{"id":1697,"date":"2010-09-04T12:48:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T11:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2010-09-04T13:03:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T12:03:40","slug":"whats-new-from-the-s3v-lift-company-for-winter-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/09\/04\/whats-new-from-the-s3v-lift-company-for-winter-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s new from the S3V Lift Company for Winter 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courchevel  Valley:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Extension of the snow making network with the installation of 20 snow cannons on the Plan Fontaine green run (La Tania). This will ensure that skiers of all levels can return to La Tania on skis all season long. This new investment brings the total number of snow cannons to 637 in the Courchevel Valley, covering 44% of the skiing area.<br \/>\n\u2022 Improvements to the Family Park modules to make them even more attractive and fun.<br \/>\n\u2022 Redevelopment of the Emile Allais slalom course ready for the Women\u2019s World Cup event that will take place on the 21st December 2010.<\/p>\n<p>M\u00e9ribel-Mottaret :<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Improvements to the Platti\u00e8res Snowpark to maximise its accessibility to all.<br \/>\n\u2022 Installation of 400 metres of snow fences (on the the Campagnol and Venturon pistes). This is an ecological way of accumulating snow on the pistes, thanks to the wind. Snow fences have been used successfully for many years in M\u00e9ribel-Mottaret.<br \/>\n\u2022 Improvements made to the middle section of the Lac de la Chambre piste (coming back from Val Thorens) making it more enjoyable to ski.<br \/>\n\u2022 Redevelopment of the Doron ZEN (area in the heart of the resort dedicated to beginners learning to ski) to make it less steep and therefore more fun for first timers.<br \/>\n\u2022 Modernisation of the C\u00f4te Brune detachable chairlift (Direct link to Val Thorens and access to the high altitude skiing in M\u00e9ribel-Mottaret) increasing by 15% the uplift capacity of this chairlift (capacity of 2 400 skiers \/ hour to cope with its success) and by refurbishing the lift buildings top and bottom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courchevel Valley: \u2022 Extension of the snow making network with the installation of 20 snow cannons on the Plan Fontaine green run (La Tania). This will ensure that skiers of all levels can return to La Tania on skis all season long. This new investment brings the total number of snow cannons to 637 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","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\/1697","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=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latania.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}