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I'm on holiday, I've got insurance that covers me for off piste within resort boundaries, but we want to do one route that isn't within resort boundaries. Has anyone got any experience of trying to buy one day of insurance? I'm in France, do any of the locally bought insurance things cover proper off piste?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Mountain rescue is free (paid by the tax payer) in France. What and where are you trying to insure.
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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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Join the Austrian Alpine Club - membership benefits, including global mountain rescue kick in more or less right away and you can download an electronic version of your membership card.
I'm also interested in how you've identified the route you want to do as being "outside resort boundaries". It's a term in a lot of "winter sports with off piste" insurance policies and is a term that means something in the US - but doesn't really mean anything at all in Europe, where you just have pistes and non-pistes (i.e. anything that isn't a piste).
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| Mjit wrote: |
I'm also interested in how you've identified the route you want to do as being "outside resort boundaries". It's a term in a lot of "winter sports with off piste" insurance policies and is a term that means something in the US - but doesn't really mean anything at all in Europe, where you just have pistes and non-pistes (i.e. anything that isn't a piste). |
In France inside/outside means anything that can be reached by gravity from the ski lifts or with a very short boot pack (such as the Sache in Tignes?) - search and rescue is the responsibility of the ski resort who will charge for the service. In this case the daily Carre Neige insurance will cover you. Carre Neige doesn't appear to cover you if you are off piste skiing outside the resort boundaries.
You have to be slightly careful, a route like the Gorges de Malpasset in Val d'Isere via the Col Pers can be reached by the ski lifts and is therefore chargeable even if it doesn't really appear to be within the resort boundaries but would be covered by Carre Neige.
Carre Neige also say they will cover for a day's ski touring as long as the insured is mainly skiing within resort boundaries during their stay.
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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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It's the route in Avoriaz from the top of Fornet down into vallee de la manche. So you can get to it from a lift, but it goes down the other side of the ridge into a valley where there are no ski runs or lifts
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Pretty sure vallee de la manche would be considered as within resort boundaries, we used to use it as the link to nyon 
Also I believe they restarted the ski bus service this year in which case would be hard to argue that it was outside resort boundaries
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| karin wrote: |
| It's the route in Avoriaz from the top of Fornet down into vallee de la manche. So you can get to it from a lift, but it goes down the other side of the ridge into a valley where there are no ski runs or lifts |
I agree with the above poster.
Carre Neige should be ok. If the piste patrol rescue you then it is carre neige's territory, if the mountain rescue come to your aid (in France) then it is free (french tax payer funded) although if the piste patrol is involved they may still send a bill which carre neige will pay.
As for your own insurance, I can't say how they would view things. You'd have to look at the small print or phone them.
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Le Carré Neige couvre-t-il la pratique du hors-piste?
Yes
Le Carré Neige couvre le hors-piste accessible depuis les remontées mécaniques avec un forfait valable sur le domaine skiable.
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Thanks folks. Looks like carre neige is the way to go.
It may not happen, but the youth (mid 20's) in our group want to do it, and I want to go with them. They all have insurance that covers them for all eventualities already.
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@freeridechef, @davidof, well, we did the run today, and in the end I just trusted to my travel insurance and not falling over. The most chilled home run ever - managed to ski all the way down the path by the river to the Nyon car park where my OH picked us up in the car!
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Excellent, well done, did you take any photos?
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