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Portes du Soleil is definitely on-brand this week with uninterrupted sunshine while being quite cold. On-piste is excellent in most parts but will need another top up of snow before the holidays. It was a busy on the weekend but it’s calmed down today.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Great day again. Reds better condition than blues as they ate cutting up by lunch time
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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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Great day again. Reds better condition than blues as they ate cutting up by lunch time
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Hi all, does anyone have suggestions for a taxi service from the bottom of prodain lift to morzine? Ideally one we can pre-book
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Hi. Does anyone have any tips on where I could store luggage (1 probably quite large suitcase) during the day in Morzine? I’ve booked an Airbnb but can’t check in until 4pm and will arrive around lunchtime. I’m guessing a very wide suitcase won’t fit into a ski locker 
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@Harwood95, last van standing
+33 7 85 95 65 08
To make contact What’s App them.
Also Snowtrees transfers might be able to help. +33 6 40 92 46 19
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Very warm today. Lower slopes slushy but still good up hight away from the crowds.
Snow is melting rapidly lower slopes, village green, trees green and green line creeping up mountains.
Some blues cut up and reds in better condition today again.
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| Tea_please wrote: |
| Hi. Does anyone have any tips on where I could store luggage (1 probably quite large suitcase) during the day in Morzine? I’ve booked an Airbnb but can’t check in until 4pm and will arrive around lunchtime. I’m guessing a very wide suitcase won’t fit into a ski locker |
Never used it but Rhodos Hotel, up the top end of town do it - https://www.rhodosmorzine.com/services#BIKEANDBAGSTORAGE
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| Banjo90 wrote: |
Looking for a little advice. We’re out to Morzine in Feb half term (before anyone says anything…. I know it’s gonna be busy!! Needs must as going with kids) we’ve got kids booked into ESF ski school but we drop them off at 8:30 for the childcare option before they actually start properly at 9. If we were to get to Pleney straight after that (assume like 8:35-8:40) where on the Morzine side would people recommend to try and find something less mental?? I’ll have to be back down at midday to collect kids from daycare club Piou Piou. Got the Morzine/LG pass for the week.
Also, are there single person lift queues on the Morzine side? |
I have never found the Belvedere lift queue so long that it is worth skiing down to fys lift. Since the upgrade the queue moves quickly and the Fys lift is SOOO slow. I would jump on the Belvedere then head over to nyon / Cham sectors always loads quieter than leg gets. Most of the heavy traffic half term is lessons on the pleney blues.
The pleney lift even at 9 is a 5 min queue / shuffle / shove then you are up in another 5 mins.
Only really bad queues I can remember in recent years are the 4-5 pm queu down from super Morzine and the tour lift in Avoriaz at any time after 9
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The tour lift has always been known as the Bonking lift in our family, not sure if anyone actually saw any action, but you do travel close to the apartments.
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@Pamski, 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| @247snowman wrote: |
@Harwood95, last van standing
+33 7 85 95 65 08
To make contact What’s App them.
Also Snowtrees transfers might be able to help. +33 6 40 92 46 19 |
Nice one, thank you!
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You know it makes sense.
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@shep, fond memories!
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| Pamski wrote: |
| The tour lift has always been known as the Bonking lift in our family, not sure if anyone actually saw any action, but you do travel close to the apartments. |
This will now become the most used lift in Avoriaz
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Poster: A snowHead
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| owenmharris wrote: |
| I have never found the Belvedere lift queue so long that it is worth skiing down to fys lift. Since the upgrade the queue moves quickly and the Fys lift is SOOO slow. I would jump on the Belvedere then head over to nyon / Cham sectors always loads quieter than leg gets. |
Belvedere only gets real queues in the morning rush at half term, so around 09:00.
No, I'd agree it isn't generally worth dropping to Fys to get to the far end of the plateau - but if your destination is the Nyon/Chamossiere areas it's noticably quicker to drop around/up Pre Favre. You'll be in the Nyon bowl before someone taking Belvedere's made it to the end of the chair.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Thanks all. Really appreciate all the options! Will 100% give the Nyon side a go first day. Get my legs back and then give a whirl to the rest!
Will message back when I’m out there. Reckon me and son-in-law could get a day pass from the OH. So may well get a day pass for full PDS and go exploring 
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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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I never saw any ques of note on Belvedere. Super Morzine was qued to the roundabout yesterday early. We just use Prodains cable car via bus with no probs.
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Just got back from four days in Chatel and skiied all over PDS and can say probably one of the best trips in terms of on-piste conditions and 100% sunny weather I have had for a long time. Crowds were busy on the weekend but much quieter on Monday and Tuesday. A snowfall before holidays will help - and it is getting colder.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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On the subject of the Tour lift, a friend of mine spotted a topless lady from his seat and ever since then, my family refer to it as the Booby lift. A coincidence ? - I don’t think so
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Just wrapped in 5 excellent days in Avoriaz. Snow conditions excellent, and we were able to tour the area including Morzine, Les Get, and a circuit taking in Chatel, Morgins, Champoussion and Les Crosets.
Stopped off in Chatel for the, now legendary, smash burgers at Buvette L’Ortaz. Excellent recommendation, thanks!
If you are in the area, do go and support this couple as they try to get their business off the ground.
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| Nicholas wrote: |
| On the subject of the Tour lift, a friend of mine spotted a topless lady from his seat and ever since then, my family refer to it as the Booby lift. A coincidence ? - I don’t think so |
My sons and their cousins were told off for trying to get on the tour lift with armfuls of snowballs to wang at anyone sunbathing on their balconies. They obviously needed to be more subtle.
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Is the SJD circuit open currently? If so that means the main piste down to the gondola base will be open.
Starting to eye whether to come at half term.
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| marskey wrote: |
| I never saw any ques of note on Belvedere. Super Morzine was qued to the roundabout yesterday early. We just use Prodains cable car via bus with no probs. |
The S-M has been...temperamental for a few years now and was having the odd, random stoppage last week - and it doesn't take much at peak times for the queue to just grow and grow. I think it's just reached the age where it needs some serious investment but with talk (and nothing more than that so far) of extending it to improve the link up to Avoriaz they are probably trying to key slapping more and more Duck tape and cable ties on it to keep it limping along.
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Recommend you keep well away from Linga for the next few days as they have closed off a large part of the slope form the TC top station to host the UCI Snow Bike World Championships being held on Saturday. There is a narrow and overcrowded hard-packed slope to the right for those wanting to get to Gabelou chair. Echo Alpin bottom station is accessible from the black run (really a red) that runs under the chair. The racecourse looks terrific prepared to "world cup" standards and the night parallel slalom event should be a good watch on Saturday from the base of Linga.
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@Ozboy @shep @Matt1959 would you be kind enough to answer a couple of questions I have on property ownership in the PdS (we're close to putting pen to paper on a new development in Montriond) if I DM you at some point today please? Thanks
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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@franga, yes no problem.
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@franga, No problem. Happy to help.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Chaletbeauroc wrote: |
I just checked and there's a message on both French and English versions if you are buying a PdS season pass:
ATTENTION : Les forfaits Portes du Soleil achetés sur le site de skipass-chatel.com doivent obligatoirement être badgés au départ de la France et ce pour toutes les journées de validité du forfait.
WARNING: Ski passes for Portes du Soleil purchased on the skipass-chatel.com website must be activated in France at the start of each valid day.
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Update on this - my concern was "what would happen if you turned up at a Swiss lift with a French pass that had not previously been used that day in France?". The answer is now forthcoming, from a chat last night with someone who did just that. You have to pay chf5 for that day and all subsequent days of the pass. So if you turn up at the Foilleuse lift with a 6-day pass issued in Chatel you'll need to pay an extra chf30, regardless of your starting plans for the next five days.
Still may be cheaper to buy the French pass and simply validate it by paying the extra for the remaining days on the fist occasion you start from the Swiss side though. On current rates a 6 day all-PdS pass costs chf367 in Switzerland, EU336==chf316 in France. Add in the 5 francs per day for the extra 6 days if you start from CH, you're still 31 Francs better off buying the French one.
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@Chaletbeauroc, but if it is a season pass, as you mention in your first line, then it could turn out rather expensive. Or have I misunderstood?
We have just got back to the UK after nearly three weeks in Les Gets and have had really lovely weather for at least the last ten days, maybe a bit iffy some days before that, when we had friends staying with us.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Lovely day in LG, but (1) it starts to be.busy and (2) the sun wasn't there. I want my money back.
Hopefully better tomorrow (but in St Gervais).
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Pamski wrote: |
@Chaletbeauroc, but if it is a season pass, as you mention in your first line, then it could turn out rather expensive. Or have I misunderstood?
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I don't think so, no. Someone in the pub last night said that you only need to validate the season pass once, then it's valid regardless of where you start each day.
The one who had got caught out had bought their six-day ticket at Vonnes on the same day, so it remains a possibility that if they'd used it first in France on the first day it may have valid for subsequent days starting in CH, but it was strongly implied that it would have still needed the chf5 per day for all remaining days.
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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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Good conditions around Roc d'enfer today, good coverage for the circuit and Graydon pistes holding up all day. Not busy.
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| klanfa wrote: |
| Good conditions around Roc d'enfer today, good coverage for the circuit and Graydon pistes holding up all day. Not busy. |
How's the final stretch where the circuit rejoins the main piste to the station? Plenty of base left?
Cheers
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The Chevrerie side definitely has a thinner base although I wouldn't say concerning. I've skied it last time (2 years ago) in much rockier conditions.
Seemed to be enough natural snow until where the cannons start, at which point the man made stuff definitely picks up.
There actually seemed to be some fresh man made on the Chevrerie side that was quite terrible this morning, very wet, heavy, and ungroomed.
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| klanfa wrote: |
The Chevrerie side definitely has a thinner base although I wouldn't say concerning. I've skied it last time (2 years ago) in much rockier conditions.
Seemed to be enough natural snow until where the cannons start, at which point the man made stuff definitely picks up.
There actually seemed to be some fresh man made on the Chevrerie side that was quite terrible this morning, very wet, heavy, and ungroomed. |
Thanks for this.
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@franga, Yes no problem  . But no DM yet I think?
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Perfect conditions in la chapelle today. It's even totally quiet.
Won't last long though. Snow beginning to look thin in places.
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PLJ sector is amazing today and less crowded that expected. They are probably al at Avoriaz. Snow cover is excellent hard packed as it’s been cold overnight. Les Casee-Noisette red run off Rochassons is open all the way to the reservoir on the PLJ home run which which makes a great top to bottom.
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Coming out on the 27th Feb for 5 days with the family staying in Les Gets
2 kids can ski but we also have a 6 month old so I’ve got my mother coming along to help with childcare,
Are there any swimming pools in hotels or spa areas where you can pay to use the facilities?
Also do you think it would be wise to book restaurants before we arrive?
Thanks
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