 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ricay,
If you look at a piste map you will find a green circle with a yellow skier inside dotted all over the place (bottom & tops of most 'outlying' lifts) - these are markers for the 3v escapade. If you ski all of them in a week then you can go to the lift pass office somwhere and get a certifiicate to put in your scrap book (yep it's for kids!). Alternatively try and do it all in a day - it's quite a mission
http://www.latania.co.uk/skiing/escapade.html for more useful info - I reckon it's pretty tough to do without decent 3v knowledge - if you're stopping to read maps you probably won't finish it, unless you ski like Bode
You can of course make up your own challenges such as 'all the peaks in a day', 'all the villages in a day' or some other combination...
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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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Cheers for the info guys. We are staying with someone who owns a chalet & consequently knows 3V very well...just not sure it the other 3 of us are up to doing it in a day !!! 
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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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my mate did it in under 6 hours but they hooned it the whole time and had zero breaks, comfort or otherwise 
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skimottaret, what year?
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Ah, Aaron et al's record on the original 14 point Escapade. Didn't think it could be the new 2012 18 point route - that's over 4 hours just sat on lifts
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Its not possible certainly not in January to do it all in one day with the early lift closures. a group of 4 of us spanked it round the 3v last march 2012 and we missed 2 points coming back in to Meribel because the lifts had shut. We were all ex seasonaires of the 3v so map reading wasn't our problem, its riding the cr*p lifts that kill you off. Lifts like the orelle lifts, plan de l'eau, the lifts at the top of the glacier in VT are all painfully slow. I think in March/April it might be possible like the chap in the link above managed skiing on your own and hoping the conditions are good. I remember skiing a few early morning runs on unpisted frozen crud that loosened a few fillings. Also staying in a resort accessible by bus would help for emergency returns home and it helps if the first lift you take is one of the lifts on the route such as Tovets/La Tania/St Martin 1/Golf etc to save making a trip into an outlying area just to ride a lift. We started in meribel where the first lifts we had to take were the old Saulire 1-new Saulire 2. Good luck though and keep the €250 on hand for a taxi home!!
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| thechronicyo wrote: |
| We started in meribel where the first lifts we had to take were the old Saulire 1-new Saulire 2. Good luck though and keep the €250 on hand for a taxi home!! |
Don't know why you'd start with Saulire. If you're staying in Meribel it would be better to take Roc de Fer and Olympic as your first lifts and follow the route from there. That leaves Dent de Burgin and Golf as your last lifts which put you in the right valley to avoid a taxi home if they've already closed. If things are really going badly go back to Meribel from Dou de Lanches out of La Tania.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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that is such a good point i think it was out of habit, and to get over to 1650 as quick as possible to tick them off first. that route done by Adrian Chaffey is genius though i really want to give it a go again now.
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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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Couple of threads in Trip Reports with suggested routes.
Possible to do do in spring, in good conditions and if you know what you are doing. I didn't quite make it last March doe to some slush and a couple of map pauses.
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I'll be there in a couple of weeks, night try a more realistic 17 lift challenge, and leave out the 4th Valley, as I don't think we'll be capable of getting around all 18, but I do like the idea of a 'challenge' day so want to try something.
Was there 3 years ago at a similar time of year, and the biggest day we did was 60 miles without really rushing so I reckon we could manage 17 lifts this year if we don't mess around.
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You know it makes sense.
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| thechronicyo wrote: |
| that route done by Adrian Chaffey is genius though |
I thought so 
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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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night try a more realistic 17 lift challenge, and leave out the 4th Valley, as I don't think we'll be capable of getting around all 18, but I do like the idea of a 'challenge' day so want to try something.
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Yay! I did 17 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Nice one kat any idea how many miles you covered, did you get a GPS track?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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As an alternative to the "escapade" try visiting all the piste/lift served villages in one day. Merribel, StMartin, lesMenuire, VT, Motteret, 1650, 1850,1550 laPaz, LaTania Meribel Village, Merribel was the order I did it. It doesn't include the 4th valley or some of the higher (slow lifts in VT so easier to get around than the escapade. Still a long day and includes a lot of nice pistes.
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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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any idea how many miles you covered, did you get a GPS track?
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Have a feeling it was about 70 or 80 km. I ski tracked it, but I got a new iphone before Christmas and did start from a new phone rather than restore form a back up so no longer have my data  Meant to contract ski tracks to ask if there is a way to get my tracks back.
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