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Bareges/La Mongie
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Hi
Has anyone been to either or both of these resorts and can give some advice eg re access to lifts runs etc?
Obviously
A snowHead
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elaine63
, Welcome to Snowheads. A search of the site comes up with a number of results put Bareges or Mongie into
here.
There are also a couple of infrequent posters who live there
in gabure we trust
being one (the other is his partner
mountainbug
). Might be worth sending him a PM (send/receive messages under the snowheads symbol). They run a chalet there and also do guiding, etc, their website is called I believe mountainbug.
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?
elaine63
, I've been to Bareges, the village is quiet and very laid back it doesn't really feel like a ski town, accomodation is mostly shoebox apartments and some 2 star hotels which looked reasonably priced, if there is good snow there is skiing immediately above the town, if you go later in the season you take a ski bus or quick drive up the valley to access a six pack which takes you up to the top of the Col de Tourmalet where you can either ski over to the La Mongie area or back down and play around under that lift and another button lift. La Mongie is purpose built, similar architecture to Les Arcs and those kinds of places it has the advantage of being ski in ski out. I thought the lift infrastructure was amazing, plenty of modern fast lifts. The ski area is a good size, mostly intermediate cruising but I spent 3 days with a guide very late season and skied some great stuff including a gnarly couloir which hadn't been skied all season although it took an hour steep climb to get to it. If you love off piste take a guide and head up the pic du midi, for me it is one of the great lift accessed mountains anywhere in the World, you have the choice of anything from 1000m vertical of 35 degrees on one side to couloirs of 50+ degrees on the other which would give anything the Bec de Rosses in Verbier or La Grave has to offer. I would love to go back but would probably do it as part of a road trip with other resorts.
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