 Poster: A snowHead
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Ey up all,
As many of you will know after i've bored you to detah with it, I'm heading out to Val early December.
Although I've prayed, crossed parts of the body and generally begged for it to snow I am aware that there may be a slight lack of it at resort level that early in the season. If that's the case, will the lifts still be running from the resort?
Also, if the terrain linking Val to Tignes isn't that boardable what's it like for links between the two? Is there a bus service running between the two resorts?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Specialman, there is a cheap time bus service between the two - maybe every two hours or so ?
Better chance of snow at Tignes Val Claret resort level (2000m), and loads of snow making facilities to top it up, no idea what it could be like in Val D though at resort but I remember it being patchier than Tignes Val Claret when I was there a few Decembers ago
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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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Can't comment on the links, only been there pre-season.
There's a regular bus service tignes-bourg and back, don't know if it also goes upto VDI but I'd assume it does. Given the nature of the one-way valley then hitching seems pretty accepted especially if hitcher is obviously a skier/boarder. Wouldn't be hard to hitch to the junction from VDI and if you're driver is heading down, the get out and hitch back up the other side to tignes. It's probably about a 20 minute trip in dry conditions and possibly more if snowy..
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Above 2500m it's fine at the moment and I'm sure come the last week of November, as temps drop, there will be some snow. Just want to cover options, plus I've heard a lot about Tignes and thought that if we're getting the full area pass we might as well take advantage of it. I suppose that if anything, at leats there's the glaciers 
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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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I don't know why anyone would say there would be any problem boarding between Val and Tignes  Nice sharp ridge with lifts and runs down each side.
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snowball, never been there before and piste maps are undeniably not that good at showing you the 'real' terrain.
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If you are in VdI after the official resort opening date, then IME if there is insufficient snow to ski in VdI, they run a bus around to Tignes.
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The links from Val D to Tignes are using the Tommeusse or the Borsat Express chair lifts from the Bellevarde areas. Easy enough even for a snowboarder.
The links back from Tignes to Val D are the Tufts or Col De Fresse chair lifts from Val Claret or the Aeroski gondola from Tignes le Lac.
Val D has it's own smaller glacier in Le Fornet, which you can get to using the chair lifts or the bus runs from Val D to Le Fornet.
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