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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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This might be a silly question but why would they regrade so many pistes? Surely the terrain they're on is the main factor and they aren't going to change that - is it that someone's decided they were wrongly graded?
Incidentally I am going to Vallandry and thinking about getting the Discovery lift pass that gets me a single visit over to La Plagne side of the Vanoise Express. However someone has said the runs around the La P side of the lift although blue, get very icy and I wouldn't like them - is that really the case? Would I get over there and have a problem and end up just crossing back again, or worse still getting stuck??? Can you go over and actually get somewhere as a 'foot' passenger - if so that would reassure me that if the skiing was out of my comfort zone I would not be stuck!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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The run from the bottom of the golf chair towards Montalbert (cornodguille (sp)) has always struck me as red, but is listed as blue. I have never skied it ice free.
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Hands up who is no longer going to take a tried and tested run anymore because it has now been graded red as opposed to blue? You know who you are.... 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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NewSkier, I remember being a third week skier and being taken down to either Montchavin or Les Coches by our ski instructor. It was a long run through trees, and beign January fairly dark. It was a blue piste, but had a short ,steep and very icy section which at the time I thought should have been black . I got a big bruise when I fell on it. However, there are many other runs down, and most are fairly straightforward.
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NewSkier, the blues down to the La Plagne side of the Vanoise Express can get a bit icy if the snow is anything less than good. In my experience more icy than the blues down to Vallandry, although I'm not sure why this would be the case. I don't think that there is much that you could do as a foot passenger - the La Plagne side of the lift does not end up in a village like it does at Plan Peisey, so the only think you can do is ski away from it or walk down a piste.
Although it is nice to have to opportunity to travel some distance to other resorts and see some new terrain, I don't think you are going to be short of choice in Les Arcs. There is a great long-distance route you can take on blues from Vallandry, up to Col de Chal (where the ice grotto is), down to Arc 2000, then Arc 1950, above Arc 1600, across to Arc 1800 and finally back to Peisey. That's covering just as much mileage as a trip across to Belle Plagne and back.
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brian
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| NewSkier wrote: |
| Surely the terrain they're on is the main factor and they aren't going to change that |
You would think so but a lot of alpine resorts are pretty handy with the bulldozers. They'd never get away with it here !
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NewSkier, As Rob says above conditions can be difficult for ice etc as the area is low, however more snowmaking has been out in this summer details on perso-laplagne. It's worth coming over just for the experience of the Vanoise Express, last winter we were able to look down on two Golden Eagles circling in the valley below. Once across there is a restaurant a short walk from the lift.
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Bulldozers to re-grade slopes? 
Exhibit A your Honour 
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NewSkier, depends how much you've skied before and how confident you are. If you can ski a red in good conditions, then you should be able to cope down to the Vanoise in icy conditions, but it wouldnt be too enjoyable - no point pushing yourself when theres plenty in Les Arcs for a relative beginner/ intermediate
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boredsurfin, Thanks for the info about the restaurant & that the trip itself's worthwhile (on a good day!). Can you get a simple 'foot fare' ticket to go over & back? Oh and Exhibit A - well, I am stunned!
Nadenoodlee, Thanks for this - it confims what I was told. I can't ski all BLUES yet, so perhaps my skis will stay the Les Arcs side! I am banking on the La Foret living up to its reputation as the longest 'green' in Europe and being somewhere that I can work on my confidence!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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NewSkier,
Why don't you see what the snow conditions are like when you arrive. I did the same Discovery option in reverse last year (staying in La Plagne and spent a day in Les Arc. La Plagne has some great skiing and I think it's a shame to be so close and not have a look, even for one day. If you feel that snow conditions aren't good then don't buy the Decouverte lift pass.
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Just thinking - realised I am having lessons Mon-Fri and we fly home Sat, so I wouldn't be able to spend a whole day out anyway. So I might get the Les Arcs pass, and perhaps buy just a non-skiing return ticket to have the ride, if that is possible or get a half-day skiers one if the weather's good and my confidence is up to it.
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You know it makes sense.
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boredsurfin, .... are there really restaurants on the Les Arcs side .... ? 
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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NewSkier,
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boredsurfin, Thanks for the info about the restaurant & that the trip itself's worthwhile (on a good day!). Can you get a simple 'foot fare' ticket to go over & back? Oh and Exhibit A - well, I am stunned!
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Dunno! Good question, wander over to the lift and ask the lifties they are very friendly!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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boredsurfin,
Who is gwoodlord?
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gwaelod, never coold type pwoper 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Hywel, Plagne Centre is only 1 lift from Belle Plagne. Straight down to Bellecote and up the Colossus to Plagne Villages. I prefer BP to Villages, excellent access to everywhere.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Michael B wrote: |
| I prefer Belle Plagne to Villages, excellent access to everywhere. |
But you MUST to go to Bellecote...
And there's many (too many in fact) people in Bellecote...
Plagne Villages is near Plagne Centre, you are at 3 minutes of the Funiplagne by example...
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You know it makes sense.
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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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Of course. I forgot it ! (Shame on me !)
But it's a long way... I never go to Roche de Mio by the Gondola...
So...ok ! My post was stupid !
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Poster: A snowHead
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RG, ..... an error ...... just an error .....!
...you're forgiven ... no need to wear sack-cloth and ashes all season....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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But Belle Plagne has just this lift...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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And doesn't the lift comes up from Bellecote so will be full anyway?
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I suppose that when we must wait 45 minutes in Bellecote to take the Gondola, it's difficult to take it in Belle Plagne, but I don't know...
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Absolutely mid-station is a nightmare and have you tried the toilet there ................................. 
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So, my post was not so stupid ! 
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Hywel, I think the answer to your question has rather got lost in the general snowheads banter.
My advice is go for Belle Plagne.
Plagne Village is a one-horse ghetto on the outskirts of Plagne Centre, which is itself a ghastly crowded conglomerate of ancient high rise apartment blocks and burger bars.
Belle Plagne is up the mountain, above the smog, with lovely views and excellent access to all areas of La Plagne.
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| Absolutely mid-station is a nightmare and have you tried the toilet there |
Is there a public toilet in La Plagne? for a skier without coins I mean.
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There are toilets on the slope, by example at arrival of Arpette Chairlift.
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