 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi all
thinking of the first week of January in Tignes Les Breviere, and wondered about sking back to the village. I know every year is different but has any one any experience they can share.
thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Great place to stay in general, though obviously a bit of a strain to get to the extremes of Val D and back. Snow wise you'll have nae bother. Go for it.
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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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Snow cover will be fine, and worst worst worst case you'd simply catch the gondola down. If some kind of utter catastrophe happened, you could still get a bus from any other part of Tignes to Les Boisses, and then a gondola up, gondola down!
But no. Snow cover will be fine, except if something truly extraordinary happens.
If you've got a car, you can get a head start on the 'to Val D and back' excursion by driving round to Le Lac and parking under the Office du Tourisme - the pedestrian exit then comes out onto the snow, right next to that Aeroski lift. I did that every day on my trip there in March, and the drive took about 12 minutes.
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johnjeff, Best place to ski from in EK IMO and free car parking, great pizzas at L'Armailee (if thats how its spelt.............the one across the bridge with the big cooking pot outside anyway). Snow will be fine, save some gas in the tank (or legs) for that last run home though 
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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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Hi
thanks for your help folks, its always good to get local knowledge.
cheers
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johnjeff, Last year there was about 3 metres of the stuff at that time!
The runs down from the Tignes links don't get much sun and so hold their cover pretty well and as other have said worst comes 2 the worst you can easily downride the bubble.
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And providing you are reasonably quick on a red you can easily do all 4 corners of the E-K piste map in a day 
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Do not even worry about it!
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Do not even worry about it!
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Seriously don't worry about it.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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If I were you, I would indulge myself in only a bare minimum of worry.
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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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Hi all
thinking of the first week of January in Tignes Les Breviere, and wondered about sking back to the village. I know every year is different but has any one any experience they can share.
thanks |
If the runs to Brev (1550m) aren't open by then, the other resorts in the region will be in BIG trouble! In my 4 seasons in Tignes the runs to Brev were open for Xmas, and stayed open past Easter.
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You will be very unlucky not to be able to ski down to Brev. It always possible to take the Brevieres chair lift down from Tignes Les Boisses at the end of the day. Suspect it would be about 1630 closure at that time of year. You can take the free bus down to Les Boisses from the other villages. Was in Brev. a couple of years ago for a fortnight in April. It was boiling but still managed to get down to Brev apart from the last few days when we took the chairlift
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You know it makes sense.
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Mr Piehole,
Do you have to pay for the car parking and if so how much (I'm going to be doing the drive/ski thing to Tignes nearly next 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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| Great place to stay in general, though obviously a bit of a strain to get to the extremes of Val D and back |
I timed it back from the top of the glacier at Le Fornet (ie furthest point of Val D'Isere) to Les Brev last year....
If I remember corectly, in end of season mush (late April/early May) Mrs MA and I spent about 35 mins on the lifts and completed the trip in about 1 hour 20 mins. That was skiing steadily in the slush - ie nothing daft in terms of speed - with minimal queues at the main points out of Val D'Isere. We waterskied into Les Brev (!!) - it would be faster with winter snow cover.
RattytheSnowRat
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| Do you have to pay for the car parking and if so how much |
Tignes has free parking at Les Brevieres (massive outdoor car park, next to the gondola) and Les Boisses (smaller outdoor car park, next to the gondola) - which leads me to question why Mr Piehole suggests
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| If you've got a car, you can get a head start on the 'to Val D and back' excursion by driving round to Le Lac and parking under the Office du Tourisme |
- because the suggested parking spot is a(n expensive) pay car park  .....
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Poster: A snowHead
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Depending on age/fitness/ability the journey from Les Brevs to the top of Toviere might be offputting, before you're even in Val d'Isere. We drove round to that exact spot every day because although staying in Les Brevs, we had a ski school booking in Le Lac, and it worked out nicely for us.
Fiver or a tenner a day I seem to remember in that car park. Price of a pint or two basically.
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