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I just read a report on La Rosiere and apparantly it is a bit top heavy on drag lifts and T bars. I am a boarder and find Drags such a pain, they take so long and you tend to get cramp in your foot.
has anybody been there who can confirm this rumour?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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mheadbee, if you want to link to La Thuile, there's a long drag across. I don't remember that many otherwise.
This pdf map will allow you to judge for yourself 
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mheadbee, to be honest there are only two drag lifts that you need to worry about in La Ros. The first is the main link to La Thuile, it's long but not very steep and can be tortuously cold - if you fall off your in the middle of nowhere, but it's not a difficult drag. You can avoid the other linking drag by dropping down to San Bernardo (sp) chair, which in my view is a far more pleasant intro into La Thuile after one freezing drag. The other problematic drag is the one used to return from the Les Ecdeuts (sp) chair right at the bottom of the resort, this is a far more fearsome drag, steep and a kickers but not as long, but this can be avoided if your really want to by using a green path back into resort - now that would be a pain for a boarder - as a skier I avoid it because of the pole work involved.
All the other drags can be avoided by sensible use of the chairs - hope this helps 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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The drags to La THuile are horrendous and put me off going back to La Ros to be honest
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As stevew, said the drag to LA Thuile is dead easy but fairly long and in 4 trips I have never taken the 2nd drag and always skied to the Fourclaz lift. Also one would only do this once a day. The Sevoliere drag back from the Ecudets area is a brute but you can jump of at the "DO NOT GET OFF HERE ".... but it is a shame to misss out on Ecudets and Fontaine Froid if they are open. Apart from that the other drags can always be avoided.
Never used a drag in La Thuile.
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I was in La Ros for a week last year, my other half is a boarder and apart from the drag link to La Thuile there was no probs with drag lifts in La Ros, it was my partners 4th week on his board and he never once came off etc although he did say it was a pain in the !!!
there is no t-bars there, or none that we came across anyways,
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Thank you, I feel better now.
I just got back from a week in Chatel and a great ski area is let down by far too old and rickety lift systems based on drags.
I do not have an issue with a few or the odd long one, but I read a snowboarders guide to the world and they made a point of it in La Ros. I remember going to courchevel 1650 about 5 years ago and it was drag lift city, i dont mind the odd one but it is the super long ones that do you in. You get over a brow of a hill and see you are only half way up and your leg starts to cramp up. You get off the lift and need a bloomin rest before you set off!
I will be taking off in any direction I can if I see a route to get off half way up.
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mheadbee, there are 39 lifts in the Espace San Bernardo; I cable car, 18 chairlifts, 17 drag lifts & 3 conveyors, no T-bars. The drag lifts to Italy are long but they're not steep and you do have the best views of Mont Blanc to enjoy. As FtS points out it's not difficult to plan your route so you don't have to use drags, apart from going to Italy and returning from Fontaine Frois
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| As stevew, said the drag to LA Thuile is dead easy but fairly long and in 4 trips I have never taken the 2nd drag and always skied to the Fourclaz lift. |
Agree - never taken the 2nd drag.
We have always cut off down to the Piccolo San Bernardo Express - there are a couple of quick reds that lead down to this area. the best hot chocolate is to be found in the little rifugio/cafe just to the left as you ski down.
Next stop after that will be the Rascard of course, some hours later 
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| CP wrote: |
| the best hot chocolate is to be found in the little rifugio/cafe just to the left as you ski down. |
Yup -especially after the freezing drag! Just love the glass door to the loo though
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mheadbee, Went to La Ros last year, dont really remember any drags apart from the infamous long ones across to italy but you only need to take the first oneThe other one a short one that takes you to a lovely green run La Foret which had bumps and jumps through the trees, our kids idea of heaven, they spent almost all the holiday on that drag and run
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I was disappointed with the hot chocolate at that san bernando area cafe and the price. Seem to remember hole in the ground loos on the Italian side too! We skied down the san bernando area in heavy snow and there was an eerie buzzing noise coming from the electric pylons which unerved me slightly. After that we took the second drag to La Thuile instead.
Nevertheless we really enjoyed skiing the rest of la rosiere and la thuile and would highly recommend the resort. Best cafe we found was at the bottom of a red run called fontaine froid (I think) in La Rosiere - it was a log cabin type with lovely smell of woodsmoke from the woodburner. Nice hot chocolates and waffles and hardly anyone there!
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