J2Ski group holiday to Tignes January 13th 2013

Snapzzz wrote:

Tony_H wrote:Leeds tends to suffer badly .........

with Northerners

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We are still looking for a room mate for the latest member to join our holiday group - male solo skier Tiger7.

If you are interested in joining us would you please either pm me or post up on here. The base cost for a shared room is £399 for the catered chalet, plus flights, transfers, ski pass, ski/board hire and lessons (if required). The total cost is around £750 excluding hire and lessons, but including a 6 day Espace Killy lift pass.

Here is one of the Espace Killy lifts - the Sache gondola which takes you out of Les Brevieres and connects with the rest of the ski area. The ESF ski school meets at the base of this gondola. (The photo is from the website www.tigneslesbrevieres.co.uk).



And here is the funicular that takes you up from Val Claret to the Grande Motte glacier (photo taken by my daughter in October 2010):



And here is the area piste map. You can move left, right, up or down and magnify any part you like:

http://www.tignes.co.uk/pistemap.htm

THat pic must early AM or something seeing as every set of skis has ties on them....
Looks claustrophobic in there.

Hi Snapzzz,
That photo was taken by my daughter at October half-term 2 years ago when we went for a short break ski-ing on the glacier.

Everyone tried to get up to the glacier first thing in the morning, as soon as it opened, and then stayed up there all day until it shut, because the pistes down from where you get out of the funicular weren't open as there wasn't enough snow. So we were just ski-ing actually on the glacier.

The funicular was totally amazing. The international slalom racing teams that were there for training on the glacier used it like a changing room, and it was quite incredible the amount of stuff they had in their rucksacks! One guy even had a folding chair - and he pulled it out of his bag something like Mary Poppins and proceeded to unfold it and sit on it. So, now I know exactly what those top skiers wear when they're out there, because most of it came off/went on in the funicular, whilst they changed it with their normal clothes.

I found the funicular much like the London underground - very squashy, but also very fast. They have automatic gates at the bottom that only let so many people through, in order to completely fill it.

Snapzzz wrote:THat pic must early AM or something seeing as every set of skis has ties on them....
Looks claustrophobic in there.

Gets a bit "friendly" in the funicular, hot, sweaty and humid as well.

I always try to get up near the top and into a corner. Quite a few people loose their footing!

But it's only a few minutes, much quicker than most cable cars. I love the view back down the tunnel which you can see right through the train.

I went for a walk in the tunnel in the summer when it was being constructed (guided tour for locals!!) which was fascinating in an odd way.

We enjoyed using the funicular. A bit weird though. Like something out of a Science fiction movie

bedrock barney wrote:We enjoyed using the funicular. A bit weird though. Like something out of a Science fiction movie

something inside me wants to say "f that"
Maybe its a kaprun thing

Snapzzz,
If you're too scared to use the funicular I should think you could by-pass it using the chair lifts instead (except of course when only the glacier is open).

Hi Bedrock Barney - the funicular was certainly pretty space age and weird!