La Thuile

Well, it was most enjoyable despite the cold and freezing winds on a couple of days.

Hotel du Glacier is excellent; no queues at all, very quiet mountain, lift map is crap (the version produced by La Ros is much clearer), La Thuile has the slowest gondola ever built but the chairlifts are very efficient. Black run 25 in the Fourclaz area is the best run on the mountain, blacks 2, 3 and 37 are thrilling ways to end the day, not much tree skiing on a day of poor visibility that closed the international link, dead easy to get to Courmayeur and Pila.

Oh, we left Turin this morning with the snow bucketing down!

A few pictures:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=285155&id=610069872&l=b6613614ea

There are no chairs linking La Rosiere and La Thuile except on the way from La Thuile to La Rosiere. you take 2 chairs TO La Rosiere but on the way back you HAVE to either take a long 2-3 km button back to red 7 or two buttons to get back to the top gondola station....unless of course they have built new chairlifts in the last 3 weeks :lol:

you have been digging BE this posts 3 years old lol

Ha...must read the dates....came up on hotmail very late....like 3 years late! :roll:

Well my first try at a video for anyone thinking of going to La thuile
I have added music because I know Wickers does not like it!! :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxvwHLQG3MM&feature=youtu.be

Thanks very much for the video Bald-Eagleman. My favourite bit was the catapult fall at the end :)

Unfortunately Ally that was me!! but there you go....if you are unable to make fun at yourself what is the world coming to. -)

bald-eagleman wrote:Unfortunately Ally that was me!! but there you go....if you are unable to make fun at yourself what is the world coming to. -)

Maybe you should do a try-out for the movies? ;)

In spite of having several very keen cameramen on the group holiday to Folgarida no-one managed to film me actually at the moment of falling over, although someone did manage to catch me a few seconds after! :)