 Poster: A snowHead
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What's the quicker route: into Meribel via Boulevard de la Loze; or in to Courchevel, up to Saulire, down to Mottaret and the 3 chairs?
Tas 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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mottaret via courchevel
take the sources drag to vizelle bubble the into mottaret plattieres bubble to mid station and ski to cote brune chair
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Agree with skimottaret, although it is becoming close using the combination of new fast chair lifts with no need to take skis off and taking in to account the possible queues.
Out of Courchevel from the Sources drag, The Saulire cable car is quicker than the Vizelle bubble (if you don't have to wait for it). Slower alternative is Biollay and Suisse chair - all bring you out at the top of Saulire.
From Mottaret there's the option of the Combes and Chatelet chairs to Cote Brun - rather than Plattieres 1 and 2 bubble. Don't think there will be much in this - (and you don't have to take your skis off).
However.... Is it possible to stay high and left on the Boulevard de la Loze and then traverse between the pistes to get over far enough and straight down to Mottaret? Any thoughts skimottaret, ?
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kkev, the saulire cable is only running one car, this may be fixed by the time tas goes so it is taking a long time to queue up.
the chari combination is pretty quick as well, as you say probably not much in it but the chatelet chair is getting busy. if no queue at plattiere i would take the bubble or if it is a nice day take the chair 
boulevard de la loze shuts often and can be slow
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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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note the OP was asking from La Tania. The key I found was to traverse as high as possible from the top of the Lanches chair, and cut across a few pistes, under Pas Du Lac lift before dropping down into the bottom of the Plattieres eggs/Combes chairlifts as kkeve says.
I reckon that is lots quicker than dropping back to Saulire.
edit after reading skimottarets comment - if you take the Lanches chair out of La Tania you will quickly see if boulevard de la loze is shut/busy and adopt your strategy accordingly 
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cut across a few pistes
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kitenski, your right but you can easily end up in meribel if you dont know where you are going...plus the travers is quite slow
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Thanks for all this: the Saulire bubble comment is a worry: I've not seen any reference to it on Courchnet, for example.
As for cutting across from Bd del al loz, that looks trciky from the map..
TAS
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tas, one of the cable cars got smashed up during a trial run in the early season and was removed. By memory they were supposed to repair it and have both cars running in feb but i could be wrong on timing
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skimottaret, Both cars were running when I arrived there on Jan 19th.
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Wags, good to know ta...
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