 Poster: A snowHead
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Seen a package option that might suit 3 of us in March to Drei Zinnen.
Looks great for friend who is beginner and will be in ski school and we can get back most lunchtimes to meet her for lunch.
Me and partner might get fed up of tiny ski area over 6 days; are there any linked resorts we can get to for a couple of day trips? Even if a bus ride away?
Hoping Crystal do a ski away day if not.
Looking at hotel Bad Moos and Hotel Baranci, San Candido- anyone stayed either of those and and comments on locations? Bad Moos is looking the nicer hotel however friend who will have to pick up rental apparently has to get a 20 min bus to do so
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I haven’t any personal experience of this, but Drei Zinnen is supposed to be linked to Plan de Corones / Kronplatz by train.
https://www.skipustertal.com/en/
I can tell you that at the Kronplatz end, the station at Perca / Percha is adjacent to the lift station and you do just walk across the platform from the train onto the lift.
It’s at the base of the “Reid” piste which is quite a long one so you would need to allow time to return or risk missing the train.
The lift up from the train station is about 20 minutes (from memory) and takes you direct to the summit of Kronplatz.
It’s on my list of trips to do (from Kronplatz to Drei Zinnen)
If you do make the trip then I’d be very interested in how it went
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@JHS, brilliant thanks that looks like it opens up what we can do.
Also look less hassle than getting bus anywhere as looks like can just step on train in ski boots and then head up the gondola 
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@MCL, the only thing that concerns me a little is that the link to the timetable says it is from 2019/2020
Might be worth a phone call or email to the Tourist Information or hotel or someone just to check that the train is running.
I can’t imagine that it wouldn’t run. But maybe worth checking
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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've skied 3 Zinnen as a daytrip when staying near Cortina. We had a car. Did the full skitour to Padola and back which was good fun, you do need two buses unless they have built the connecting lift at the Kreuzberg Pass.
But although there's quite a sense of travel from Vierschach to Padola, it isn't a huge area for a whole week, so catching the train to Kronplatz on a couple of days would be a great idea, and if Crystal lays on an awayday down to Cortina, do that too! 
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The train stations at Vierschach (for 3 Zinnen) and Percha (for Kronplatz) are right next to the lift stations. It was designed to be integrated to the ski areas and it's a public railway line, so I can't imagine the trains wouldn't be running along Pustertal regularly as usual, though I've never used them.
You've also got the small Haunold area at Innichen/San Candido and an even smaller hill at Toblach.
Will your friend be learning at Haunold or Helm?
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@luigi, Thanks good to hear and makes it more appealing for me
Not sure where the lessons will be- will be wherever Crystal send them (we've now acquired an extra person!)  Hotel is San Candido so guess lessons will be there
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It sounds interesting - do send some reports and pictures.
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How was San Candido? Would be great to hear your review and if you’d recommend it!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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Thanks for sharing your thoughts! The area looks really beautiful - I think we would go for a long weekend with our children. So it seems like there would be plenty to ski if we were based in San Candido! Seems like an underrated place. Thanks again 
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The Train/lift connections are good at Vierschach for Drei Zinnen and Percha for Kronplatz, so if you found a hotel near one of the stations along the Pustertal valley, namely Bruneck-Brunico, Olang-Valdaora, Welsberg-Monguelfo, Niederdorf-Villabassa, Toblach-Dobbiaco or Innichen-San Candido, you could ski both areas easily.
Everywhere in South Tyrol has at least two names, one in German & one in Italian (some have Ladin too). The locals in this part mostly speak German (South Tyrol dialect) as a first language so the German placename is most commonly used.
There was quite a bit of state-sponsored Italianisation after the region was annexed by Italy after WW1, particularly during the Mussolini years, but that was only moderately successful as it all ended with a partisan bullet and to this day some settlements in Pustertal are still in the high 90s percent German-speaking.
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You know it makes sense.
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Very scenic...like most of the Dolomites...
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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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Great photo!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Not mine, just one I grabbed from the Internet!
But shows the peaks of the Sexten Dolomites as the backdrop to the Drei Zinnen ski area.
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FAQ
so we spent the first day giving her her first ski lesson which wasn't ideal for anyone!
