 Poster: A snowHead
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We're flying off to Sauze d'Oulx for a week tomorrow, and have noticed online that there are a lot of lift closures at the minute - depending on where I look maybe over 50% of the lifts (12 of 22) are apparently closed.
Just wondering if anyone who's there / been recently knows why? Are the snow conditions so bad at the moment that half of the area is un-skiable? Or are the lifts just a bit rubbish?
Anyone know what Sauze is like at the minute?
David
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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 think the snow conditions are very good looking from webcams over towards that area from other parts of the milky way, even though Sauze is the most unreliable. the snow is much better this year. It may be due to wind?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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David,
Going myself later in season, was wondering same thing and came across this in a response to same issue on "Sauzeonline" website.
"Although a very valid question dont be alarmed. All the main lifts are open and also all the links to other resorts are open so there's plenty to go at. Its the less used lifts that in some cases rarely open that are closed. Fear not".
Or as an alternative here is a reader review just back from Sauze from SCGB site.
"Oddly in Jan 2008 several lifts and runs weren't operating despite snow conditions appearing to be perfect, rumours were this was mainly due to low season manpower savings. Didn't really make much difference as there are 400kms to ski."
Nothing conclusive there but all I could find. From the few reports I have read it appears that the snow is holding up at moment so you should be ok.
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scuby, Sauze is a bit infamous for it's ancient lift system... they need to put their hands in their pockets over there - you spend too long going up and not enough coming down 
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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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well I'm sure they still have money from the Olympics.
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I got back from 5 days in Sauze last Wednesday.
We had 4 days skiing in fantastic conditions (lots of snow + sun + 90% of lifts open) and a day of ferocious winds on Wednesday, when a lot of the higher lifts were closed because of it.
I don't think you'll have any problems once the weather settles down. It's a fantastic ski area with some great high speed, relatively steep cruising - especially the tree lined runs above Sansicario which are not to be missed!
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Christopher, oh, why ?
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Well because the venues recieved a hell of a lot of money. Im sure not all of it has been spent. I don't know for sure, I imagine they do.
According to a local taxi driver thought what they did spend money on wasn't very useful afterwards. The freestyle course they built isnt used often due to being directly in the sun and the snow melts often.
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There's been some kind of financial problems with the ownership of the lifts recently, from what I've heard. When we were there a fortnight ago half the lifts were shut despite perfect conditions. I think they're just turning them off because they can't afford to run them, especially when the resort is fairly empty.
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Just to update now that i'm back, although there were lifts closed (though no-where near half of them) they weren't ones that mattered. Often it was one of two lifts which run in parallel, and it was quiet enough that the second lift wasn't needed. The only one that would have been useful would have been the single-seat chairlift that avoids the bowl between Sauze and Sestriere, just to help those who weren't too happy on drag lifts.
Lovely place last week though - could sit and look down from the chairlift and see maybe 2km of piste with only one or two people on it! Most I ever had to wait for a lift all week was a couple of minutes, and that was the Saturday before we came home.
David
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FAQ
Apparently Sestriere got all the olympic $$$$ 
But hey once you can get over there plenty of fun to be had 
