Valais2's post reminded me of this video that Les Gets made a couple of years ago showing how a ski area is prepared, secured and maintained. And it's got subtitles.
ETA - Even now they're working on the lifts, well, not now, but today. They're rebuilding the top station of the Chavannes bubble, checking all the pylons, doing maintenance on the Chavannes and Ranfolly lifts, and that was just today.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
MeMyselfandI, very good to hear!
When we were there in September there was a huge amount of earth being moved up to beside the school, and all widened up there. The earth had come from great digging work going on in front of the Crychar - underground car park do you think?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
New piste I think.
Possibly in preparation for the as yet unconfirmed link across to Mt Chery which will eventually be backed up (apparently) by having a return from Mt Chery to Perrieres et voila, circuit!
MeMyselfandI, looked like a new, or much widened piste there. But the very large hole? we could only think that they are extending the Crychar hotel and including underground car parking.
Do you mean going across to Mt Chery from near the school, but returning to Perrieres area, or also to Perrieres?
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Not really possible to get to the Perrieres car park but there is a route (currently off piste) to just behind the Chinfrey hotel would involve crossing a road and then a short walk to get to Perrieres.
MeMyselfandI, had not seen the video before, and although you kind of know these jobs are being done, it was interesting to see what goes on. Over three years since I last skied Les Gets, but always fond of it as both my girls started there, the first trip now over ten years ago - where did the time go?
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I watched that last year, before then I had no idea how complex the process of keeping a ski resort running is. Made me appreciate just how hard all the Sagets staff work.
I'm trying to get my head around the link from the school to Mt Chery. Its not a huge distance between the two, but goes right across the heavily built up town centre. I am not an engineer, but surely there needs to be at least one pylon in the middle to hold the cable up, and if so where would it go?
After all it is free
After all it is free
MeMyselfandI, …excellent vid ….and all so we can go sliding….
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