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Please help, I am trying to find accomodation in any relatively snow sure resort (Europe) which has slopes that would be ok for both beginners and intermediates for four nights over the new year period. Ideally 29/12/05 to 2/1/06.
Either an apartment, chalet or hotel. We would even pay for a whole week if it covered this period!!
Anybody got any ideas.
Many thanks
Begsski
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I have an apartment in Les Arcs which will be available from 30th December. Follow the link in my signature below.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Rob, what would be the cost.
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begsski, welcome to snowHeads 
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begsski,
Welcome to snowheads.
PG runs a couple of flats in Boug St Maurice at the centre point of Tarentaise valley. It is within a few minutes walk to Les Arcs funicular. I spent my last Christmas/new years there. It was the best deal I had. Highly recommend. If there is snow in France this Christmas Tarentaise will have it. Nowhere on earth you can find 1600km of piste within an hour drive. Boug St Maurice is the centre of this massive skiing play ground. Val D, Tignes, Les Arc, 3 Vallees all have 3000m+ altitude so it is as good as you can get.
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| saikee wrote: |
| Nowhere on earth you can find 1600km of piste within an hour drive. Boug St Maurice is the centre of this massive skiing play ground. |
It's good but not that unique. There's plenty of places you could say that of, my house being one at random.
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I think the figure of 1hr and 1600km would depend on how fast the car, and how clear the roads.
ise, Whilst sitting in my office in sunny Teesside (well it is this morning) looking out over the smoke stacks of the industrial North, I always find the little reminders of your new homeland uplifting to say the least. 
(note to self: Start rumour that WMD have being stockpiled by the Swiss under their big hills)
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Frosty the Snowman, there's loads of places that meet that criteria. Anywhere near the Pds, anywhere near the SuperDolomitti area, probably Innsbruck and Bregenz, I'd think Sallanches or Annemasse would do it as well, and the list goes on and on.
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Frosty the Snowman, the total ski area in the Haute Tarentaise valley is at least 1600 kms, and that's a figure that was banded about before the Paradski link opened, all of which is within an hours drive of any of the resorts there. No particularly fast car needed as the furthest resort Tignes is only 33 kms from BSM. However, on a Saturday in peak season it can take a long time, it can take over an hour just to get through BSM.
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Actually, more to the point, who cares anyway? We shouldn't measure skiing by volume anyway, it's a bit sad.
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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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David@traxvax, lot of work going on in the valley now, looks a bit of a mess between Moutiers and Aime with the development of the new voie rapide. Don't know what the plans are for Aime to Moutiers, but I think some sort of bypass is in the pipeline for BSM at least. All in time for the World Championships in Val no doubt.
In the meantime the back road to Aime is ok even during peak season Saturdays, but then it takes an age to get into and through Aime of course.
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ise, I think manyof us would agree that piste kilometreage (?) it is not important. Most skiers I know would be quite happy to spend 6 consecutive days at a resort with 100km of skiing providing that the snow was good and the terrain suited our needs. I would happily ski 1 interesting piste for half a day if it met theses criteria. Ski each run using a diferent path or practising a certain thing, hey its skiing isnt it, otherwise why would we use xscape etc.
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You know it makes sense.
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ise, surely that depends on how quickly you can ski the available piste klicks - there has to be a limit to how much anyone can do in a week? Mind you, then there's the off-piste, the repeat runs in different conditions.... <sigh> hell, I pay £20 to continually go up and down a 200m slope for an hour... If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't get a well-paid job and my wife doesn't speak French, I'd be living down in BSM myself in a flash...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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| TallTone wrote: |
| ise, surely that depends on how quickly you can ski the available piste klicks - there has to be a limit to how much anyone can do in a week? Mind you, then there's the off-piste, the repeat runs in different conditions.... <sigh> hell, I pay £20 to continually go up and down a 200m slope for an hour... If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't get a well-paid job and my wife doesn't speak French, I'd be living down in BSM myself in a flash... |
Measuring skiing by how many km there are and how quick you can ski it is horribly sad. It's package tour punter nonsense at it's peak and deeply depressing.
The people you're with, how well you're skiing or the mountains around you, they're all good ways to measure skiing.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The people you're with, how well you're skiing or the mountains around you, they're all good ways to measure skiing.
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ise, The out of season blues were not to bad until you said this 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| PG wrote: |
David@traxvax, lot of work going on in the valley now, looks a bit of a mess between Moutiers and Aime with the development of the new voie rapide. Don't know what the plans are for Aime to Moutiers, but I think some sort of bypass is in the pipeline for BSM at least. All in time for the World Championships in Val no doubt.
In the meantime the back road to Aime is ok even during peak season Saturdays, but then it takes an age to get into and through Aime of course. |
Avoid saturdays at all costs is my motto! I've had some deeply unpleasant traffic jams, once from Albertville through to Courchevel. More and more tour ops are doing Sunday transfers, and making independent arrangements will sometimes allow you to travel on days other than Saturday.
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| PG wrote: |
| I think some sort of bypass is in the pipeline for BSM |
Where the hell are they gping to put it? BSM is n a valley and goes from one side of it tothe other. How the hell are they going to getr round it? Tunnel through?!?!?
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| nbt wrote: |
| PG wrote: |
| I think some sort of bypass is in the pipeline for BSM |
Where the hell are they gping to put it? BSM is n a valley and goes from one side of it tothe other. How the hell are they going to getr round it? Tunnel through?!?!? |
Presumably on the other side of the river to the twon centre?
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rob@rar.org.uk, yes - the work is scheduled to begin this year, the BSM/Seez bypass will be located on the other side of the river.
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PG, Seez as well ? So, presumably somewhere after Aime is the start and it rejoins after Seez? That's going to improve your life hugely I'd think.
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| PG wrote: |
| rob@rar.org.uk, yes - the work is scheduled to begin this year, the BSM/Seez bypass will be located on the other side of the river. |
How long until completion? This will make a big difference to driving to and through BSM.
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ise, The ring-road starts somewhere close to the westerly BSM delimit sign - it's a separate development to the RN90 Aime / Moutiers section, which is well under way.
Pros and cons though - threat of sidelining BSM - Aime businesses complain this happened to them. Plus the very attractive north side of the river, with its walkways and cycle path will lose most of its charm and some of its facilities.
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rob@rar.org.uk, I've heard 2008 mentioned.
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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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PG, Is it going to go over or under the funicular? Or is everyone on foot to the station have to negotiate an underpass or bridge?
It sounds like there’ll a lot of disruption whilst all this is going on.
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Although the title was one year out we are still talking Christmas and New year time.
As a matter of record I was in Portes du Soleil for 3 days before moving to Bourg last Christmas. The traffic wasn't that bad at this time of the year. Have to agree though the changing over day is a must to avoid. On any other day I would have a job to find a car to overtake.
The total mileage of the piste may be irrelevant but nearly all of us would like to ski different places at different time. For that a car user Bourg st Maurice has a better scope for visiting big resorts than PDS or Dolomites.
Veteran skiers know where to go to avoid crowd and pick nice less-known resorts to enjoy a day or two but newer skiers haven't seen all the big resorts do want to experience the big names and the associated facilities and infrastructure. There is nothing wrong to be dragged along by the surface lifts in a small place in PDS but jumping between massive number of godolas and chairlifts in a big and concentrated resort like Paradiski can be very relaxing too.
I did it last year exactly what begsski wants to achieve, trying to find snow sure resorts. I had more than 2 weeks in my case and went to different resort every day. I wasn't trying to cover distance at all. It was a very enjoyable experience for me just to be able to see so many famous resorts and sample their characteristic in a trip, even though I have visited all of them at one time or another before.
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You know it makes sense.
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Masque, there's a pdf doc map here, on page 22 of the 34, which seems to show it going under the funicular but well beyond the funicular station - virtually alongside the river - so it won't affect people coming on foot from town.
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