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Zermatt 2nd weekend December
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A few questions on here about early season skiing. Although we do most of our skiing in Verbier and Chamonix we are massive fans of Zermatt for early and late season skiing. Here are some pictures from our annual 2nd weekend of December trip to Zermatt. These are from last year....

Saturdaz lunchtime. Brrr -25 degrees!


What's that appearing through the clouds


Great blue run cruising over on the Cervinia side


Sunday morning - that's more like it


The Breithorn - The easiest 4000m peak to get up in the Alps


Clouds coming in again on the Italian side Sad


Let's get lunch. Swiss side down from Kleine Matterhorn still in sunshine


Cruising


Dufourspitze - highest peak in Switzerland


In the trees down to Furi


Preggers walks up to meet us at Zum See


The classic Zermatt view


Up the Gornergrat side


Heading down to Gant


Never get bored of the view


We found some powder under the Rotthorn


It hadn't snowed for a few days but there there are a few secret stashes


Last run of the day back into town


Is there a better Alpine experience than Zermatt?
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coolio ... a bunch of us from Vaud/Geneva are heading up there 11/12th Dec which I think is that very weekend .... have you got any recomendations for hotels ?? ... I wasn't very impressd with one we stayed at there in March.
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RichA, which one would you not recomend?
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I've been twice, I love the place

My daughter in front of some random mountain there Smile

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Fantastic place - but -25°C? Brrrr indeed!
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Roy Hockley wrote:
RichA, which one would you not recomend?


It seems a bit unfair to name them on here .... I didn't like it because it wasn't particuarly cheap (85CHF pppn), was fairly basic and there was no breakfast available ... we got the impression (possibly wrongly) that it was an apartment but it turned out it was just hotel rooms so we couldn't make breakfast ourselves and having to go to a cafe every morning is a right pfaff.

It was right in the centre of town and maybe that's what you get for your money there but when we go back we will be going somewhere else ... the lifts are at each end of the town so there's no real benefit in being in the centre and I'd be happier staying somewhere of better quality further out.
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Fantastic place - but -25°C? Brrrr indeed!

Last time I went, February 2009, it was nearer -30°C, particularly noticeable when you came back from the Italian side into a strong head wind at 3000m+.
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You might want to try the youth hostel in Zermatt. The swiss youth hostels are fab for all ages - http://www.youthhostel.ch/de/hostels/zermatt
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Colin B wrote:
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Fantastic place - but -25°C? Brrrr indeed!

Last time I went, February 2009, it was nearer -30°C, particularly noticeable when you came back from the Italian side into a strong head wind at 3000m+.


Haha yes, done this, then got lost and went down a blue rather than a red and actually had to pole down the piste as the wind was so strong and it was pretty flat, followed by poling alongside the longest, flatest drag lift in the world.... I think that day was the coldest I've ever been.
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