 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi all,
I am totally aware that there was an accident on the Cime Caron gondola and I wish everyone injured a speedy recovery. Awfull news, awful for the resort and safety/investigation comes first.
However, on the car of that, they released the opening lifts for Saturday (Funitel Péclet, Funitel Grand fond, TC Moraine, TSD Cascade, TSD Lac Blanc, TSD Portette, TC Cairn, 4 magic carpets). We arrive next week and I'm just trying to work out how you get back to any of the other lifts if you ski down to the Carin Gondola? Once you ski back down the Carin piste, your only option (if Caron and Moutier are closed) is to take the Carin again gondola.... then you are stuck in a loop!?
I know the resort pretty well and I just can't work out how this would be workable... am I missing something?
Cheers
Ben
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Péclet base is makeable from the run down from Cairn top station past Altapura?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| DidierCouch wrote: |
| Péclet base is makeable from the run down from Cairn top station past Altapura? |
I can't quite remember the bottom of the Carin run, but that is a potential solution if you can turn back up the hill a little!
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@bensaunders1973, at the same bottom station as the caron gondola, is the cairn gondola that takes you near enough into the centre of town, you can either ski down directly to a couple of chairs, or there is a path on the left hand side from top of cairn, that you can get to take you to the central lifts, though you do have to take your skis off a couple of times to cross a couple of roads
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| terrygasson wrote: |
| @bensaunders1973, at the same bottom station as the caron gondola, is the cairn gondola that takes you near enough into the centre of town, you can either ski down directly to a couple of chairs, or there is a path on the left hand side from top of cairn, that you can get to take you to the central lifts, though you do have to take your skis off a couple of times to cross a couple of roads |
Thanks, yeah, it does look like you may have to walk, which seems a bit odd. Even opening the new 2 Lacs lift would be beneficial, especially as that now links up to Grand Fond!
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| bensaunders1973 wrote: |
| terrygasson wrote: |
| @bensaunders1973, at the same bottom station as the caron gondola, is the cairn gondola that takes you near enough into the centre of town, you can either ski down directly to a couple of chairs, or there is a path on the left hand side from top of cairn, that you can get to take you to the central lifts, though you do have to take your skis off a couple of times to cross a couple of roads |
Thanks, yeah, it does look like you may have to walk, which seems a bit odd. Even opening the new 2 Lacs lift would be beneficial, especially as that now links up to Grand Fond! |
It's probably just there to give people access to that part of town?
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You can get across from the Cairn piste to Peclet by cutting hard left by the magic carpet (or walk pole a few paces)
More shocking from a brief review of the new lift map is that 2 lacs seems to have moved and turned into a bin. Stay away from Orelle everyone - it's rubbish
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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
You can get across from the Cairn piste to Peclet by cutting hard left by the magic carpet (or walk pole a few paces)
More shocking from a brief review of the new lift map is that 2 lacs seems to have moved and turned into a bin. Stay away from Orelle everyone - it's rubbish |
2 Lacs seems wrong on the Piste map for me as I understand that it now goes higher, so you can ski to the Grand Fond lift from it, but also the green is longer. But I will look next week if they open them!
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@bensaunders1973, there was always a green from the top of Moutiere to the top of Les 2 Lacs. It was a bit irritating and involved a bit of poling if you didn't get enough speed on the first bit. So basically, you now have to ski that annoying bit of green from the top of Les 2 Lacs as well (unless they've done some reprofiling, which is possible).
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| sugarmoma666 wrote: |
| @bensaunders1973, there was always a green from the top of Moutiere to the top of Les 2 Lacs. It was a bit irritating and involved a bit of poling if you didn't get enough speed on the first bit. So basically, you now have to ski that annoying bit of green from the top of Les 2 Lacs as well (unless they've done some reprofiling, which is possible). |
Apparently, the 2 Lacs lift (now a gondola) goes higher than before so the green has been re-profiled at the top. This is from their website...
Starting this winter, the 2 Lacs chairlift will be replaced by a new 10-seater gondola lift that is fast, comfortable and modern.
This device will arrive higher than the previous one, at the start of the BEE zip line, thus offering more skiing to beginners.
At the departure of the cable car, an entrance designed especially for children will make it easier for them to board.
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I'm guessing they need to run Cairn to get people up from the bottom carpark.
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@bensaunders1973, you either cut left below the station, cross 2 roads and get down to ski school/central lifts area.
Or, turn left where all the apartment blocks end, and take the magic carpet up to the school area.
The latter being easier, you don't need to take the skis off
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