J2Ski group holiday to Tignes January 13th 2013

http://www.tignes.net/en/skiing-in-tignes/webcams-290.html

Thanks Dave for posting up the link :D

I can see people on the chairlift going up to the glacier on the Grande Motte, but I can't see them ski-ing/boarding down - presumably because they look too small.

When I was out there in October 2009 for a short break during half-term, my daughter took some photos from the terrace of the restaurant Le Panoramic, which is at the top of the funicular. In fact, you can see this restaurant in the Grande Motte webcam. It has amazing views, being so high up.

In this photo the red run is on the left as you look at it, the area reserved for the ski clubs slalom training is in the centre, and the black piste is on the right. When we were there this was all the ski-ing that was available, apart from a pretty flat blue across the top, for beginners.

AllyG wrote:
And to get down from there you can either ski down the red Bleuets into Le Lac, or go back down to Les Brevieres via the blue Rhododendron which flows into the blue Melezes and then into the blue Myrtilles.

You can also ski down to Le Lac via blues, Rhododendron turning off right onto Petit Col.

Bleuets used to be a blue slope, it was reclassified as red in 2004 (looking through my collection of Espace Killy piste maps!).

Thanks Andyhull :D
I've added your corrections in to the previous page, as an edit.

I have a found a photo of Le Panoramic restaurant up by the Grande Motte glacier on here:

http://www.restaurants-ski.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1746&catid=210&Itemid=126&lang=en&2ee8c3da59053a4e5c51c1a143f92646=8654386d283e0e9ec8916a9e6933f3f6



It also has the menu, but no prices, and I can't be sure it is the menu for the coming season. However, I remember eating up there (from the self-service not the fancy restaurant), and being very impressed with the quality of the food. It was very expensive, but much appreciated at the time :D

And this is a photo my daughter took when we were there in October 2009. It's a very difficult thing to try and photograph. I asked her to include the cafe and the mountains. At least you do get an impression of how high up it is and the amazing view. It's at 3032 metres.

Nice floorboards!! :mrgreen:

bedrock barney wrote:Nice floorboards!! :mrgreen:

The whole restaurant looked very well built - it is a most impressive structure!

AllyG wrote:

bedrock barney wrote:Nice floorboards!! :mrgreen:

The whole restaurant looked very well built - it is a most impressive structure!

Changed a bit over the years.
New end to the building when the Funicular was built and the bubble station was removed. This changed some of the restarant as well.

Main change was c. 30 years ago when it was rebuilt completely.
This was after the stock of avalance dynamite underneath it exploded one night.
:roll:

The pisteurs hut is now c 50m away instead of underneath the restaurant.
:thumbup: