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Charity Day 2014 T-Shirt Questionnaire
Click here for the T-Shirt Questionnaire
2014 Charity Day takes place on Wednesday 9th April 2014 once again in Meribel Village – the must have Charity Day T-Shirt being one of the key fund raising items with the sponsors paying for the T-shirts and 100% of the price charged going to Charity.
This year, veteran Saisonnaires Hendo & Byron are organising the Charity Day T-Shirt and we’ve a little questionnaire (only 6 questions!) to try and give you what you want…
For further information on Charity Day and how to get involved: http://www.latania.co.uk/photos/CharityDayIndex.htm
A real Bluebird today – blue skies & fresh snow
A Vera for the old school… Courchevel webcams this morning. All the 3 Valleys webcams at: www.latania.co.uk/webcam
All the 3 Valleys Webcams on a snowy morning this morning…
8am on Friday 11 October 2013 with a covering of snow right down to below the resort levels.
Great to see the place white again…
All the 3 Valleys Webcams can be view live from www.latania.co.uk/webcam
La Tania – looking over the swimming pool
La Tania looking up over the kids/beginners area towards Col de la Loze
La Tania centre
Chalet des Pierres cam near Biollay above Courchevel
Courchevel 1850 from La Croisette
The Bouc Blanc terrace above La Tania
Courchevel Altiport
Roc des 3 Marches chairlift above Les Menuires
Meribel side of Saulire just above La Folie Douce
Meribel – La Chaudanne and Stade
Top of Saulire looking across at the top of Vizelle gondola
Val Thorens and the work on the new Pionniers chairlift
Here come the Snow, 20 minutes later than predicted
The Bouc Blanc terrace above La Tania 15:35 on Thu 10 Oct 2013.
Meteo France (finally) forecasting snow down to 900m tomorrow
Last Saturday we reported that the consolidation charts definitely forecasted a blast of Winter towards the end of this week – Meteo France are finally forecasting snow for La Tania and as low as 900m on Thursday night (La Tania resort level is around 1400m).
Now in the reliable timeframe the consolidation charts (each line is a different forecast model) show that sudden drop in temperature. Top lines are temperatures, bottom lines are precipitation. The red line is a 30 year average.
Prize for the first person to spot a blog saying that this is the base for the season and means it will be a snowy Winter! It’s still much too early…
Ex Saisonnaire Col, Graphic Designing for La Tania People – Drawn Upon
A bit of a “Where are they now”?…. Ex La Tania Saisonnaire Colin Dyte (aka Col) has his own Graphic Design Company – Drawn Upon and has done some great work for other La Tania people past & present.
This includes Gary Newson (Big Gaz / Gazza), Dean Torti (Deano) and Ben Adby (Adby) – see examples of Col’s work below. The Drawn Upon web site is at www.drawnupon.com.au and they’re on facebook at www.facebook.com/Drawnupon
Ex La Tania residents The Feeling new single out today – played to us in March!
Ex La Tania residents The Feeling performing their new single “Rescue” at The Meribel Auditorium on 13 March 2013.
The single and new album “Boy Cried Wolf” are released today, 7 October 2013.
Q Magazine have given it a fantastic review “The Album of their career”
The Feeling came home to Meribel to play a couple of gigs back in March – including playing the new single to us first!
And now the new bits on the 3 Valleys Piste Map for 2014…
Following our Courchevel piste map spot the difference from 2013 to 2014 (a few new pistes, some piste re-grading, the new La Tania chair and some old ones removed) – here’s the rest of the 3 Valleys changes for 2014.
Courchevel differences for 2014 here
Coulouir Tournier above Meribel now marked on the map after opening last season. you can see the Creux piste is now blue too.
The new Pionniers chair where the 3 Valleys 1 Chair was (with pedestrian access cabins for Folie Douce trips – now there are 2 fast chairs out of the Valley.
New Freeride area above St Martin.
A second Freeride area down from the La Masse summit.
Indiens 2? (like in 1650?). Kids piste in Meribel with “Inuit Theme”.
The mad new zip wire in the 4th Valley above Orelle plus the new Peyron chair.
