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Chamonix - "adjustments" to lift investment

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See https://www.chamonix.net/english/news/adjustments-in-the-investments-and-new-calendar-works-ski-area

Some good news, some bad, and some very interesting...

"Here is the calendar until 2020:
Works for the renovation of the artificial snow network on La Flégère and Le Savoy will continue this year 2017.
Christmas 2018: will go into service the chairlift in Lognan, called to replace the chairlifts of Marmottons and Tabé, initially planned in 2019. And the beginners area, initially planned in 2024.
Christmas 2019: will go into service the gondola that will replace the Flégère cable car.
2020: The new Charamillon gondola is postponed until the winter of 2020."

"gondola that will replace the Flegere cable car"? News to me - anyone else heard much about this? Could revolutionise skiing at Flegere! However, another 3 years of the Le Tour Gondola breaking down every few days isn't great.
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@snowdave, I had heard two things of interest, 1. the Flegere replacement - anything an improvement and 2. a major rework of the area below Lognan to provide a significant snow cannoned beginners and intermediate area. (as there's no capacity to do this elsewhere ).

Both very good news.

Charamillon? delayed due to consultation with the indigenes?
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Thanks UANN. Yes, the locals were revolting over the plan to locate the new charamillon station at what is currently the bottom of the car park. Apparently it will damage their views and also deprive the restaurants of business.

I heard that the beginner area plan at Lognan was to have a chair between tabe and marmotton (removing both of those) near the helicopter landing pad, with a large area served there and potentially also a race piste. However, I'm not sure what the final plans are.

The flegere gondola plan was what really caught my eye, because for years locals have told me it's too windy for a gondola there. Would be good, particularly for the downloading!
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@snowdave, CMB have indeed (what I heard anyway) been struggling to find an alternative because of wind. I seem to recall somone suggesting that it was going to follow a slightly different route to mitigate that. But who knows?

Certainly will be a major improvement.

Re Lognan, I think the main attraction is that the other areas are in the Aig Rouges reserve so putting in big reservoirs for water for snow is never going to get permission whereas GMs they have a lot more latitude over that sort of thing (and is anyway, north facing).

How they manage access and parking however... ??
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