Lagazuoi (Dolomites) - ski-run to Armentarola, most beautiful slope! (filmed on GoPro HD Hero)
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- From the villages of Corvara, Colfosco, La Villa, Badia and La Val you reach by ski or public bus the locality Armentarola in San Cassiano, from where taxis bring you to the Falzarego pass.
At the pass the Lagazuoi cable car goes up to the Lagazuoi mountain, where you can enjoy a 360° panorama view of the Dolomites mountains.
As a "warmer" you should try the red slope "Lagazuoi" that takes you back to Passo Falzarego. You are then ready for the "true descent of the Lagazuoi ski tourLagazuoi", as it is known - the Armentarola piste. This ski slope that stretches for 7.2 km and has an altitude difference of 1,130 m descends through the mountains, passing beside ice cascades, until the Sass Dlacia area from where, pulled by horses, you arrive at the ski lift Armentarola that takes you back up to the Alta Badia ski-carousel.
(Text-source: www.altabadia.org)
Filmed on my GoPro HD Hero, mounted on the helmet.
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le dolomiti sono impareggiabili , questa pista è superlativa
Che meraviglia
What a beautiful place to ski
I was there in Feb and still remember the distinct spots I see here. Thanks for posting
oh yes!! the gran risa is a truly challenging slope! no wonder they pick it for the world cup!
I work at the dolomites area every Winter as a ski instructor!...the best mountain in the world!!!
I remember having this whole run just to my self, my best friend and my dad 2 years ago. absolutely incredible and way windy!
Lucky you, you were there in a day of glorious weather.
Great run in a great scenery!
@MrFenderrosso Thanks for your comment :) Yes it's such an awesome nature, I love the landscapes in the Dolomites. One of the most beautiful places on earth! I have some more nice videos from this region, but didn't find the time to edit and upload them yet...
Regarding the ending: Yeah it's great that I can take a seat in a canvas chair whithout having to unstrap my "skies", one of many advantages of my short "Bigfoots" :)
great video, thanks GT.
I run this slope a lot of times also with less people as in you video.
Wonderful. Probably the best one in Dolomites.
Awesome! My legs are burning from watching. This run seems to go on forever. Gorgeous filming of a beautiful landscape! In the US, we have very few runs to rival the vertical drop of this one.
INSPIRED!! Totally want to go there now.
LOve it! Im going this easter to the Dolomites! Super exicited.
thank you for the video! i did this slope once in 2010 and was great!!!
i found it 2yrs ago we had done the run got back to the hotel and some of the others said where have you been so found the video and was watching it and i spotted the shadow of martin feather on left. its a great run should be going down there soon
Cool, I'm going there this winter!
Oh yes, it is! :) Not very difficult, not the fastest - but amazing beautiful and with wonderful feelings when experiencing it on your own.
naprawdę "la bajka" już się "zaraziłem" tą górką.
lovely stuff, good shooting too I liked the 360 at the end.
nope i wasn't there that day! such a grat slope btw surely my fav slope for the amazing landscape...but i think the "gran risa" is my best pick!love that slope
I went there last year at Easter and there was a lot of snow!
Troppo Figo forse la più bella pista panoramica delle Dolomiti
Spettacolo!
You definitely should travel there once, although the Dolomites are in the very North end of Italy and you live on Sicily in the South. The mountains are amazing beautiful, great for climbing in summer or autumn and skiing in winter :)
just an EPIC video, and an EPIC ending.. :)
Awesome run! Thx.
@anzex1 It's filmed on a "GoPro HD Hero", mounted on the helmet. They released the successor "GoPro HD Hero2" with some improvements a few weeks ago.
очень красивая трасса !
Nice ride ... Ciao.
Excellent, thanks for your help :)
Yes the iced waterfalls come just a few meters below where this video ends. I also recorded the rest, but still have to edit and upload it as second part in order to make the slope complete.
Mille grazie! I wish I could be there more often as well :)
Nice view... too bad you gotta push to go down! I guess its to slow you down to look at the awesome view!
You will be at least a bit faster with regular ski and normal weight ;-) I was skiing with "Big Foot Trick" (75cm short ski) and only have a weight of 57kg, so this slows me down on flat slopes way more than others. But most of the time the slope is not steep, so it's definitely more for enjoying the nature than for speed-lovers, yes :D
Amaaaazzzingg!!!!!
Yes the Lagazuoi to Armentarola slope definitely belongs to the ones with the most beautiful mountains world-wide :) It's not for challenging skiing, but for pure enjoyment of nature!
The Gran Risa is the opposite, you fully have to concentrate on skiing and have no time for watching landscapes :D But you have to take it in the morning, when it's well prepared. Depending on the snow-conditions, this one can get really difficult on evenings whith a combination of ice and piles^^
The slope start from 46,53N - 12,01E and 46,55N - 11,98E at the arrive at Capanna Alpina ( not where the video end) the remaining part of the slope is beatiful with an iced waterfall along the slope
Having a tour guide named Galaxy Traveler would be pretty awesome :) I just need one of those awesome GoPro helmets.
Wow lucky
@MegaSuncity1 Yeah, but what you saw in this video is just part 1 ;-) I made a break there - the slope still continues, passing beside ice cascades and ends with beeing pulled by horses to the next ski-lift. Hope I'll find the time to edit and upload that video-footage as well soon.
Niced Video! I was here in summer 2014: Dolomiten 3 - Lagazuoi
Sorry, I don't have a GPS-tracker. But you simply take the cable car that starts at "Falzarego" pass and ends just a few meters below the summit of the mountain "Lagazuoi". Then there are only 2 slopes: The one to the right takes you back to the Falzarego pass, the one to the left is the one I took, it leads to Armentarola.
I absolutely agree with you :) And I guess that's also one of the best jobs in the world ;)
@ColdFusionJapan It's 7.2 km long in total, but the final part passing beside ice cascades comes in a second video, I didn't upload yet.
I've seen a video from "Tohoku" - don't know if that's typical for Japan, but the landscape was very different indeed. I guess many of your mountains arose from volcanos, right? That would explain the big differences to the Dolomites in Italy.
I tried some 100cm Snowblades once, didn't like them - but they didn't have the bindings centered and looked like short "normal" skies. Now I have some 87cm "Summit Jade" Skiboards from America, also perfectly centered bindings, waisted shape and lifted tips on both sides - just like the "Big Foot Trick" I used to ski with more than 15 years already...
I prefere to keep it short, the feeling is more similar to Inline- or Ice-Skates this way. And I'm more than 80 km/h fast with them anyway ;-)
@silviobelletti Yes the weather was great! But I've been there another time when it was snowing and stormy as well ;-) It's really arduous skiing against the wind on that slope - like cross-country skiing!
S-T-U-P-E-N-D-O !!!
It was filmed on the 19th January of 2010, recording ended at 1:10 p.m. :D Have you been there on this day / that time? If yes, where can I see you in the video?
Hehe, I know this region and most of the slopes in the Dolomites much better than every city - in larger cities I always need a GPS-system, otherwise I'm lost! But in the mountains I don't even need a map - I just have too look around, recognize the mountains and know how to get everywhere, although these are several hundret kilometers of slopes :D
I'm looking forward to the GoPro remote control! Because so far the handling was not the best - but the image-quality is great :)
@NexsterCrn Hopefully they get some more snow before, I've been there in January and it was almost nothing. Hardly enough to prepare the slopes, but this will not last till easter in case the temperature is more than 0° a few days. In the worst case you have to go to Austria instead, they have TOO MUCH snow at the moment (in some regions 4 or 5 meters!), so this should be fine on easter ;)
at 5.00 you go past our group on the right hand side also the guy with the feather in his hat just before
Hehe, interesting that we've been there exactly the same time, and you found my video now :) It was a perfect day!
mini skis are wonderfull! did you tried the 120 cm, little bit faster as big foots, and better drive. thanks for this fun travel§
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I come along with you, ANYTIME! :D
nice video my I ask you which camera did you used?
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Thank for your answer . sorry i did'nt saw it before. You're right small skis are better and more fun. Do you ski sometime in France ? where ?
Have a good time
Sadly I've never been to France so far. I guess Mont Blanc is a "must see", but I'm sure there are other very nice regions as well :)
Hi, I would like to show me the exact GPS coordinates, where are you started and finished. I was looking for it, but I have not found. This video is very nice. :)
hey when was this filmed? couse I think u got me on footage LOL
hallo, i was for tree years in san cassiano but i dont remember this route. can You tell me exectly wher it starts and where it ends please. Dolomites are my lovely mountains >>>> very nice movie >>> peace for ALL
You have to take the bus / ski taxis from San Cassiano to Passo Falzarego. At the pass a cable car goes up to the Lagazuoi mountain. From the top you can already see the slope dividing into two directions (see the start of my video), the right one takes you back to the cable car, the left one is the one I continue in the video.
The end of the video is not the end of the slope, it continues passing beside ice cascades - I'm sorry that I didn't find the time to upload this part as well. It ends at a single house (restaurant / hotel I think?) from where you can either be taken back by bus / taxi or you continue on skies, but have to do "cross-country skiing" for 5-10 minutes until you reach a point where horses pull you on a long rope (dozens of people at once) the rest of this flat area, until you reach Armentarola. You can also do "cross-country skiing" the whole distance to Armentarola, but it's no downward slope anymore - it's a maybe 3 or 4 meters wide flat path. In Armentarola it's just one small T-bar lift bringing you back to the main-slope leading to San Cassiano valley station.
bel videoe posto meraviglioso! anche io ho fatto un video in Alta badia con rotor helmet e gopro, se puoi guardalo ;) !
Is it too much to ski on this trail from Cortina side to Alta Badia then back? Then to Sella Ronda? Where is a good accomodation? Thanks Galaxy.
If you're a good and fast skier, it's possible in theory. But it highly depends on how crowded it is and how long you have to wait at the lifts. Also you have to time the busses. From Cortina you first have to take a bus or car to Falzarego pass. There you have to wait for the cable railway / ropeway to Lagazuoi.
After having done the Sella Ronda, you still have to get back to Falzarego pass by bus or private taxis, either from Corvara or Armentarola.
If you want to ski many different regions, an accommodation in Corvara or Selva di Val will be a better starting-point than Cortina. From there you can always do the Sella Ronda of course (but this is the most crowded), but also do trips to Santa Croce (Alta Badia), Marmolada (Arabba), Seceda (Val Gardena) or Ciampac (Val Di Fassa) for example just using your skis and lifts. But in this case you'll need a bus or car to reach Cortina or Civetta.
Thank you very much, Galaxy.
I have problems getting hotels, as it is very crowded. Possible to enter Sella Ronda and other trails from the Marmolada ski pass side?
@GalaxyTraveler, besides the Sella Ronda (since it's so crowded) what others would you recommend?
For this season, it will be hard to still find a hotel for sure yes, most people already book their hotel 1 year ahead. As "ski pass" you always need the "Dolomiti Superski" ski pass in order to do the Sella Ronda, since Sella Ronda covers different ski areas. But "Dolomiti Superski" is one for all. The village Arabba also would be a good starting-point directly within the Sella Ronda. I don't know how many hotels there are directly near Marmolada, if any, probably in Malga Ciapela? From there you also could use the lifts to Passo Padon, and enter the Sella Ronda via Porta Vescovo / Passo Pordoi in one direction, or via Arabba / Corvara in the other direction.
Lagazuoi for sure is one thing you should have done 1 time, apart from that, if you're there anyway - don't miss the slopes of Cinque Torri. They're not many, but if you're not there during peak season, they're often totally empty and therefore fun to ski. The slopes in the ski areas of Cortina and Civetta also are less crowded than the ones in Sella Ronda and Marmolada - simply because they're harder to reach for most people that have their accommodation in one of the Villages of Sella Ronda. Sella Ronda can be seen as the main highway to reach most ski areas just using lifts and skis (no bus needed) within one day. As soon as you ski some slopes aside this highway, they're getting much more empty and often without any waiting at the lifts at all.
In Val Gardena for example you could leave Sella Ronda on "Piz Sella", the slope downwards to "Monte Pana" (above St. Christina), but you'll have to use the poles because it's a pretty flat way in the end. From Monte Pana there's just one chairlift upwards, but 3 slopes (2 red and 1 black) back to this lift that are totally empty in off-season, this is nothing spectacular in regards of the landscape, but is really fun to ski if there are maybe 5 persons on the whole slope.
Yikes. Such tiny short ski's.
Short ski, but huge fun! :D If you're familiar with inline- and ice-skating, these behave way more similar on snow than regular ski. Acceleration works exactly the same way and you're able to turn curves with a very small radius. Actually not really an advantage on this slope, but it's easy to go for even the steepest ones with them.
GalaxyTraveler I'd be far to scared to try them. Rather you then me.
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