Poster: A snowHead
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I'm lucky enough to be in Bacqueira this coming weekend and am luckier enough to have a few (just a few or I'd be heading to Utah!) unexpected inter-employment days off. I could stay in B-B but I like exploring.
Plan A is to head up to the Tarentaise (I've never skied Les Arcs but always wanted to check out Apocalypse country).
Problem - I've checked with SNCF for trains but they are routing me overnight through Paris (!?) which seems rather a long diversion
Anyone got any better suggestions? I'm also thinking La Grave & a guide. Any ideas considered. If you're suggesting a resort/area; I'm quite adventurous, I'll ski anything that's stable and am happy to hire local knowledge if fun/sensible/necessary. Am also happy to skin up and use shank's pony for uplift. I can change my queasyjet return flight to return out of Geneva/etc.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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unfortunately, as I recall from when I used to liv down there, Fench railways are vrey much hub based and the route through paris may be the best way of doing it.
there's bags of skiing in the pyrenees though - how about heading fruther west and visiting bareges in France or La Molina in spain?
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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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Thanks nbt, I'll investigate, it's a region I know very little about. That said, I'm staying in Bacqueira with some very hospitable locals who'll point me in the right direction if I stay down there.
Cheers
DM
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David Murdoch, If you're using the www.sncf.fr the programme automatically gives you the simplest option - ie just one change in Paris, even if it does result in an 11/12 hour journey.
If you enter Toulouse to Lyon however, then do another search Lyon to Bourg St Maurice, you can see the alternatives. Three changes - Montpellier, Lyon, Chambery or Aix - but a quicker journey overall if you time it right. It's four and a half hours Toulouse to Lyon, one quick change in Montpellier, then four hours Lyon to BSM with one change. Possible to combine the two parts in nine hours, by my calculation.
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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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PG, I wondered whether that would work. Thanks for putting in the spadework.
DM
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David, I can't believe I posted my Baqueira message and then saw yours!!!! Where are you staying and how long for? Have you been before? I'm there with the missus, the neighbours and their kids and a mate. Not been before but I've done my research and am quite excited.....having seen the snow report I'm even more excited...check out the latest photos on www.baqueira.es Let me know where' you'll be. We're staying just down the road in Tredos in a lovely hotel there. I must admit booking everything has been a trifle difficult because they try to centralise everything through an agency. In the end I contaced the hotel direct.
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