 Poster: A snowHead
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Having seen details of the 3 Vallees Escapade, a couple of weeks ago Mrs MA and I made up an equivalent 'Ski the whole of Espace Killy in a day' jaunt - aka 'The Espace Killer Loop.'
We started at Tignes Val Claret and the day went like this:
Tichot Chair at 09.00 then worked our way up, across and down to Les Brevieres via the Aiguille Percee.
Gondola out of Les Brevieres.
Up Aiguille Rouge chair from top of the gondola and skied down to Le Lac.
Aeroski then down to La Daille.
Funival then down to bottom of Santons draglifts.
Up Santons drag.
Up Grand Pre Chair.
Down past bottom of Fontaine Froide Chair and down Santons run to Val D'Isere.
Solaise Chair.
Piste L gully run closed due to avalanche risk so took the more circuitous Germain Mattis run to Le Laisinant chair.
Down Table D'Orientation run then Foret piste to bottom of Le Fornet cable car.
Up cable car.
All glacier lifts closed - so quick run off Pyramides Express chair.
Up gondola towards Pissailas Glacier.
Next, took the up and over Leissieres Express and back to the top of Solaise.
Down Solaise to Olympique gondola.
From there to Tommeuses chair.
Down to Val Claret and Lanches and Vanoise chairs up Grande Motte glacier.
Cable car to top shut - so Leisse run instead.
Back down to Val Claret via Double M.
Time in hand so up Tichot and Grattalu chairs.
Just enough time to catch Grand Huit chair, which closed at 16.45, so did that and finished by skiing down to Le Lac.
Next time we would ski it differently - eg miss out the black and bumpy Foret run at Le Fornet as the alternative blue run would be faster and easier. We also want to do it when both glacier areas have the top lifts open.
And for completeness, we should really include Les Boisses....
Anyway, as it was, it filled the day nicely and we skied 37,000 feet vertical.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nice - my boyfriend loves skiing the far corners of resorts so will keep this in mind.
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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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mountainaddict, that's great. I'm going to copy and paste this into my Val D'Isere Yipeeee thread for my own future reference if that is ok.
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shoogly,
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for my own future reference if that is ok.
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Yes, that would be ok. As long as you only refer to the route and don't reproduce it by skiing it. mountainaddict, has a copyright on it! 
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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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| it filled the day nicely |
Important not to get bored when on holiday.
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Important not to get bored when on holiday.
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Exactly! But even more important not to get board on holiday 
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