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Anybody have any tips for good off piste in Morzine/Portes du Soleil that doesn't require a guide?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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skingswede, Hi
yep, but I'm not telling.
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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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Welcome to  s skingswede.
I would be as elusive as zzz, but I don't have the knowledge to share.
An obvious place to start - up the Chaux Fleurie lift from Linderats - take the (obvious) red from the top and then drop down right. Contains drop offs of up to 4-5m - so ski down the red first and go up the lift over the top of the off-piste first.
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Around the tete de Linga going back down to pre la joux. As I have a problem with the very soft and deep stuff, I do not have a problem telling you where we would head.
Have fun skingswede, and welcome to 's
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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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As Roy Hockley, said there is lots of gentle off piste above Pre la Joux and Plaine Dranse. A nice run from Avoriaz is going off the back of the Col du Fornet, endind up in the valley below the Pointe de Nyon. It is also worth exploring the area to the left of the Swiss Wall and also around Chamossierre (a very beautiful spot).
nb Do not go off piste in bad viz as there are lots of cliffs in the PDS!
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the opposite side of Les Gets, off to the left as you go up the chair, and then down the other side to the restaurant are all good.
Pics here from pre-Xmas last year....
http://gregh.co.uk/albums/morzine06/
cheers,
greg
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| John Scott wrote: |
| A nice run from Avoriaz is going off the back of the Col du Fornet, endind up in the valley below the Pointe de Nyon. |
That's the Manche valley. I've not done it myself yet, but I've been told it's superb.
The local advice, though, is not to touch it without a guide as it's avalanche prone - which might explain why there are no lifts on that side.
The area around Chamossierre is also avalance prone - especially the slope to skier's right of Creux.
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kitenski - I presume that you mean the area to skier's right of Tulipe, off the Ranfolly express? I was wondering where those photos were taken!
BTW - if you're over in that area then the chip hut - on the Choucas run, just where it meets the bottom of Arbis, is highly recommended.
That's a good "safe" area skingswede. Although, saying that, the green that runs along the top from Ranfolly managed a small avalanche last year!
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now your getting all technical on me Phillip, so I'll have to go look on the piste map 
So they were actually taken skiers right off from the top of Mount Chery, going back into Les Gets
from this map http://www.lesgets.com/fileadmin/fichiers/PDF/PlanPistesGetswww.pdf the lift is the far right of the piste map, labelled as TS de la Pointe (but I see another one with the same name on a different part of the map!!)
Most were taken in that area, others in the valley over from Morzine, hidden valley or somesuch??
Regards,
Greg
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| kitenski wrote: |
| now your getting all technical on me Phillip, so I'll have to go look on the piste map |
Apologies for doing that kitenski!
| kitenski wrote: |
So they were actually taken skiers right off from the top of Mount Chery, going back into Les Gets
from this map http://www.lesgets.com/fileadmin/fichiers/PDF/PlanPistesGetswww.pdf the lift is the far right of the piste map, labelled as TS de la Pointe (but I see another one with the same name on a different part of the map!!) |
Ah, ok. To my shame I've not been up Mont Chery yet - even though it's "where the locals go".
Note to self - a&*e in gear, etc.
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kitenski, nice pics 
Only off piste i've ever done (intentionally) was from top of Mont Chery, along the ridge, and back to the chalet at Les Cornuts (basically half way up the hill directly opposite Perrieres carpark).
Didn't look like that when I did it though, but then I was more concerned about getting down in one piece before dark.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Am off to Morzine next week and have never had the pleasure of of piste skiing there. Can anyone recommend where to go or ideally a book similar to the one that covers Val D'Isaire with routes.
I have heard great things about the Hidden valley, anyone care to share how to get to it?
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