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From the Televerbier website
"Great improvements for Medran in 2010
A major face-lift has been given to the lift station at Medran this summer. As a result, a new improved welcome zone awaits all you snow aficionados for the 2010/11 winter season. The reception area has been redesigned to regroup the Verbier Sport + and Televerbier cash-desks, and custom serviced ski and boot lockers (complete with heating and disinfection systems) have been set up for your absolute comfort after the ski day – simply drop your ski equipment off at Medran, and head for the new Nespresso bar to enjoy a delicious coffee or an aperitif and a snack. Furthermore, clients returning to Verbier from Ruinettes, or making their way from Verbier to Le Châble, will benefit from two new escalators put into place to better service their needs.
New ski pass scanners for your convenience
The installation of ski pass scanners using the latest technology will make for a smoother, quicker access to the slopes. While every lift facility across the ski area will be upgraded with this system over the next two years, priority will be given for this coming season to the following high traffic lifts: Attelas 2, Chaux 2, Lac 1, Lac 3, Chaux-Express (from Ruinettes) and La Chaux.
A new look for the Mont Fort lift
Following suit to the Tortin – Gentianes cable-car, it is now up to the Gentianes - Mont Fort (Mont-Fort 2) lift to get its makeover, with the arrival of two new cabins produced by CWA, a company based in Solothurn. We have taken this opportunity to connect the top of the Mont-Fort to the electric network, thus ensuring power to the new cable-car’s access gates, as well as to the igloo snack bar on top of the Mont-Fort. The unpleasant smells emitted by the generator that once supplied the highest permanently operated igloo in Europe (3,300m) will now be a thing of the past.
A loading carpet for the Lac des Vaux 3 chairlift
In order to facilitate access and improve safety and comfort to the Lac 3 fixed-gripped chairlift, a new carpet loading access has been installed. This will ensure a better flow of this very busy lift"
The escalators at Medran will be the biggest improvment. !!!!. Does anyone have news on the new lift from Carrfour across to Savolyes ?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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It was scheduled for next year, I'm told that has been put back by one year at least and that the whole project is under review as there is some rare lichen/lizzard or something that the enviroterrorists are getting up in arms about
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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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escalators!!! at last. long overdue, the amount of people down-lifting who half kill themselves on those steep concrete steps is ridiculous. the lac de vaux carpet will only help if the lifties at least pretend to pay attention when people fall over on them...... but still an improvement.
anyone got any news on the massive earthworks going on around the medran carparks?
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| rungsp wrote: |
| It was scheduled for next year, I'm told that has been put back by one year at least and that the whole project is under review as there is some rare lichen/lizzard or something that the enviroterrorists are getting up in arms about |
Ya.. how dare they put the interests of a living species in front of some people who can't be bothered to hike the mountain they love to ski.
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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 was in Verbier a couple of weeks ago Mountain Biking, and they were doing a lot of work around the Medran Base station. The car park was closed off and was a building site, and we had to access the lift via a side entrance up the slope at the side.
Mind you, the one time I used the Medran for skiing last winter, the queue to get on the lift was about an hour, stretching out into the car park. I'm not sure an escalator would help much. I'm hoping this was a one-off though - it was on a beautiful Saturday, the day after a massive dump. I thought Saturdays were supposed to be quiet change-over days too! Maybe some Verbier regulars can put me right?
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Whitters, I think the only time I have seen a mega queue like that is are as the conditons you have described.
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gilo, the earthworks are for the construction of les trios rocs. An hotel, apartment & commercial centre and they'll go on for a couple of years yet.
Whitters, not everyone goes skiing for a week Saturday to Saturday. Apart from locals there are huge numbers that come up from Geneve and Lausanne at the prospect of conditions like you describe.
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Thanks for the replies
I was one of those who came up from between Geneva and Lausanne for the day and so added to the chaos!
Next time I'll head up from Le Châble rather than Medran
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Whitters, you came all that way and drove up to Verbier instead of stopping in Le Chable (where the longest queue I have ever had in 5 years was 3 cabins)??
HAHAHAHAHA
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rungsp, well it was the first time I'd been to Verbier, so I had no idea what that lift served. Know better now.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Whitters, send a PM or something when you know your plans and if we are there we can meet up for a slide around the 4 Valleys if you like.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Steve Sparks, thought that might be it but couldn't believe they'd actually gotten started, I've been admiring the pretty model next to Dani sports for the last 3 seasons!!
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rungsp, thanks for the offer. See you in the winter!
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