First EuroBBI Thursday March 21, 2019

[CascadeLuke]

^^the Vans, another string pull and plan by Michele - made for a long kickass day trip to St Moritz. The night ended with LVS and I serving drinks at the Mt-Lodge bar. A fun organic party and good vibe that night!

[vendul]

Best bartenders that ever worked us


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[TAFKALVS]

Best bartenders that ever worked us


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Hopefully I got the patrons drunk and the made the establishment some extra coin that night!

[2FUNKY]

That was awesome rolling in and seeing you two behind the bar. That night was great! Good vibe indeed!

[Buster Highmen]

Hopefully I got the patrons drunk and the made the establishment some extra coin that night!

mofro looks happy

[CascadeLuke]

Pizza porn from St Moritz. Michele’s brothers place. These Italians know what’s up
Someone please help with name of restaurant

[CascadeLuke]

Corvatch lines off Tram in St. Moritz / Engadin valley area
Edit: zoom first pic for ants skiing and scale

[alias_rice]

Boom! I was just stoked that the van that was missing was once found again......lol!

The tangled tale of the stolen van.

I’d personally like to do a day or 2 touring Julierpass. It looked like a ton of killer lines all around there. Plus it’s close to the hot Swiss barista.

[Mr. Mike]

Have been interested enough to keep looking at this thread. Thanks for pricking the interest Buster et al.

It seems that Sedrun is amazingly well-located. I mean CH has lots of resorts and I know only a few of them. But for my purposes as someone who is interested in skiing moderate on-piste and more aggressively off-pisted I looked at several resorts. The SBB train system and the Little Red train seem to have good connections from Sedrun to all the places one might want to hit.

Also from what I know sometimes Graubuenden is thin and Valais is fat and sometimes it's reversed because of storms. It looks like Sedrun being near Andermatt is near the Obergoms pass where the storms seem to diverge depending on weather direction.

Anyhow posting a general map as I was ruminating on possibilities for a future trip. Vendul's place looks prime for a central location

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yes, Sedrun is really well located for bouncing to other places. My wife and I did the daytrip to St. Mo with the group and then about 1 h 15 minutes on the train to Klosters, but before I found out that was going to be an option, I had looked into trains to other places from Sedrun, and it's really accessible to a lot of places. Laax-2 hours, St. Moritz-3.5, Arosa-3, Klosters-3 all with trains going approximately every hour and with a schedule that allows you to ski a full day, hop a train, and arrive at location 2 for a late dinner. And then from all those places, it's 3-4 hours to Luzern, where you can overnight and catch the early morning train to Zurich airport (just a little over an hour) for your departure flight.

[gimpy]

thanx for the inspiration+++

[Buke]

EuroBBI20 potential itinerary:

If Alagna has good snow:
Day 0 land; get to Rueras
Day 1 - 5 Ski Disentis-Andermatt
Day 5 evening drive to Alagna if Alagna has snow (4 hours)
Day 6, 7 Ski Alagna
Day 7 evening drive to La Grave (4 hours)
Day 8-13 Ski La Grave
Day 13 evening drive to Rueras (6 hours)
Day 14 Ski or Leave.

If Alagna has bad snow:
Day 0 land; get to Rueras
Day 1 - 6 Ski Disentis-Andermatt (Klosters/Bivio day trip options?)
Day 6 evening drive to La Grave (6 hours)
Day 7-13 Ski La Grave (Serre Chevalier/Milky Way/Queyras day trip options?)
Day 13 evening drive to Rueras (6 hours)
Day 14 Ski or Leave.

Buster, have you given any thought to Prali as an option on this itinerary? I don't know anything about it other than the occasional mention of "the valley which shall not be named" or some crap like that. It seems like it might fit the BBI vibe pretty well and could be a nice in-between stop when transiting from Sedrun to La Grave. Potentially ski 4-5 days in each of the 3 locations?

[Buster Highmen]

Buster, have you given any thought to Prali as an option on this itinerary? I don't know anything about it other than the occasional mention of "the valley which shall not be named" or some crap like that. It seems like it might fit the BBI vibe pretty well and could be a nice in-between stop when transiting from Sedrun to La Grave. Potentially ski 4-5 days in each of the 3 locations?

Sure, Prali would work. I've never been, but I've read it gets these huDge storms called a retour d'est. Similarly for the Queyras areas of Ceillac and Abries. My dentist has awesome subscriptions.

I would like to go back to Alagna someday; it's a beautiful, small, isolated village in the Monte Rosa complex with enormous itineraries possible and it's kind of on the way, but accessible only by auto. It's a lot like LG in terms of size, but Italian and Southfacing.
https://vcdn.bergfex.at/images/downs...274ed1e@2x.jpg

But the consensus for most seems to be to stay closer to Rueras and not bother with the 6 hour drive getting over to Serre Chevalier/LG and back. So let's see how stuff develops. I would very much like to go back to LG.

If there's no other interest in a road trip, it looks like there's trains that leave Andermatt at 12:40, 14:40 or 15:40 that get into Oulx, Italy at 19:30, 21:30 and 22:30, respectively. From there can get a ride from there via Taxi de La Meije which takes about an hour and a half. Or better yet, stay in Oulx that night and ski across the Milky Way to Montgenevre and get taxi from there.

[Island Bay]

Spent a season in Serre Che, and it’s a great place. Can get skunked, though, if storms come from NW or N. Vicinity to La Grave huge bonus. Skied Alagna back in 1990 when the old lifts were in place. Insane area with massive lines.

[Buster Highmen]

. Skied Alagna back in 1990 when the old lifts were in place. Insane area with massive lines.

How can anyone not love a place that has a "Dentists Couloir"?

[GBB]

Michele, enough thanks can’t be given for the hospitality you shared with all of us. I don’t think I ever saw you stop smiling.

Couple of shitty phone pics.



Waiting for the train to Andermatt on Tuesday morning. As Buster says, ski racks on trains is the pinnacle of a culture.



Big mountains.



Cabin porn.



Top of the northwest couloir at Corviglia. One of the many amazing options off the tram.



Fun.



One of the best bartenders I’ve ever had and all around good dude.



LWS, CascadeLuke, 2Funky, and the mrs. to scale.






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[Buster Highmen]

OK you holdouts with the fancy pants cameras:

Not that gif again!

I took 850 pictures and have sorted through about a third of them. Hope to get 75 keepers

Are they stuck in outer Slackistan?

[Rossymcg]

I'll just put this here:


10 miles from Briancon on the left^^^, a walled city designed by Napoleons Military architect, to Monetier les Bains on the right ^^^. All skiable with 1200 meters vertical drop average.
15 miles from Monetier Les Bains to La Grave.

A neat hotel in MLB:


Briancon:


Monetier Les Bain is a 5.5 hour drive from Rueras; leave at 15:30, arrive at 21:00

i must also add that serre chevalier has a huge ancient larch forest(larch grow further apart than the other native trees to the alps) with some simply divine tree skiing.

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[2FUNKY]

Michele, enough thanks can’t be given for the hospitality you shared with all of us. I don’t think I ever saw you stop smiling.

Couple of shitty phone pics.



Waiting for the train to Andermatt on Tuesday morning. As Buster says, ski racks on trains is the pinnacle of a culture.



Big mountains.



Cabin porn.



Top of the northwest couloir at Corviglia. One of the many amazing options off the tram.



Fun.



One of the best bartenders I’ve ever had and all around good dude.



LWS, CascadeLuke, 2Funky, and the mrs. to scale.






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That was a great way to end my trip that day. Thanks for cruising around with me. Crazy skiing perfect corn on one aspect then winter pow on the other.

[NWFlow]

Spent a season in Serre Che, and it’s a great place. Can get skunked, though, if storms come from NW or N. Vicinity to La Grave huge bonus. Skied Alagna back in 1990 when the old lifts were in place. Insane area with massive lines.

I have taken to planning solo ski trips from (far) northern Europe to the Alps. SC was my spot for next season, due to affordability (France is cheappppp) and proximity to La grave. Would be happy to make this trip when a bunch of others were there as well so as to not ski alone for 10 days. Also interested in other locations too, I suppose

[Rossymcg]

I have taken to planning solo ski trips from (far) northern Europe to the Alps. SC was my spot for next season, due to affordability (France is cheappppp) and proximity to La grave. Would be happy to make this trip when a bunch of others were there as well so as to not ski alone for 10 days. Also interested in other locations too, I suppose

correction France is anytging but cheap and the coffee is gash but the skiing is mega.
basing in the sesh valley opens up opportunities for you to ski plenty of other places.

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[LeoK]

sorry for the delay: I also got some shots from our Operalpstock outing - enjoy:

[vendul]

Chris Looks very sad in that picture!!!


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[LeoK]

Chris Looks very sad in that picture!!!

and understandably so!

[Buster Highmen]

ME looks happy too:

[Island Bay]

How can anyone not love a place that has a "Dentists Couloir"?

Just out of sight to the right are Malfatta and Punta Vittoria - epic runs in a wild environment. Check the link below for more.

https://fatmap.com/routeid/19562/Pun...0548107,normal