 Poster: A snowHead
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This season I am determined to actually do some day trips to other resorts.
So lets start with the infamouse La Rosiere....
Driving up from Bourg, where is best to park?
where do I buy a pass ?
Which lifts?
whats good to do?
wheres good to eat?
what would be a sensible circuit?
PS. Following advice on here I know to go only on a sunny warm windless day 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Boredsurfing,
If Ecudets lift is open then park there
Buy your lift pass there.
Get of the chair at top and ski down to the sevoliere drag. Hideous drag, but jump off on the bend and ski down to Roche Noire lift. Blast Tetras from the top down to Roche Noire again, a fantatsic warm up run. Up top again accross and down to the Fort chair, up and over, down into the Col. 1 drag up, turn left and hammer down to the Piccollo San Bernado Lift, up lift, 2/3 way down to PSB lift hang a right to Fourclaz Lift Bombardino or choccy at Roxy's. Up Fourlclaz and down to La Thuile, always keeping right and going down through the woods on red 6, Up the Bosco Express and then hammer black 3 down to the Bosco Express again, Up and repeat Black 3 (this route misses out the real steep bit at the top of black 3). Collapse into Le Rascard for lunch 
Back to the top of Belvedere, black down to Fourclaz, up Fourclaz down to Belvedere lift, up, and then PSB again top to bottom. Schuss all the way back into France, and do the 3 reds leading to the Fort Chair(Blaireau, Traversett, Blanchot. On the last run skirt around the fort chair, and keeping left schuss to the Eucherts Express. Left off the top, and keeping right, cross Tetras and pick up the path to the Top of Fontaine Froid. If you are lucky then ski one of the nicest runs in the Alps down to the Vieux Chalet at the bottom and oggle at the barmaid when drinking your well deserved beer. If it is shut then download on the chair.
Ooooh I am moist already.
Well you did ask 
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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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Fr0sty the Sn0wman, I think you missed out a few stops 
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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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The concept just involves too much time sitting in a car for so little skiing.
Surely you must be driving for about 20 hours return. For 6 hours skiing.
Although I love skiing, not to this extent
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Christopher, I suspect that the Dark Lord Surfing will be taking the short hop from his baronial pile in Montalbert
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brian
brian
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Christopher, I think he means from Montalbert.
Everyone - Official warning - this thread has now exceeded the official limit for number of posts concerning La Ros without mentioning that it is a top 5 French resort for snow cover. Don't let it happen again! 
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| Boredsurfing wrote: |
| This season I am determined to actually do some day trips to other resorts. |
This is a really good idea...
| Boredsurfing wrote: |
| So lets start with the infamouse La Rosiere.... |
... and that's where the really good idea goes immediately straight off the rails
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How about a day trip to Les Arcs. I hear that someone has rigged up a zip wire accross the valley.
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Frosty the Snowman, been there done that
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Boredsurfing, if you follow [b]Frosty the Snowman's advice you'll have a great day. The only way it could be improved would be for some off-piste either on La Sivoliere or hiking across to the right from the top of the fort chairlift.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Boredsurfing, TRAITOR
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| Fr0sty the Sn0wman wrote: |
| Hideous drag, but jump off on the bend |
I got quite an ear-bashing from a pisteur for doing that (not in La Ros). 
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You know it makes sense.
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laundryman, a good spot to get off that particular drag is at the sign telling you not to!
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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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brian,
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Everyone - Official warning - this thread has now exceeded the official limit for number of posts concerning La Ros without mentioning that it is a top 5 French resort for snow cover. Don't let it happen again!
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You're right better warn that the access roads are rarely open because of the snow fall.
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Poster: A snowHead
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T Bar, sorry T Bar, but the main road is always cleared of snow as soon as it falls.
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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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Boredsurfing, if one was thinking of day trip at Easter then perhaps a shorter itinary would be better to get straight over to the north facing La Thuile. I would imagine La Ros getting fairly soft after lunch
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Fr0sty the Sn0wman, et al. A semi serious La Ros question. I'm off to La Ros in January for the first time. I have a very old piste map given to me some while back of the resort. It appears on that the map that the Ecudets has a mid station (i.e. a black dot in the middle of the lift). On current maps this is not the case. Is there a mid-station? Are the lift and associated runs operating if you can only get half way 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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stevew, There is no mid station. The black and red run merge halfway down, and almost under the lift. The lift will run to uplift and download from the Ecudets car park at the bottom, but unless the piste is open at the bottom then all of the piste will be closed.
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| Fr0sty the Sn0wman wrote: |
| stevew, There is no mid station. |
But! about where the red and black meet, there is a point on the lift where it gets very close to the ground, there is a lot of structural stuff and signs saying 'don't get off here'. I have wondered whether it used to be a mid-station. Does anybody know?
David
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