 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi - am coming out to Les Gets on the 18th Jan for 4 days, can one of you kind people confirm the easiest / quickest way to get up to Avoriaz if conditions are poor by then? We won't have a car so will be relying on lifts / bus service. I came out two years ago and anything below about 1600m was completely green - this year looks a lot better but we only have a short time so want to get the best conditions we can. We're a couple of reasonably competent snowboarders so are happy to take an "interesting" route if necessary. 
Nick
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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hatpegs, 2 years ago was exceptional. I was there when Les Gets was green, but it snowed during the week, although we drove to Ardent or Super Morzine each day.
There's a bus from Mont Chery lift to Morzine, then you need to get across to SuperMorzine, or the bus up to Prodains.
By lift is more fun.... Up Chavannes, down the Red then Blue (Belle Mouille?) to bottom of Fys, up Fys, down piste to Morzine.
On the way back... Up Pleney, down to bottom of Belvedere, up Belvedere, down the piste signposted Les Gets.
(I think - someone more local can hopefully confirm - I've not skiied that for a few years).
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I would have thought that, if you had a car it would be easiest to drive to Les Prodains or Ardent (we prefer Ardent).
If not, it's go by bus or ski to Morzine then cross the town to the Super Morzine lift, from the top you can ski to Avoriaz but it can be slushy in the Super Morzine area when conditions are poor.
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No car this year so on-piste or bus the only options. Sounds good anyhow - I know the area well on a mountain bike in the summer (obviously less reliant on lifts and buses then!) but have never snowboarded there, apart from 2006 which really didn't count. Couldn't believe my eyes when we arrived - it was like June.. Fingers crossed conditions hold up for a couple of weeks.
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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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There's a lot of snow on the ground, I can't see how it would all melt in two weeks;
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hatpegs, I don't think January is going to be a problem for snow there. I was in Morzine 2006 and 2007, the second time was in March and the grass was a shock!
There are two ways over to Morzine from Les Gets, one via Pleiney which'll give you a 10min skiboot walk or a 5min comedy choo-choo train/bus to the Super Morzine bubble, and the other via the Les Gets bowl and over to the Nyon cable car, where you can get a Navette down the hill into the town. Some of the pistes around the Les Gets bowl and the Pointe de Nyon are really nice, all through the forest.
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1-2 weeks in January? 2007 was green. Basically, it will need to be warm (not a major problem) for 2-3 weeks, *and* rain (which washes all the snow away). If that happens consistently for the next 2 weeks, then start thinking about contingency plans. Otherwise, use those links for exploring the area. If Les Gets is mostly closed, then they'll close the links to Morzine anyway and put all the effort into keeping Pleney and Chavannes slopes open, and they'll lay on special extra buses to SuperMorzine.
In the week that Les Gets was green, we got a full 6 days on snow in Avoriaz (pretty good up at Fornet), with links over to Chatel-Linga and Champery, with only the first day being ropey.
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