Skiing: 3 Valleys Opening date

[Michael Chare]

Does anyone know where I can find out what dates the lifts which connect
Meribel/Mottaret to Courcheval and Val Thorens open?

This year they opened on 12th December, and I was told that this was 1 week
earlier than usual. Can anyone confirm if this is correct.

(We had a very good weeks skiing 13-18 December.)

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Michael Chare

[Brian Mc]

Michael Chare <MunderscoreNEWS@charedotorg.uk> wrote:
: This year they opened on 12th December, and I was told that this was 1 week
: earlier than usual. Can anyone confirm if this is correct.

I don't think so! I was there between 13th and 20th December and had always
expected the link lifts to be open (snow permitting!). They also were when
I last went to the 3-Valleys before Xmas 4 years ago on about these dates.

(Quite) a few other lifts (incuding Mt Vallon) were not open that week.

[Colin Irvine]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:15:29 +0100, Ace squeezed out the following:

>On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:18:22 -0000, "Michael Chare"
><MunderscoreNEWS@chareDOTorg.uk> wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know where I can find out what dates the lifts which connect
>>Meribel/Mottaret to Courcheval and Val Thorens open?
>>
>>This year they opened on 12th December, and I was told that this was 1 week
>>earlier than usual. Can anyone confirm if this is correct.
>
>I think they just open as soon as there's enough snow, although
>clearly not before teh main areas aer themselves open :-)

Quite. The last but one time I went to Val Thorens (just before
Christmas) the links out weren't yet open, although VT itself was
reasonably well covered..

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Colin Irvine