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Getting the ridiculously early flight out on Wednesday morning so we can get a good half day in somewhere as a warm up for chamonix. Weather is looking a bit overcast but no significant snow. Have done a day in st gervais before, enjoyed it but the visibility was virtually non existent, so hard to judge it. How does les contamines compare? Looking for some reasonably steep slopes and a bit of easily accessible off piste dabbling. Other recommendations also welcome
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Isn't Megeve the resort to head for in poor visibility?
Either that or turn left off the Autoroute and head up to Les Carroz but it's not on the Chamonix lift pass.
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Megeve and St Gervais next to each other. Easy to get between them. Both very similar resorts in terms of low lying tree skiing.
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Can't be much more help than that. I haven't been to les contamines but from what I heard it is big powder fields. Not as big as st gervais.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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if you can get over on a flat flight day go to la gietaz, its awesome for trees!
contamine on the other hand I've leave well alone until the sun comes out!
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St G and Megeve are more like one biggish area and they are indeed right next to each other .. lots to choose from and it's all lift linked. I've only skied les Contamines once but David at Unlimited Sports in SG always points me there for better snow .. it's a big bowl / moonscape .. or that's how I describe it. +1 for checking out la gietaz too .. I tried to go over there last year but had a few confidence issues with my 7 yr old and had to bail .. we're going over there this year for sure.
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I'm heading to Les C on THursday afternoon/evening but its looking a bit foggy on Friday so I will probably ski in St Nicholas / Saint Gervais - more trees than Les C. In your situation I'd aim for St Gervais - just get the bubble up to Bettex and ski there and over to Megeve / Princess. Pistes in the trees and plenty of tree/meadow skiing options if you like that.
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Les Houches, the snow was superb today.
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I've skied Les Contamines and St Gervais/Megeve, Contamines is almost completely above the tree-line and St Gervais/Megeve is mostly pretty tame terrain, so I think Les Carroz might be a good option for you, trees lower down and big powderfields up higher in the Vernant valley with some gnarly stuff off Tete des Saix down to Samoens 1600, they do a 4hr Massif pass for €34.
http://winter.grand-massif.com/our-ski-passes
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Cheers all the advice...will probably decide based on how the clouds are looking on the motorway. Last time I skied st gervais it was mellow tree runs in about a foot of the fresh stuff, remember it being great fun... a nice problem to have! Will have a look at carroz too, hadnt thought of that area
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