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Currently raining in morzine nice and hard.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Currently throwing it down with snow in Champery, about 5 cm in 20 mins on the path to my house!!! 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Easily 25-30cm in places up in avoriaz! Been snowing all day in morzine, but still quite wet snow.
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Jamesc, SNOW IS SNOW! WOOOHOOO!!!
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First trip to Avoriaz 12/3. Looking like it could be a 2nd "good" weeks skiing this year after Belle Plagne 29/1. 
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Off there on the 17/3, this is startimg to look good!
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Sunday - best day of the season.
FACT!
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Heading out next friday- likely to need chains?
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| Nadenoodlee wrote: |
| Heading out next friday- likely to need chains? |
no! but alot can change in 5 days...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Is morgin chatel link opening this week?
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Any idea how much new snow in morgins?
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Wife and friends are out this weekend, staying in Morzine, apart from heading high over to Avoriaz, where else has good snow, are many links open at all?
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You know it makes sense.
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Les Gets was fine last week(Except very busy!) and with the recent new snow should be even better.
There were a few runs closed in Morzine, but I think the will shortly reopen if the snow keeps on falling.
To put it in perspective, I got back yesterday and have booked to go back out on the 12th of March....if I wasn't confident of the conditions I wouldn't have.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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geetee, err no, after first hand experience of where the snow is good at the moment!!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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kitenski, sorry, thought you wanted to know which links were open too. I've been following Morzine Weather from here to keep up with what the snow is like.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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geetee, thanks, link saved
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Have a weekend planned in a couple of weeks then a week at the start of April. The more snow the better!
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Just back from seven days in PdS at Champoussin.
Snow on piste was generally good, a couple of the links were a bit brown, especially by the end of the week, but it snowed Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, I reckon at least 10 cm each time, so the slopes were well topped up. Off the slopes however it soon melted as I think the ground has warmed up and it will need a long cold spell to put a stop to that.
I don't ski off piste (old bones) but coming up Mossettes from France late on Friday after a long sunny day there were people under the lift skiing untracked "powder" and plenty of it ... not the deepest, but lots of virgin white.
Pisteurs doing a fantastic job with what snow there is and all in all, a far better week than I expected.
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We may take a private lesson mid-week to get the courage up for Reds - any suggestions?
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BASS? Haven't been there for some years, but we had some v good lessons with them in the past.
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zvordauk, welcome to snowHeads. These people are also good for instruction in Les Gets: http://www.skischool.co.uk/. Many snowHeads speak highly of both Tims.
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zvordauk, good for you. We are returning to Les Gets this weekend after four rather grey, miserable weeks back n the UK.
I would have thought that if you only want to ski blues then its probably not worth getting full PDS passes - someone will be along soon to disagree with me no doubt - as you can always upgrade for a day if you do decide to venture further afield.
I would certainly recommend a lesson or two, and agree with Hurtle's suggestion above - we both had lessons with Tim Scott of Les Gets Ski Sports back in January which were really enjoyable.
As for non-skiers passes, I found out some info for someone staying at our place a few weeks ago - not easy to find on the web but the lift offices have it on a leaflet and it is also possible to buy a six day Les Gets/Morzine lift past for pedestrians and I think that was 52 euros. So that would work for the gondolas up to the Chavannes - where you could then all meet up for lunch, or also the gondola on Mt Chery where they could enjoy the wonderful views. Also with that pass if they went to Morzine they could uses the two gondolas there. Otherwise it is possible to buy tickets by the gondola for Les Gets which were something like 25.80 euros for 12 one way tickets and 51.50 euros for 24 tickets. Plus 3 euros for the pass itself.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| Hurtle wrote: |
| zvordauk, welcome to snowHeads. These people are also good for instruction in Les Gets: http://www.skischool.co.uk/. Many snowHeads speak highly of both Tims. |
We were in Les Gets last week and had a couple of private lessons from these guys..... http://www.alpinelearningcurves.co.uk/
Joe and Nathan were excellent and certainly improved our skiing.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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zvordauk, Another vote for Les Gets Snowsports (skischool.co.uk). I've had lessons with both Tim Jackson and Andy Cavet and was impressed with both.
I'm out to Les Gets this Saturday for a week. Anyone have any new restaurant tips for this season (on the hill or in town)?
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zvordauk, get the Chavannes Express chair, then take Violettes into the bowl, then Rosta chair up the other side (mmm, nice views, look that's Mont Blanc) then down the Reine des Pres checking out the pizza restaurant on the right as a good lunch spot, all the way back down to the Rosta again or the Grains d'Or to the right, and then Vorosses either all the way down to Perrieres if you're feeling happy enough to handle a little bit of wide open red before the lift, or the Turche button lift if not, or if you don't fancy that either then take the Renardines back to the bowl, then up Nauchets chair on the other side, turning right at the top past L'Hottys and keep left, going all the way down Choucas (stop for vin chaud at Blanchots). At the botom, either take the Charniaz back to the top of the bowl and follow the blue back all the way to the village or take the Troncs chairlift in the Morzine direction, follow the Raverettes piste and then Lievre crossing over the river gorge on the bridge (ooh! long way down ) and the Fys chairlift (careful on the dismount) and follow the Crocus down to where it joins the Bruyere, through the tunnel and all the way back down to the village that way.
All blues, plenty of km under your piste and some nice views. One you've got a piste map the route will be obvious.
Or just get some lessons and let your instructor do the navigation.
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You know it makes sense.
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All the geetee family have lessons booked with Les Gets Snowsports (Tim Scott LGS ) when we're out in a couple of weeks time. We haven't used LGS yet and all our lessons so far have been with BASS who are very good. I'm really looking forward to going now that the snow has arrived.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I have to say, that if all days were like Sunday then I don't mind the odd dry spell.
On the Grand Paradis for first lift on Sunday morning and drove home a happy camper. Champery was not busy so spent a happy morning bashing round Les Crosets on the South side occasionally daring to head up towards the border where the weather was much worse but the snow was good. One more storm will do it I reckon for base friendly conditions everywhere.
Pistes great, choppy with the odd bump but I had lots of energy. Off piste great. Down towards Champoussin it got a bit sketchy to stray far from the pistes.
Anyone up for showing an alpine skier who's new to touring bindings some good short tours in the area of CLCF give me a shout. Or even inbounds.
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Poster: A snowHead
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WoW! Thanks to everybody for your suggestions!
@andyph - can we travel all of your route with the standard pass or will we need the PdS pass?
Looks like there's enough blues there to keep us happy for the week 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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zvordauk, you can do andyph's route on a standard Les Gets/Morzine pass. Hope you have a great time.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Zvordauk, we had our first family ski holiday earlier this year in Les Gets, with kids aged 10, 8 and 6. We mostly stayed on blues and are familar with andyph's route. We also enjoyed Bruyeres down to the Folliet (?) lift, then left down to Morzine on Piste N, back up on the Pleney gondola, short right down to Belvedere then down the Granges and up the Charniaz chair back to the start. Again, all on a Morzine / Les Gets pass. You'll have a great time, there really is a huge area to explore. By the end of the week the kids were venturing down some of the reds into the bowl. Roll on next year, booked already!
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| andyph wrote: |
zvordauk, get the Chavannes Express chair, then take Violettes into the bowl, then Rosta chair up the other side (mmm, nice views, look that's Mont Blanc) then down the Reine des Pres checking out the pizza restaurant on the right as a good lunch spot, all the way back down to the Rosta again or the Grains d'Or to the right, and then Vorosses either all the way down to Perrieres if you're feeling happy enough to handle a little bit of wide open red before the lift, or the Turche button lift if not, or if you don't fancy that either then take the Renardines back to the bowl, then up Nauchets chair on the other side, turning right at the top past L'Hottys and keep left, going all the way down Choucas (stop for vin chaud at Blanchots). At the botom, either take the Charniaz back to the top of the bowl and follow the blue back all the way to the village or take the Troncs chairlift in the Morzine direction, follow the Raverettes piste and then Lievre crossing over the river gorge on the bridge (ooh! long way down ) and the Fys chairlift (careful on the dismount) and follow the Crocus down to where it joins the Bruyere, through the tunnel and all the way back down to the village that way.
All blues, plenty of km under your piste and some nice views. One you've got a piste map the route will be obvious.
Or just get some lessons and let your instructor do the navigation. |
This post brought back happy memories of almost that exact route a couple of years ago. Thanks Andy
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Actually my favourite warm-up run is to ski down Rosta on the Melezes piste, then the Tulipe down Ranfoilly, then back up Ranfoilly Express but down the Tetras (sometimes taking a shortcut off the side of the Tulipe just below the lift) and up Chamossiere (much easier with the new chair) and down Arbis or Creux depending on the snow and then up to the top of Nyon and all the way down to the Nyon cable car (a vertical km).
4 hills in the morning, and then go and muck about on Chery in the afternoon. Near perfect 1st day
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Anyone out there? How's it looking?
We arrive next weekend and can't see much snow on the horizon.
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Was @ Les Gets 1/2 term and my kids had lessons with LGS - age 10 and 9. Andy Cavert was their instructor. They loved him and really came on over the 5 days (3rd week skiing) they had with him. Small group of 6 - they basically went across the whole Morzine / Les Gets area, did some off-piste and even a bit of 'Yeti' (black run) on the last day.
My favourite runs were the red down from Chamosierre and Meszeles to the Perriers chair lift. I was also pretty impressed with how the lift system coped with the 1/2 term crowds, as long as you avoided the lifts out of the village during the day, seemingly long queues moved quickly because of quite a few high speed chairs.
The Les Gets / Morzine area pass was more than adequate for the skiing we wanted to do over the week. Would have been nice to do Mt Chery but it was basically 1/2 brown - looked VERY quiet though in the areas it was open.
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That's right, nothing to see there people, move along... 
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