 Poster: A snowHead
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hi there.
friends have told me they have skied at certain resorts who open a run at night under flood lights. anyone know if they do this is the Paradiski ski area?
Cheers
Rich
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yup, the main slalom run into Plagne Centre is open certain nights
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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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Arc 1800 runs the Chantel nursery slope under floodlights twice a week. AIUI, Arc 2000/1950 also have night skiing a couple of times a week.
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| rob@rar wrote: |
| Arc 2000/1950 also have night skiing a couple of times a week. |
Tuesday and Thursday evenings the 'marmottes' run is open. I looked at it most evenings thinking that looks fun but then remembered I am looking at it from inside a double glazed window and its about -20 outside and went back to to a true alpine evening skiing tradition, wine and food:-D
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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 have skied Marmottes (Arc 2000) at night. It is great. Do it!
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the lights were on a run down to Monthchavin (la plagne) last night.
personally I think night skiing is a 'do it once' approach - it's cold and the pistes are pretty icy..plus if you've done 09:00 to 17:00 then a vin chaud and some tartiflette is a better option that more skiing.
Sometimes the floodlight runs are dull, certainly chantel couldn't be called exciting - at least with the marmottes lift in 2000 you have a choice of about 3 routes back to bottom..and one of them has a vaguely steep pitch, and on the other you can find some bumps..
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You could always take your own lighting...
On the stadium run at Plagne Centre last Tuesday for Mardi Gras.
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bertie bassett, Indeed there's one way down marmottes with no light at all, just a glow from the spots on the other runs, and the sparks off the skis - presumably on rocks or pebbles showing through - but is very exhilarating.
IIRC last week they run it is early March, as the evenings begin to lighten up there not a lot to differentiate it from just being a long day.
Oh, and there's no piste music by 1950 this year - apparently during the summer, someone drove up in a van, unplugged them all, and drove off with the lot. I'm told it wasn't a disgruntled apartment owner - although how they can tell...
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I've done a run in the dark a time or 2 from a mountain hut back to resort and last month actually used the floodlit run in Hinterglemm a good few times too. It feeds the run back down one side of it for some piste action as well as the boarder park the other side of it.
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