{"id":1378,"date":"2013-10-05T21:23:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T19:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2013-10-09T14:35:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T12:35:56","slug":"lenzerheide-and-arosa-link-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/transportation\/lenzerheide-and-arosa-link-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenzerheide and Arosa link up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been mooted for some years. What has been a famous off-piste tour has finally become something for everyone. From December what some claim is the largest linked ski resort in Graub\u00fcnden will open with a gondola running between Arosa and Lenzerheide. The only real downside is that you have to take the gondola in both directions &#8211; you cannot ski on piste between the two resorts, although there is an off-piste itinerary you can take. Maybe one of these days it will be marked and patrolled.<\/p>\n<p>The combined area will have 225 km of groomed pistes, a 50 km freeride area, a snow park and 42 lifts up to altitudes of 2865 metres.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Arosa_Lenzerheide_piste.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Arosa_Lenzerheide_piste-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"New Arosa Lenzerheide Ski Area\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Arosa_Lenzerheide_piste-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Arosa_Lenzerheide_piste.jpg 885w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can click on the map to get a better idea of the terrain, with a full-size piste map available from either the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/lenzerheide.php\" title=\"Swiss Winter Sports in Lenzerheide\" target=\"_blank\">Lenzerheide<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswintersports.co.uk\/arosa.php\" title=\"Swiss Winter Sports in Arosa\" target=\"_blank\">Arosa<\/a> pages at SwissWinterSports.co.uk.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always loved Lenzerheide, but by public transport you need to take a bus &#8211; not the end of the world, but it is always nice to let the train take the strain. Conversely, much though I like Arosa with its spectacular railway link, the ski area itself has always felt a little limited. For some time the gemeinde in Lenzerheide had opposed the link but they have recanted and now this new super-resort is a reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been mooted for some years. What has been a famous off-piste tour has finally become something for everyone. From December what some claim is the largest linked ski resort in Graub\u00fcnden will open with a gondola running between Arosa and Lenzerheide. The only real downside is that you have to take the gondola &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/transportation\/lenzerheide-and-arosa-link-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lenzerheide and Arosa link up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,78,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graubunden","category-news","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}