 Poster: A snowHead
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We plan to ski Courmayeur for 1 day while in Chamonix this weekend, probably Sunday. We have a car and plan to drive rather than ski over so we can control our return trip. Any tips on where to ski, apres ski, park car. Skiers and boarders in group are all advanced. Thanks in advance for any help![/list]
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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WSJ50, park at and use the new(-ish) Dolonne gondola. I know it'll be reasonably busy so it may not be such a joyful experience as when we used it in late March but as far as I can see it's the easiest way up and down the mountain.
Lunch - we recommend "Chiecco" just above Plan Checroute - the owners a little fussy, but the food's magnificent (we lunched there last Saturday...)
Apres - no real idea I'm afraid. We liked the American bar.
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WSJ50, I'd say use the Entreves Gondola as you're coming though the tunnel from Chamonix, it's much closer than Dolonne.
For lunch, I'd recommend the Maison Vielle near the bunny slope. For Apres, there were three main bars last time I went - Bar Roma, American Bar and the Bar Des Guides. However all 3 are in the main town which requires you to drive from either the Entreves or Dolonne Gondolas. Don't think there's any real apreas at the foot of the gondola but it's ten years since I used the Entreves gondola so can't be certain.
If you're alll good skiiers you should be able to tick off every piste on the resort in one day. There's a bit of tree skiing if that's your bag, and if you are reall gnarly dudes there's plenty of proper off piste off the Arp and Youla, maybe worth investing in a guide if you do that as at least one route will take you over towards the access road to a completely different resort
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BTW you can't "ski over" from CHamonix too easily, the only route would be over the Toula Glacier - see the trip report further down this forum! Proper, glaciated off piste, don't ski it unless you know what you're doing
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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 think nbt means the small cable car at Val Veny. Definitely nearer than driving to the Dolonne gondola and plenty of car parking there. However, it's a bit of a circuitous route to get to Plan Chécrouit from there. You have to ski down to Zerotta from the top of the cable car, take the fast chair lift up and then ski down the other side. There's a lovely mountain hut that serves a delicious onion soup on the Pra Neyron blue piste, but typically the piste map doesn't give names of mountain huts. There are simply loads of them in Courmayeur. I did enjoy the food in Chiecco as well as recommended by under a new name.
You can't ski to the bottom of the Val Veny cable car, you'd have to take it back down again. There are no bars there, although Entreves/La Palud is a ten minute walk and there are a handful of bars there. The best après, as described above, is in the centre of Courmayeur, and I've no idea where you'd park. Even the parking at the Dolonne gondola is a fair old hike from there.
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Val Veny, that's the one! The only piste map I have to hand is a low-res one, sorry!
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Thank you all for the quick response and great info!
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WSJ50, ah, yes, Val Veny cablecar (Entreves) may be better idea, completely forgot about it.
Re apres - TBH I'd probably head back to Cham rather than into Courmayeur. Then your driver can relax too.
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queen bodecia, I remember skiing down to the bottom of the Val Veny lift a long long time ago - a school trip so must have been about 1988! Maybe things have changed since then 
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Skimummy, the run called 'Val Veny', essentially a snow road, goes to the bottom of the Zerotta lift. The top of the Val Veny cable car joins this run midway but the bottom station is alongside the main road from the Chamonix tunnel. There are no pistes to that point.
The Zerotta lift is newish I think, a fast detachable chair lift, so I daresay it's all changed around.
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queen bodecia, We definately skied down from the the top of the cable car to the coach waiting in the carpark. It started to get a little muddy towards the end. I was with a rather crazy instructor so maybe it wasn't a marked run (he had taken me off piste from the top of Youla earlier that week and scared the life out of me!)
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queen bodecia, Skimummy, there's plenty of off piste down the Val Veny, and there's a road up there in summer that would make a blue run in winter if passable I suppose - not skied it, but if you compare winter and summer maps, many green and blue pistes are the roads.
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You know it makes sense.
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see the current Helbronner thread which has talked about the other Courmayeur off piste too - see lower down.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Sorry, I've no idea about the off-piste, I'm strictly piste-only.
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Poster: A snowHead
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under a new name,
Just got back from trip to Chamonix and Courmeyeur. Thanks for the lunch tip about Chiecco, it was great.
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