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We are off to Les Gets again on Thursday.
Without wishing to raise Ise's ire, we would like to spend a couple of days (gently) exploring the further parts of this ski area. We can find our way to Avoriaz and Les Lindarets easily but then get lost/confused despite directions from locals and the so-called ability to read maps.
So, can anyone give precise instructions on the trip as we would like to ski over to Super Chatel / Chamoussin?
Thanks
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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follow the signs? 
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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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ise, Well I suppose I asked for that,
...trouble seems to be that the signs are particularly well hidden around Les Lindarets ... took me a week to work out the 'real' way to Morzine...., and the good lady is rather challenged when it comes to directions 
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Newbie50, I have always found it fairly straightforward to get from Avoriaz to Super Chatel if you go clockwise (via Les Lindarets rather than via the Swiss Wall,etc). Remember that you will have to catch a bus to get to Super Chatel. Perhaps you could use the Tour Operator Ski Guide / Rep or failing that hire a Ski instructor. If your TO does not provide a guiding service it may be possible to bribe the Rep to show you the way (AND THE WAY BACK). Beware - Chatel is a long way from Les Gets by road, a taxi would cost a furtune. Sorry that I cannot give you exact directions but I last skied there 12 years ago.
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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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John Scott, Thanks. We will be travelling independently so reps/TO guides etc. will not be available. Didn't want to hire an instructor as we would expect to the whole thing in a very leisurely multi-coffee kind of way. I'm glad it's easy we'll just have to try again and ask the Mileage Monkeys for directions around Les Lindarets. We knew that by road Chatel was some distance and wanted to avoid that --- but didn't appreciate that you need to get a bus to access Super Chatel.
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| Newbie50 wrote: |
| but didn't appreciate that you need to get a bus to access Super Chatel. |
The reality of links PdS style... I rest my case 
From pointe de Mossette you can ski down to Morgins with no lifts, stroll or short bus (another classic PdS "link") across the village to the other lift and drop into Super-Chatel. Reversing that would be a major pain though, taking the bus back to Villapeyron and then to ski Linga etc would be the return.
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ise, I walked straight into that one didn't I.
Thanks for the tips though , not wahat I wanted to hear about the return trip but we'll see what it's like !
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Perhaps consider taking a guide/instructor for a slow day tour
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sorry typed my reply three hours ago and only just posted duh.
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You don't have to get the bus to get to Super Chatel.
If you come down from the top of Linga, and keep right, you end up on a snowy track through the trees, which eventually becomes a small road, which comes out at the lake at Vonnes, top end of Chatel: it's then a 10-15 minute walk *down* hill to the centre of Chatel to catch the bubble up to Super Chatel.
I also wouldn't start from Les Gets.  Instead, drive to Ardent and catch the bubble up to Les Lindarets, then turn left towards Chatel. That way, you not only save the 1.5 to 2 hours it would take to ski over, at the end of the day it's only one lift from Les Croset (in Switzerland) up to the top of Pointe to Mossette from where it a *looong* run all the way back to Ardent - this minimising the risk of getting stuck at the end of the day.
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