J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by dobby

Hi Bedrock. Snow depth seems to be consistent with the previous two years, so not looking too bad. I get the impression that if there aren't a large number of punters around then they don't open as many lifts. The Skistar website suggests that they don't open a lot of the higher Hogzon lifts until the start of February. I reckon you'll be OK so long as you can get the skis in your car and drive between the different areas. Duved looks good for our family and we'll probably be spending a lot of time there if the main mountain is blown out by the wind.

It's bad enough when you've got a couple of poles. Must be miserable having to do the shuffle of shame on a board.

WaggieWoo - I have just asked on Snowheads because it is bugging me that I cannot remember (despite having been to the resort twice)

Lots of different ways of getting up the mountain.

Jandri Express - gets you a long way there, but can be HUGE queues

White Eggs to Cretes and then cable car most of the way up.

Go up one or two of the greens at resort level and ski over to the Diable 6 person chair at the Venosc end of the village. Then ski Bellecombe green to the cable car (you may be able to get to the cable car by skiing down Cretes - I have forgotten).

If you are at LDA 1800, take Village chair to Cretes. Then get the cable car - you may have to catch Cretes chair and ski Bellecombes green to get to the cable car.

To get a definitive answer, put a post on Snowheads forum - Colin/Claude lives in LDA and is usually v helpful on Snowheads.

If any of you are boarders, I understand that Fee sector has lots of flat bits (someone else can confirm?)

Hi Dan. It is looking good. Bring your thermals though - looking a bit cold at the minute!

Easy greens - any of the green runs at resort level. Do not do the green run back to resort. It is hideous.

Easy blues - Les Cretes immediately above the resort and the two runs on the glacier.

Progressing blues - Vallee Blanche - nice side of the mountain. Often less busy than the main side. Signal blue - often missed-out because it doesn't go anywhere. Bellecombe blue is nice and seldom skied. Petite Aguille is a good piste (a little steeper IIRC but is right at one end of the resort)

I have heard that the blue back to resort isn't as bad as expected BUT I expect that a lot will depend on conditions and the time of day. If icy avoid. If "home time" avoid.

Interesting point above about re-labelling some of these "pistes" as something different. Are in Sweden seems to have something called "ski routes" which link various pistes/lifts - they are marked differently on the map from pistes. I wouldn't be surprised if the ski routes were actually narrow tracks of the sort mentioned above. I'll see what they are like in a few weeks' time.

Great comment, Bazza. It would also give pistes skiers the chance to try an unpisted run without going off piste properly.