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Chamonix questions
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Considering swapping BC for Chamonix next season. Will have up to 2 months to spend there. The priority of the trip will be off piste and touring (split board). Few questions:

1. How easy is it to find touring/off-piste partners? This is probably my biggest concern. Other than posting on here any other websites or resources for this people can recommend?

2. Is February really that busy with French school holidays? I can deal with extra crowds and a bit of queuing but wondered just how bad things get.

3. Any recommendations for guide books? Ideally something aimed at the "normal" skier and not just 50°+ slopes with multiple rappels Toofy Grin so far I've just been using chamtopo website and fatmap but neither provides too much depth.
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@boarder2020,
There’s a couple of facebook Chamonix groups that are quite active.
Personally i would try to avoid the holiday period but if your touring then the main impact would be parking and crowded pubs etc.
The Anselme Baud guide is back in print in English, its a bit out of date and does include the extreme stuff but is a good read. There’s a few more freeride focused books.

https://backcountrybooks.co/collections/guide-books-france
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Very easy to find touring and off piste partners, thats what most people are there for. https://www.facebook.com/groups/chamonixskitouring/ is good, although as jbob says there's a bunch of active chamonix facebook groups where people tout for partners.

February is very busy yes but if you're touring its fine. The bus can be a bit stressful
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Thanks for the tips. Obviously impossible to predict weather but I'm looking at feb-march as hoping that's the sweet spot between enough coverage (hopefully skiing down to Chamonix possible) and before things start to get a bit warm and slushy. I could start earlier or leave later if it would make much difference
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@boarder2020, skiing down to town is not an ambition worth worrying about.
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It hasn't been overly busy this last half term
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