On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:56:03 +0000 (UTC), Switters
wrote:

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:04:41 GMT, Ace allegedly
wrote:

Nice hotel (Jolanda Sport) at
base of lift with decent food and a very reasonably-priced wine list.

Looking at the maps, it seems that there is one lift out of Trinite into
the ski area. Is that right?

Well, there's one main chair from the village up to Punto Jolanda
(where the aforementioned hotel is located, as well as the Crystal one
others have recommended) that links well with other lifts. But there's
also a shuttle bus, or a ten minute (again, IIRC) walk, that takes you
to the next chair lift up on the same side (i.e. towards Alagna), or
even further up the valley to two more lifts at Stafal, one also on
the Alagna side and one going up and linking over towards Champoluc.

Does this become a bottle neck?

Not AFAIR. Most folk would only use it once a day, and the village is
so small that lift queues aren't really a feature.

Also, it also looks like to get to the rest of the area, involves a few
lifts and some descents to work your way across.

Well yes, to get to Alagna involves either a couple of cruisy runs and
chair lifts or just one that's a bit of a hack with some flats (fine
for skiers, but some boarders will struggle) to access the required
cable-car to the Salati pass.

Accessing Champoluc would normally be easiest via the shuttle bus
already mentioned, but can also be acheived from the Jolanda lift, via
one more chair lift and a _glorious_ long black/itineraire run down.

Just wondering if this was ever a problem.

No. I don't recall lift queues of more than a couple of minutes for
any of these connections, but of course this may vary at different
times.

One of the other options
available is to stay in Stafal, further up the valley, which appears to
have lifts running both sides

Indeed it does, as mentioned above.

and looks more central.

There's almost nothing there though. One bar at the base of the slope,
but not really anything in the way of a village. Not that G la T is
exactly buzzing, but there's at least a choice of shops, bars and
restaurants. I'd definitely choose to stay there again.