{"id":13178,"date":"2017-11-15T01:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T00:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13178"},"modified":"2017-11-15T08:01:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T07:01:17","slug":"courchevel-preview-val-thorens-lifts-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/11\/15\/courchevel-preview-val-thorens-lifts-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Courchevel Preview &#038; Val Thorens Lifts Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courchevel free preview day on Wed 15 Nov. Stunning pic from the Tourist Office &#8211; was that today?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13179\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/11\/15\/courchevel-preview-val-thorens-lifts-opening\/a05d7247-d49f-439e-83ae-c9dc4c7ff3f3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/A05D7247-D49F-439E-83AE-C9DC4C7FF3F3.jpeg?fit=2000%2C1125&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1125\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"A05D7247-D49F-439E-83AE-C9DC4C7FF3F3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/A05D7247-D49F-439E-83AE-C9DC4C7FF3F3.jpeg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/A05D7247-D49F-439E-83AE-C9DC4C7FF3F3.jpeg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/A05D7247-D49F-439E-83AE-C9DC4C7FF3F3.jpeg?resize=640%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-13179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/A05D7247-D49F-439E-83AE-C9DC4C7FF3F3.jpeg?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/A05D7247-D49F-439E-83AE-C9DC4C7FF3F3.jpeg?resize=100%2C56&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/A05D7247-D49F-439E-83AE-C9DC4C7FF3F3.jpeg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/A05D7247-D49F-439E-83AE-C9DC4C7FF3F3.jpeg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/A05D7247-D49F-439E-83AE-C9DC4C7FF3F3.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/A05D7247-D49F-439E-83AE-C9DC4C7FF3F3.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Verdons and Biollay lifts open (plus Tovets from 1550 for access). Free parking, snacks, lessons for kids, music etc.<\/p>\n<p>Officially pistes open are Biollay, Bellecote and Verdons.<\/p>\n<p>Still some nice drop offs the side of Biollay to be had and plenty of people have skinned up higher. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Val Thorens has a free preview day for Club Val members on Fri 17 Nov with some limited skiing and then opens the following lifts on Sat 18 Nov. <\/p>\n<p>(The official opening weekend with load of test kit and live music takes place on 25\/26 Nov). <\/p>\n<p>Val Thorens from 18 Nov:<br \/>\nFunitel de P\u00e9clet<br \/>\nT\u00e9l\u00e9si\u00e8ge des Cascades<br \/>\nT\u00e9l\u00e9si\u00e8ge Portette<br \/>\nT\u00e9l\u00e9cabine Moraine<br \/>\nFunitel Grand Fond<br \/>\nT\u00e9l\u00e9ski des Plateaux<br \/>\nT\u00e9l\u00e9si\u00e8ge Mouti\u00e8re<br \/>\nT\u00e9l\u00e9cabines Cairn\/Caron<br \/>\nT\u00e9l\u00e9si\u00e8ge Plein Sud<br \/>\nTapis Castor<br \/>\nPollux<br \/>\nCampagnol<br \/>\nMusaraigne<\/p>\n<p>&nnsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courchevel free preview day on Wed 15 Nov. Stunning pic from the Tourist Office &#8211; was that today? Verdons and Biollay lifts open (plus Tovets from 1550 for access). Free parking, snacks, lessons for kids, music etc. Officially pistes open are Biollay, Bellecote and Verdons. Still some nice drop offs the side of Biollay to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/A05D7247-D49F-439E-83AE-C9DC4C7FF3F3.jpeg?fit=2000%2C1125&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13182,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13178\/revisions\/13182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}