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Tignes cable car derailment
No one headed for Tignes? The cable car derailed this morning, it'll be
a fair few days before it's operational again. 100 or so passengers winched to the ground. Spokesman reckoned it was due to a gust of wind "the biggest ever experienced on the glacier". Yeah, sure. The whole story of the day's events here... http://tinyurl.com/4chvq Pete http://www.snowracers.net |
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"PG" wrote in message ... No one headed for Tignes? The cable car derailed this morning, it'll be a fair few days before it's operational again. 100 or so passengers winched to the ground. Spokesman reckoned it was due to a gust of wind "the biggest ever experienced on the glacier". Yeah, sure. The whole story of the day's events here... Off there in Feb. so I hope it's sorted by then ! A very strong E wind is to set itself up in the coming days over the whole of the Alps. Joe |
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"Joe Hunt" wrote in message ... | | "PG" wrote in message | ... | No one headed for Tignes? The cable car derailed this morning, it'll be | a fair few days before it's operational again. 100 or so passengers | winched to the ground. Spokesman reckoned it was due to a gust of wind | "the biggest ever experienced on the glacier". Yeah, sure. The whole | story of the day's events here... | | Off there in Feb. so I hope it's sorted by then ! A very strong E wind is | to set itself up in the coming days over the whole of the Alps. | Now that is bad news - very. The snow is thin on the ground as it is. All we need is the Foehn to start blowing and remove the little that's left. Just checked the forecast - yes temperatures are heading upwards after the weekend. Bad news for the World Cup Criterium early December in Val d'Isère too - those dates are getting rather close for comfort. I was in Tignes yesterday, bitterly cold. I'll never complain again... some photos here.... http://bsm.alpesprovence.net/albumtignes111104.html Pete |
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PG wrote:
"Joe Hunt" wrote in message ... | | A very strong E wind is | to set itself up in the coming days over the whole of the Alps. | Now that is bad news - very. The snow is thin on the ground as it is. All we need is the Foehn to start blowing and remove the little that's left. An east wind is une Lombarde, it often means snow on the Italian side of the mountains. |
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"PG" wrote in message ... Now that is bad news - very. The snow is thin on the ground as it is. All we need is the Foehn to start blowing and remove the little that's left. Just checked the forecast - yes temperatures are heading upwards after the weekend. Bad news for the World Cup Criterium early December in Val d'Isère too - those dates are getting rather close for comfort. I was in Tignes yesterday, bitterly cold. I'll never complain again... some photos here.... http://bsm.alpesprovence.net/albumtignes111104.html Pete For those who can understand synoptic charts - http://129.13.102.67/pics/brack0a.gif Joe |
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In message , PG
writes No one headed for Tignes? The cable car derailed this morning, it'll be a fair few days before it's operational again. 100 or so passengers winched to the ground. Spokesman reckoned it was due to a gust of wind "the biggest ever experienced on the glacier". Yeah, sure. The whole story of the day's events here... http://tinyurl.com/4chvq Pete http://www.snowracers.net Sh!t. I'm going on 4 dec. Hope they've sorted it by then. Not because I like going up there, but it does keep people off the decent runs! -- Pete Devlin [{//////news03//////at\\\\\secondrow/////co\\\\\uk}] Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. Kaiser Wilhelm |
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:12:27 +0100, PG wrote:
No one headed for Tignes? The cable car derailed this morning, it'll be a fair few days before it's operational again. 100 or so passengers winched to the ground. Spokesman reckoned it was due to a gust of wind "the biggest ever experienced on the glacier". Yeah, sure. The whole story of the day's events here... Great. I'm going out there next Friday. Robert Swindells |
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"pete devlin" wrote in message news | In message , PG | writes | No one headed for Tignes? The cable car derailed this morning, it'll be | a fair few days before it's operational again. 100 or so passengers | winched to the ground. Spokesman reckoned it was due to a gust of wind | "the biggest ever experienced on the glacier". Yeah, sure. The whole | story of the day's events here... | | http://tinyurl.com/4chvq | | Pete | http://www.snowracers.net | | | Sh!t. I'm going on 4 dec. Hope they've sorted it by then. Not because I | like going up there, but it does keep people off the decent runs! Updates on the situation at http://tinyurl.com/4chvq but I spoke to the lift company today, and repairs will take "at least a week", and then they have to obtain official authorisation to resume operations. Double M still not really skiable (not open officially), no snow forecast until the coming weekend at the earliest, and warmer temperatures, 0°C at 3000 from Tuesday until at least Thursday. Still, there's time! Pete www.snowracers.net |
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Robert Swindells wrote:
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:12:27 +0100, PG wrote: No one headed for Tignes? The cable car derailed this morning, it'll be a fair few days before it's operational again. 100 or so passengers winched to the ground. Spokesman reckoned it was due to a gust of wind "the biggest ever experienced on the glacier". Yeah, sure. The whole story of the day's events here... Great. I'm going out there next Friday. Robert Swindells Practicing for january? -- Chris *:-) Downhill Good, Uphill BAD! www.suffolkvikings.org.uk |
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