 Poster: A snowHead
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Following on from the "Best Run" thread, what's your favourite method of getting to the top in the first place? Be it skins, autogyro, train or lift?
Starting off, my favourite may well be the train from Lauterbrunnen to KS...
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Kleine Matterhorn cable car - view of the glaciers
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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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Love the Aiguille de Midi... valley floor to high mountain in the blink of an eye
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Eurocopter "A-star"
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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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Fisrt lift of the holiday - chairl lift. To see the freshly goomed piste below. it will of course be empty as we are on the 1st lift  Just not the same in an enclosed space.
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I was just about to post that, you beat me to it.
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| Wildsmith wrote: |
| Kleine Matterhorn cable car - view of the glaciers |
Agreed - and the new gondola taking you up to the cable car from the village in one go is pretty special too, particularly compared to the slow and fragmented journey up there before.
Another favourites is the 'Lessieres' (I think) chairlift at Val D'Isere - the one that takes you up over the ridge and all the way back down again. Hearing the screams when people don't know what to expect (or even if they do) when they go over the peak is like something from Alton Towers.
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rob@rar, trust you to come up with that 
Heiligenblut Tunnelbahn - it is not the best lift in terms of views for reasons which will become apparent...but is one of the most memorable lifts I've ever used. It was a contraption which can best be described as a gondola "train". It didn't travel overground in the normal way but went underground through a tunnel which was used for the channeling of water in the summer months. Reminded me of ghost train rides when I was a kid.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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gd renard, les arcs - old slow and useless, but avoids the gapers good and proper..
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The Schindlergrat chairlift is ace - old old open rusty two or three man, but the views as you go over the ridge are awesome.
Or a heli/snowcat/snowmobile. Reindeer riding would be pretty sweet too.
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You know it makes sense.
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| clarky999 wrote: |
| The Schindlergrat chairlift is ace - old old open rusty two or three man, but the views as you go over the ridge are awesome. |
However it can be damn cold, as we experienced in March this year 
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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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not an uplift but the first time i got that chair from le fornet over the top into val was pretty special
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Poster: A snowHead
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nothing beats getting on the old beat up singleman chair at glencoe 
it's probably the slowest lift in scotland, well apart from the chairlift at Hillend!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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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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Arno, Ah La Grave, yes.
(I've only done a few single days from there to Alp d'Huez)
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I like old creaky wooden chairlifts. It reminds me of a simpler time in my life.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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What? Before you were old and creaky?
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maggi, indeed!
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Eurocopter "A-star" another vote for that. Actually some times it's nice to get the old thighs burning and hike
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I love the sound a chairlift makes as it goes over a pylon.
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| Whitters wrote: |
| Another favourites is the 'Lessieres' |
Yup - like that one
Also the second stage of the cable car at St Anton that goes over the huge valley
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i guess someone had to drag (sic) the thread down to another level 
back on topic, used to like the lift in Mayrhofen. 1 pylon along the entire lengh (excluding the essential bits at each end), and it goes round a slight corner for effect (enhanced if there's someone with serious vertigo in the cabin).
also used to like the old quad chair at champoussin. like a moonscape up there, and not a single sound to be heard (except the rattle when the chair goes over the pulleys).
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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andy, Is that the main Penken lift?
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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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the little downhill poma by the middle station in ischgl is fun - doesnt really count as uplift though!
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The modern detachable 6 or 8 man chairs especially if you get one to yourself 
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You know it makes sense.
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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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^^^ poser
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Poster: A snowHead
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The Carpark T-bar on CairnGorm Mountain when there's a class of beginners in front and you get to the downhill section! 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Top ticket on GM Chamonix, especially on a powder day, the level of excitement is electric.
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