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Just taken a look at the Courchevel webcams (32 days and counting)... Have they remodelled the top the Combe de Saulire? I don't remember the gentle slope entering in on the left (as you come down the hill). I know there has always been that track around the right hand side to avoid the top bowl entrance.
Maybe I'm going mad.
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In my memory there have always been two entries at the top of the Combe de Saulire: one from the col (accessible from the Vizelle bubble) and one from the top station of the Saulire gondola. I don't think I would call it 'gentle' though!
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I think that narrow cat track from Vizelle bubble was there last year but we did not use it.
Looking at this webcam now even the piste entrance from Saulie cable car (far right) seems somehow gentler and different to what it was last year. But maybe it is just my memory.
Last edited by You need to Login to know who's really who. on Wed 9-01-13 12:03; edited 2 times in total
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Hmm, I also remember a fairly steep drop into the run.
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Yep that's what I thought, You could always enter from the right hand side but it was usually unpisted, the bit in the middle was steep and got ski'd out quickly but I always enjoyed it. That right hand side now looks very gentle, guess it's opened up the run to a lot more folks now.
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ansta1, I haven't noticed any difference, but maybe that's just me being unobservant
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| ansta1, I haven't noticed any difference, but maybe that's just me being unobservant |
I didn;t think there were any changes to the entrance to that piste when I skied it last month. Two entries at the top, same steepness as before, plus the little cat track to avoid the steepest part of the slope.
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must be me, here is a grab of the webcam
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ansta1, I though the same as you, but now if you look at this www for the same web cam http://courchevel.livecam360.net/saulire
- you can check the archive from December 2011 and the entrances seem very similar.
I still think I have seen it much steeper on some photos when I did the research before our first trip last year, so maybe it was indeed steeper but good few years back.
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Looks very similar to me as I remember it last year, it's probably the angle of the photo; I'll report back next week as I'm in the 3V 
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I skied it a week or so back and far right entrance is defintiely steep for a red run and just about the same as the middle entrance -
though its "true steepness" started at the A of Saulire rather than the E, I think
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Wildsmith, done the saulire run many many times, and its still one of my favourite runs of all time, love tipping of the top and seeing how long it takes to get down to le praz.
must just be the angle that makes it look less steep.
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You know it makes sense.
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ansta1, I agree , my memory is of that bit being steepish, enough to stop and look first, that looks quite gentle.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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No change over the last 5 years AFAIK. The Vizelle side is maybe a little steeper but generally in better condition and less skied than the cable car side.
Cable car side often moguled and full of people falling. I'd opt for Vizelle or the chicken run.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Thanks folks, like I say I must be going mad. Been doing the Saulire almost every year and never realised it was so flat on the left side as you look down the mountain.
Never taken the chicken run, but once came flying over the top lost edges (as in fell over) on the first turn span around to head pointing down the slope, just tucked head in rolled legs over engaged edges and then the slope and momentum popped me back up on the ski's carried on skiing like nothing had happened.
Despite falling got Kudos in the bar afterwards for the recovery. 32 days and first afternoons skiing will be just finishing and the first evenings drinking will just be starting......
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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ansta1, OK I see what you mean now looking at the webcam grab, but no, it's the same as it always was
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I can safely say that last Saturday my 9 year old and me thought it was pretty steep at the start. She of course got down quicker than her old father and complained that I was slowing her down. Snow was good by the way
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Patch, thanks patch wouldn't want them ruining one of the best on piste tip off points...
chrisb, I know had my 8 year old in tears a few years back (bad daddy) but to be fair she was getting a bit overly cocky and needed taking down a peg or two in my view. Plus it was a touch icy (end of the day run). Still get grief from her and Mrs Ansta1.
But she has said she fancies a go at the Grand Couliour this year!!!!!
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I remember that run. Seemed to do it every afternoon in flat light. Soon improved my feel - oh that was a lump that I came to a halt on. Always seemed to be littered with people and equipment, but I managed not to fall!
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The entry to the combe is the stepness as before, as tested today; awesome snow!
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thank the lord, would haveruined one of my favourite runs. Clearly i just always ignored the bit on the left as you look down the mountain....
cheers Steve.
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