain is good. The Buelle just above 2000 does an excellent seafood platter.
There are lots of really excellent runs and they depend to some extent on the snow.
Blues: Renard, Barmont, Mont Blanc
Bluish red: Clocherette
Reds: Combe, Belette, all reds down to 1800 and 1600, Lac
Blacks: Comborciere, Refuge, the 3 down from Varet.
Perhaps a better question might be runs we are not too keen on
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I've just noticed that they have changed the map for the runs on Aguille Rouge slightly vs last year. Arandelières 2 (red) used to be shown as starting at the top but this year it seems like you have to do some of the black run before starting Arandelières 2 a decent bit lower. I recall the red was simply a path that wound around the steeper parts of the black.
Is there any functional difference this year or is it simply for simplicity on the map? Eg is it no longer pisted so more moguls etc.
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
Ruswit wrote:
I've just noticed that they have changed the map for the runs on Aguille Rouge slightly vs last year. Arandelières 2 (red) used to be shown as starting at the top but this year it seems like you have to do some of the black run before starting Arandelières 2 a decent bit lower. I recall the red was simply a path that wound around the steeper parts of the black.
Is there any functional difference this year or is it simply for simplicity on the map? Eg is it no longer pisted so more moguls etc.
Good question! I also wonder whether just having a black shown on the map from the top will ease the traffic in the Aiguille Rogue 30 cable as it always seems to have a massive queue - it might put a few people (less familiar with with the area) off if they no longer see the red.
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ratkinsonuk wrote:
Where abouts in Peisey, @EvieTee?
Near the bottom of the lobster pots
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Macker13 wrote:
EvieTee wrote:
We are heading to Les Arcs this weekend. Staying in Peisey. We’ve been before a couple of times but not for a few years.
Any particular recommendations on favourite runs. Or best bars/restaurants stopping the mountains. We can ski and board most things.
Any tips appreciated
Restaurants:
Cabane Des Neiges in 1800 for dinner is great
Lunch on the slopes, ski down Mont Blanc Blue run (beautiful run) and head to Le Sanglier Qui Fume restaurant for lunch. Its amazing food.
In the Arc 2000 bowl there is great pizza and good tunes with live saxaphone at the Bulle Cafe
Close to Peisey you have the "Les Enfant Terrible" restaurant which is a favourite of ours for a beer and a crepe mid morning.
Runs: Fave blues are Renard off the top of the Derby lift near Peisey and Mont Blanc at 1600.
Fave Black is Malgovert - amazing and beautiful terrain to ski. Quite tricky - its a ski Natur run.
Fave Red is Arrandelieres from top of the Varet.
This is so brilliant
Thank you so much for taking the time to reply.
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@Ruswit, TBH I never noticed the red coming off the top until you get the the branch at the end of glacier. How did it difffer from the black?
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Handy Turnip wrote:
EvieTee wrote:
We are heading to Les Arcs this weekend. Staying in Peisey. We’ve been before a couple of times but not for a few years.
Any particular recommendations on favourite runs. Or best bars/restaurants stopping the mountains. We can ski and board most things.
Any tips appreciated
The tree lined runs between Arc 1800 and Vallandry 1600 are some of my favourite - with a nice choice of blues and reds. Nice and wide, and plenty of them so it never feels that busy.
These were some of my favourite last time. Especially on a snow day. So quiet and great snow/visibilty.
Might have to head higher some days next week looking at the forecast but they’re definitely in the plan
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johnE wrote:
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Or best bars/restaurants stopping the mountains.
It's quite hard to stop a mountain, but seriously what is meant by "best" depends on your criteria. Our favourites include the hotel Vanoise for qualit/price ratio but for less cost and quailty Rock Mountain is good. The Buelle just above 2000 does an excellent seafood platter.
There are lots of really excellent runs and they depend to some extent on the snow.
Blues: Renard, Barmont, Mont Blanc
Bluish red: Clocherette
Reds: Combe, Belette, all reds down to 1800 and 1600, Lac
Blacks: Comborciere, Refuge, the 3 down from Varet.
Perhaps a better question might be runs we are not too keen on
Haha. Sorry typo my bad.
That’s very helpful thank you.
Yeah ok. Good point. Love the area and lots to enjoy.
Anything or anywhere to avoid in particular?
I've just noticed that they have changed the map for the runs on Aguille Rouge slightly vs last year. Arandelières 2 (red) used to be shown as starting at the top but this year it seems like you have to do some of the black run before starting Arandelières 2 a decent bit lower. I recall the red was simply a path that wound around the steeper parts of the black.
Is there any functional difference this year or is it simply for simplicity on the map? Eg is it no longer pisted so more moguls etc.
The route down at the top now follows what was the red route. The direct black slope at the start has been fenced off. The descent down the glacier has also been made easier with a pisted traverse cutting across the top. It's not really much of a black route at all now. But never mind there are a couple of Natur blacks which you can drop into part way down. I did Genepi today and had an excellent run with great snow and some proper steep stuff worthy of black status.
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P.S. Whether the fencing off of the top slope is just temporary I don't know. It's marked on the map in Yuge as being a piste. But it was very much fenced off today.
@Ruswit, TBH I never noticed the red coming off the top until you get the the branch at the end of glacier. How did it difffer from the black?
So I've only done it the once as ashamedly I've only ever been across from la plagne 1 time in over ten visits, so I am hardly an expert on the run.
It seemed like nearer the top the red would often take a wide hairpin to snake down the slope but the black run would essentially cut the corner and go down the steep way. They overlapped a fair bit from memory.
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EvieTee wrote:
We are heading to Les Arcs this weekend. Staying in Peisey. We’ve been before a couple of times but not for a few years.
Any particular recommendations on favourite runs. Or best bars/restaurants stopping the mountains. We can ski and board most things.
Any tips appreciated
Try out the Mont Blanc Bar just below the Grizzly lift base station, the food is good and it has lively evenings. The terrace out the back is a real sun trap when the weather is good!
After all it is free
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wills_h wrote:
EvieTee wrote:
We are heading to Les Arcs this weekend. Staying in Peisey. We’ve been before a couple of times but not for a few years.
Any particular recommendations on favourite runs. Or best bars/restaurants stopping the mountains. We can ski and board most things.
Any tips appreciated
Try out the Mont Blanc Bar just below the Grizzly lift base station, the food is good and it has lively evenings. The terrace out the back is a real sun trap when the weather is good!
Thank you!!
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hyperkub wrote:
Ruswit wrote:
I've just noticed that they have changed the map for the runs on Aguille Rouge slightly vs last year. Arandelières 2 (red) used to be shown as starting at the top but this year it seems like you have to do some of the black run before starting Arandelières 2 a decent bit lower. I recall the red was simply a path that wound around the steeper parts of the black.
Is there any functional difference this year or is it simply for simplicity on the map? Eg is it no longer pisted so more moguls etc.
The route down at the top now follows what was the red route. The direct black slope at the start has been fenced off. The descent down the glacier has also been made easier with a pisted traverse cutting across the top. It's not really much of a black route at all now. But never mind there are a couple of Natur blacks which you can drop into part way down. I did Genepi today and had an excellent run with great snow and some proper steep stuff worthy of black status.
Aye I have just watched a recent youtube video of the run and it is as you said, seems they have made the whole thing follow the original red run and turned it into a black, which is a bit odd.
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