Adaptive teams used to use the funicular every day back when there was race training on the Grande Motte.
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I suspect if you go look at the webcams you'll get your answer. The Motte webcam, usefully, has an archive back to 2012. I've been skiing in Tignes since 1990 and back then you could ski the glacier with pretty much no rocks protruding through the main bulk. I never skied in summer, but the oldest archive clearly shows the old drag alongside the main glacier piste, starting across from the top of the old Laisse run, and opposite the small chair that feeds back up to the Motte Cablecar. Now there is a 'massif' about the size of four football pitches and around 20' clear of the significantly reduced mass of the glacier. It's impossible to piste a run from the glacier across to Laisse, and even if it got covered in snow it would likely blow off at times, and at other leave dangerous rocks hidden. It was never a great run, usually very choppy at the bottom. It's a few years since I've been on the the Motte and seen the run open, but I'd suspect, as it dropped off towards the lip of the glacier on that slope, any further reduction in ice mass would have taken the run back from the bottom of the chair anyway.
On the glacier lip at the north, looking down to Val Claret, I recall skiing off the lip and not having far to go through the craggy rocks to drop into the long gulley back down. I'm not sure that would be possible now. The rate at which the Motte has receded in my skiing lifetime has been staggering, and where Tignes once offered pretty much year-round skiing, it's limited to a very wet, and unreliable, couple of weeks in late June-early July now.
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Like many forecast sites snow-forecast often exaggerates falls more than 2 or 3 days hence; and indeed are wrong. However, if it is still showing similar amount for the coming storm come Monday morning I will start thinking we are in business
Let's hope so @Mark1863! Wepowder is now showing even bigger snowfalls for Tignes 151cm??
Well. We will all know by Thursday what the reality is. My cynicism will not stop me looking at the webcams!
I will arrive midday 30/11 and be out the next day,
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The same thing seems to happen for temperature where sea level temperatures have an adiabatic lapse rate applied to give the temperature at altitude. But this rate is rarely linear through the atmosphere - so you can often get quite scary temperatures (Meteociel - looking at you!). You can then add the windchill and get truly scary temps - see above.
Blimey - the first time I have seen adiabatic lapse rates discussed since my Geography A level studies about 55 years ago! Are we talking wet or dry though when we are in the mountains?
@Old Fartbag, I shall miss our annual get together. Who else is going to put the World to rights?
Lots of tourers heading up Double M this morning again, the word must have got out that it was worth it.
If you are wondering, like I was, what the metal thing on the snow front is, across the road from the Arbina (the webcam is not that clear) it’s a gigantic Christmas Bauble surrounded by presents!
@Mark1863, The rest of the tennis courts have been ‘tyred’ so it can definitely snow hard now. I wonder where they keep them all?
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@Old Fartbag, I shall miss our annual get together. Who else is going to put the World to rights?
Me too.....But....All being well, "I will be back!"....hopefully, with Miss Fartbagette.
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What’s the purpose of putting tyres down in certain locations?
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They are essentially to protect the underlying surface. In Le Lac they are put over the local Tennis courts - some of which form part of the piste. Clearly you do not want someone ruining the surface with the edge of a ski. They indicate when the snow pack is getting too thin to be used. You will also see them near the top of the Toviere lift where i think it is more to protect the skis. It gets scoured up there and tyres tell the pisteurs they need to push some snow in,
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Anyone in the area formerly known as Espace Killy able to confirm that the dump is indeed materialising?
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I'm going to Tignes this weekend on my own, if anyone would like to join me. Been monitoring the weather and the cams. There's already a decent dusting, it's set to continue snowing for a few more days. Weather for Sat and Sun looks gorgeous! And lift passes are only 60 euro for the whole weekend
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Have a lovely time, Louise. Should be a grand start to the season. Sadly, I have to wait another week.
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@louise_loves_powder, sounds great enjoy!
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Officially there was 32cm in Lac in the 24 hours to breakfast time this morning. The forecasts seem to have throttled back on the amount of snow today and tomorrow, but still significant amounts. The Glacier is shut today as it’s too windy!
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looking at that website they havent put up the schedule yet for the Circuit Tignes 1800 yet - does anyone know when this will be made public, and will it definitely be running by 6th December?
@eak99, In previous years they have run that shuttle from the day the resort opens. Initially, it may be a limited service to get people up and down to the open lifts at rush hour.
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Officially there was 32cm in Lac in the 24 hours to breakfast time this morning. The forecasts seem to have throttled back on the amount of snow today and tomorrow, but still significant amounts. The Glacier is shut today as it’s too windy!
Bergfex is showing me 47cm for today, 51cm for tomorrow and 23cm for Friday!
It was basically showing close to 2 metres over 5 days (admittedly that will likely be up top as opposed to Le Lac level).
Hopefully a load more similar dumps of snow to come...
If I was a betting person, I'd bet against 120 cm by Friday. That way I'd be happy if I won and happy if I lost. A no loose situation.
I tend to use BBC Weather because you can't predict snow at a particular location except in general terms, such as none, light, heavy. 2m at the top would be lovely.
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Double M is open officially this morning!
It’s also snowing in Aime down the Valley, nice.
Storms tonight - 110k gusts and storms, it might be a slow start tomorrow with another 30 to 40cm through today and tomorrow.
In other news Whitegold Hospitality has gone into ‘judicial reorganisation’. They are the investment and construction arm of Etincelle which run, amongst 30 odd others around the Tarentaise, The Campanules, Voulez Vous, The Arbina, Aiguille Percee etc in Tignes. There’s a lot of complex financial structures so not sure what the effect will be, the hotel websites are still taking bookings. But work on the next project - that monolith in Brev stopped 3 weeks ago. Likewise, I guess the plans for a big new hotel on the plots of the combined Arbina, Vallon Blanc and Aiguille Percee will have ground to a halt.
For PSBers Le Taos is not part of this group.
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@chocksaway, Ugg. Etincelle also bought the Village Montana complex sometime around the pandamic period. We've got two holidays booked there this winter - one in just over two weeks time, and another in March.
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Is this an early opening? Website says official opening is Saturday!
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@chocksaway, Ugg. Etincelle also bought the Village Montana complex sometime around the pandamic period. We've got two holidays booked there this winter - one in just over two weeks time, and another in March.
I also have a booking coming up. No expert but my basic understanding is a judicial reorganisation in France is a way a debtor forces a claim to get paid (I.e. agree a repayment plan through the courts usually) but allows the company to keep performing it's usual activity in order to generate the funds to do that.
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@kitenski, No, this week is professionals only, racers, ENSA etc.
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No, this week is professionals only, racers, ENSA etc
That's a shame - but no doubt (cue the music...) "It's fun to ski with the...E. N. S. A!"
So is it looking like the lits that were planned for the opening week will all be good to go I can't see anything about it on the Tignes website, but am sure that a month or so ago, it was showing as the Grande Motte lifts plus (IIRC?) Tichot, Grattalu, Merles, Palafour, Bollin - and maybe Tufs?
A week tonight and I (& Mrs MA) will be there! I wonder if the bargain opening weekend price of €30 a day will still be applicable?
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Is this an early opening? Website says official opening is Saturday!
Another 48cm in the village over the last 24 hours, more aloft. So that gives us about 85cm at 2100m in the last week. It was very stormy last night - reports in Le D talk of many trees blown down and roofs coming off. The piste bashers are out on Palafour this morning (thanks to a local spy - the webcams seem to be having a day off). Its still a guess as to whats open tomorrow - guess we'll find out later. Looks like the glacier is shut this morning.
But tomorrow will be a good day . The rest of today will be grizzly, the sun may make short appearances, but the wind won't abate till later. It will be a milky sky tomorrow with light winds, relatively mild in the village but cold aloft. Sunday will be pretty much the same but a few degrees warmer. Monday will have sunny spells through the day and the temps will go up again (a bit like the UK!). But it will cloud over and precipitation is likely to begin around happy hour. The bad news is that it is likely to be rain up to somewhere between the Dam and Lac. This weather pattern continues through Tuesday where temperatures rain snow line may well climb to just above Lac in the middle of the day. But I don't see much damage being done to the pistes above lack - but it will be thoroughly miserable. After that the models diverge so there's not much point trying to work it all out and I'm due at the dentist!
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@Annecy ski tourer, Do you mean the Cable Car incident in Val Thorens?
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@chocksaway, thanks for the update. Keeping my eye on things with being out there with the PSB. Be nice to meet some of you regulars, my first SH bash.
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Lifts open tomorrow from Tignes.net:
Funiculaire Perce Neige : 9h00 - 16h00 (dernière descente à 16h30)
Téléphérique Grande Motte : fermé
Télésièges Lanches & Vanoise : remise en état. Réouverture prévue dans les prochains jours
SECTEUR AIGUILLE PERCÉE
Télésiège Palafour : 9h00 - 16h30
Grand Huit : à confirmer samedi 23 novembre
With the snow and wind yesterday it looks like there’s some sorting out to do. As there was about a metre of snow up there, that’s not a surprise.
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@Boofont, Sadly, I won’t be there in person till early Jan this year, but thanks for the thought. I’ll keep putting stuff up until we have some Snowheads on the ground, then I’ll let them take the lead until I’m there.
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Lifts open tomorrow from Tignes.net:
Thanks @chocksaway. I'm assuming the reason that there's only the funicular open on the glacier is because of the amount of snow that's fallen - and that more will be open up there for my visit from 28th November.
Have to say though, the amount that' will be open is a bonus when considering the completely bare slopes of only a few days ago
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151cm?? 
I can't see anything about it on the Tignes website, but am sure that a month or so ago, it was showing as the Grande Motte lifts plus (IIRC?) Tichot, Grattalu, Merles, Palafour, Bollin - and maybe Tufs?
