Passo Tonale

Hi every-one, I've just joined you all. Have just returned from a week at Passo.Like a quiet resort and this was just the job. Ski-ing was good when we could do some ! Weather was misty for four days with great dumps along-side it(not complaining there). Would like to go again but wonder if these are the usual conditions or is it a "funny year"

Hi Trotski,
We were just the other side of the mountain from you, in Folgarida/Madonna di Campiglio for the J2Ski 2014 group holiday, and we experienced fog and low cloud and heavy snow, as well (although it didn't stop us ski-ing!).

I'm sure those incredible snow depths weren't normal, and I expect there was more fog around than usual. We really liked our resort - what did you think of Passo Tonale? We could have gone there on our lift pass but it would have meant about an hour in a bus, each way, so we didn't bother.

Hi AllyG
Liked the resort a lot, might not suit younger people as a bit quiet, which we like.
The pistes were well cared for and on the days we could see (!) were great. Will go back next year, hope to rent an apartment this time but having trouble persuading Thomson to provide transport up to now. The group ski sounds good, is it every year ?
Thanks for your quick reply, this is a good forum.

Hi Trotski,
There's a public bus to Passo Tonale between there and Verona and Milan Bergamo airports:

http://www.flyskishuttle.com/start.php?page=home&lang=EN

2 of the people in our group got to Folgarida using this bus from Bergamo, and it's very cheap. I think it was 35 euros return between Bergamo and Folgarida. Passo Tonale is just the other side of one of the Madonna di Campiglio mountains.

This was our second annual J2Ski group trip. We have already started planning our next one. Admin doesn't organize it - we do it ourselves. At the moment areas under consideration are La Thuile, the Sella Ronda, and Leogang for Saalbach. But we have a lot of research to do yet before we make up our minds about where to go next year!

The way we do it is we decide where to go and sort out some suitable accommodation, and then each of us chooses how we get there. So we had 3 cars, 11 people on the same EasyJet flight from Gatwick to Verona followed by a mini-bus taxi to Folgarida (which only cost 64 euros return), one person (me) on the train from Verona after a BA flight, and one person on the train from Milan Malpensa airport after a flight from the U.S., and 2 on the public shuttle bus from Milan Bergamo after a RyanAir flight from Stansted.

There's an account of our trip, with photos, here:
http://www.j2ski.com/ski-chat-forum/posts/list/592/12565.page

Nice spot and pix. That bus sounds the business, I take it the service gears itself up to catch Flight No's, not having ever done this I would be slightly not at ease with the prospect that turning up in time for the flight was in the hands of public transport ?
Would be great to have details etc of how the system works from some-one who'd used this.

The buses go according to the time-table, and you have to make sure before you buy your flights that their times will fit in with the bus time-table, and the bus only goes on saturday (2 bus times this season) and Sunday (only one bus this season to Verona but 2 to Bergamo).

It's a bus service run by the Tourist board, to attract visitors to the area. The two guys in our group who used the bus had no problems with it - in fact they said it got to Folgarida much quicker than on the time-table as there weren't many people on the bus so I suppose they missed out a few of the stops.

A private taxi costs the earth if there are only 1 or 2 of you.