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Looking for info on notre dame de bellecombe,flumet,praz aka espace diamant

Looking for info on notre dame de bellecombe,flumet,praz aka espace diamant

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Started by Dublin1 in France - 1 Reply

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Dublin1 posted Jan-2007

Looking for info on notre dame de bellecombe,flumet aka espace diamant area ; accomdation, quietest runs, where to eat, where not to etc

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PrivateBryan
reply to 'Looking for info on notre dame de bellecombe,flumet,praz aka espace diamant'
posted Jan-2007

Diamant is pretty good, just got back from a few days in Les Saises, knee deep powder on last day so that helped although it has to be said that the snow was ok before the dump when much of the Alps had virtually none. Having said that Flumet and Notre Dame De B were looking Springlike on the way up. Only got as far as Notre Dame de B once but some interesting runs from Cret du Midi towards Praz. We missed our link back to Saises and had to taxi back from Notre D (£25), the link means a chairlift down from Mont Reguet to Notre D 1350 as there is no run - which is unusual. It took us too long to work this out from the piste map which is why we missed the Mont Ronde to Monte Vores chair and had to run back into Notre D. Les Saises has a seriously steep black and some challenging reds - no matter how good you are. Although the runs are not particularly long they all offer some interesting skiing, Crest Voland and Chenoz have the longest runs although we have only tested a couple of these. The link over to Diamant - or the way back - means a fair bit of pole-ing if your are heading Mont Vores - Ban Rouge, it's a high ridge and exposed so watch out for that one, especially if you have youngsters.
Although it's the other end of the system from Flumet/Praz the best value mountain restaurant is the Panoramique at Mt Bisane (where the webcam 1 is on the Saises website) which is really pretty good value. The one to avoid it is Coqs near La Legette which is ok if you have a spare arm or leg, cidre was ok the three quid price tag - cheaper than the coffee though! Go for it - you shouldn't be disappointed.

Topic last updated on 31-January-2007 at 20:56