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Chamonix piste maps
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I know it's probably a silly question, but does anyone know where I can get sight of a piste map for the various bits of the Chamonix Valley?
The one on the Chamonix website just shows lifts & the whole valley to boot.
I'm looking for something that shows me each area separately so I can decide which area to ski in.
Thanks
CW Happy
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I'm sure if you google it you'll get something

Also, just ski in Argentiere Smile
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Try this http://www.compagniedumontblanc.fr/en/map-fields-discovered?utm_source=chamonet.com&utm_medium=links&utm_campaign=contract then click on the "interactive map" button towards the bottom for each of the areas.

I also found them difficult to find. I seem to recall I found a better one last year but I can't find it again now.
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cardweg, there are loads of Chamonix experts on SHs - if you tell them what kind of skiing you are after, they'll be able to advise. Here's one for Le tour, to start you off.....

http://www.chamonix.com/plan-des-pistes-balme-tour-vallorcine,184,fr.html

try googling the separate areas
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@8611 - I did try that, but the results didn't give me what I was looking for.... & my son's not ready for the Grand Montets... yet wink
@Dorset Andy - found the interactive maps thanks
@pam w - closest yet to what I'm looking for

Thanks all for the info

CW Happy
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8611 wrote:
I'm sure if you google it you'll get something

Also, just ski in Argentiere Smile


this whole Grands Montets or nowhere thing is dumb rolling eyes
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For kids / beginners I'd say La Tour is your best bet.

I say GM because, in my experience (about 4 trips to Chamonix) the snow was always better there, because (I presume) of the aspect of the slopes which are north facing. In the bowls on either side of the ski area the snow seems to keep for days after a snowfall. Meanwhile Brevant / Flegere is getting hammered by the sun.

Also you can ski right to the bottom in GM, I've never been able to do that in Brev / Fleg. The run from the top of the ordinary lifts to the bottom is very long and very enjoyable, must be about 1800m of vertical with loads of easily accessible off piste. Add 500m to that if you're lucky enough to get up the very top. The lift queues for both Brevant and Flegere have always been big - at GM you can usually choose to get the chair relatively quickly if the gondola queue is long. There seems to rarely be a big queue for the Bochard or Hearse chairlifts once you're up there and the accessible (and relatively safe) off piste options for both are outstanding.

The pistes are more dramatic in Brevant / Flegere, and I believe the off piste descents are too (but these are not accessible to people without local knowledge). But any time I've skied the pistes here the snow has been worse quality than GM.

La Tour and Les Houches are grand but not as challenging or dramatic as the others.

So I stand over the GM over the rest (IMO).
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Le tour in bad visibility is a horror though. Dangerous too. I'm planning a blog post on when to go to which area, will put it here when I'm done.

You're right, those piste maps are difficult to find online. A while ago I scanned them and put them on my site - sorry for self linkage but it's the only place I know where you'll find them all.

http://www.chaletlaforet.com/ski-areas/flegere-and-brevent

and then use the right hand links. Maps are at the bottom for each area, click to enlarge
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