Tignes - Village Montana

Thanks. Sounds like a great run.
How difficult I'd the sache in reasonable conditions - steep, narrow, moguls etc.? How des it compare to the Face in terms of difficulty?

tspill wrote:Thanks. Sounds like a great run.
How difficult I'd the sache in reasonable conditions - steep, narrow, moguls etc.? How des it compare to the Face in terms of difficulty?

As a broad generalisation, La Face is way harder :shock: La Face has kudos, so gets skied to boiler plate, and folks fall and slide..............
If you must, pick a day when the snow is lying soft and giving lots of grip.

La Sache much prettier, easy in soft snow and slush. Moguls can form on the bottom section, so worth avoiding in hard icy conditions. Take the blue and cruise 8)

Coming up from the village, gondola then chair AFAIR. If you go back up to Aguille Percee, it's quite a long ski back to Val Claret.

:lol:

They always look easy from the bottom. Here is a pic I took of La Face a few years ago, click on the pic for the full size image. I am just surprised that you cannot see all the brown streaks the skiers were leaving behind :twisted:

As bandit says, it is a slope everyone wants to do, so it gets busy, shiny and harder as the day progresses. Just forget about it's reputation and concentrate on your technique. Do the bottom section (from the top of the Bellvarde Express lift, the one going up on the left of the picture) in one go, and as long as you get your rythem going on some nice turns, it will finish before you realise. Weight forward and trust your skis.

Great photo!
Doesn't look too bad. Is this te steepest part, r is it steeper further up?

It's a lot steeper than it looks.

This is probably the worse bit, the stuff above is narrower, but cuts round a path, and I don't recall it being an issue.

If in doubt, wait at the bottom till someone falls over, then watch how far it takes them to stop :twisted:

Far Queue wrote:Here is a pic I took of La Face a few years ago

:shock:

In half a dozen visits over the years I've never seen it looking even close to "fresh groomed" like that! Must be an absolute blast in that condition.

It's always been mogulled to hell on my trips (even first thing to avoid the crowds), at least the final section anyway.

Admin wrote:

Far Queue wrote:Here is a pic I took of La Face a few years ago

:shock:

In half a dozen visits over the years I've never seen it looking even close to "fresh groomed" like that! Must be an absolute blast in that condition.

:lol: :D I just give them a weeks notice before going out, and I have never seen it any different.

Seriously, about an hour after I took that pic, Bode Miller was screaming his way down it. The last two times I have been to Val, have coincided with world cup visits.

I stayed in the lavachet area of tignes last Feb and as a resort its not the best looking but the skiing was excellent (Except the lack of fresh snow). Looking on google maps i would think you have a walk of about 5-10 mins max. the main lift area is just above what look like tennis courts on google maps. You can go either north or south from that point.

The southern lift takes you in to the main ski area where snow parks etc can be found and you can also make your way towards val disere. I will warn that if you snowboard the run into val is awful and very very flat at the bottom, you will have to unstrap and walk.

I would reccomend making your way towards the lift called Leissieres Express which takes you over into the Du Montet piest area. The lift passes up and down over the mountain top and gives a very strange feeling rather like a rollercoaster.