 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi folks...
Quick question really for anyone living in or around the St Gervais / Les Contamines areas... Is it possible to get access to Saint Nicolas de Veroce from Les Contamines without going into SG and then back on yourself... Was just wondering as it looks a like a good (and quiet) entry point if you can...? Google maps shows you can but I am thinking that maybe they are not roads and more like 'tracks'....
Thx all 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I've only been to the area twice and driven up to Les Contamines from St G and back a few times but I've got a feeling that they are just tracks and not kept open in the winter. So unless you've got a Defender with a full set of chains...
If you have to go the long way round you might as well park at Les Bettex.
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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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AlpineAddict, no, not by lift. If you want to do some uphill under your own steam and some off-piste, it's possible to scale Mont Joly from which it's down to St Nicks in one go. They've been talking about adding lifts to link the two at a low level for years and years.
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AlpineAddict, do you mean driving? there's certainly no need to go anywhere near St Gervais - just drive up the road. 4.3 km according to google maps.
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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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Folks, sorry, should have made it clearer in the OP... Yes, I meant by car... pam w, Google maps does show it as being possible but I think they are via tracks that will certainly not be open in Winter... 
Thx
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AlpineAddict, I think it would be open - google maps usually indicated if a route may be seasonally closed and there's no such indication. It's very low to have roads closed.
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| pam w wrote: |
| AlpineAddict, I think it would be open - google maps usually indicated if a route may be seasonally closed and there's no such indication. It's very low to have roads closed. |
Except that the route up to St Nicholas from the main Les Contamines road looks like little more than a farm track in places on Google satellite view.
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agw, you may well be right. I've just checked a route which I use regularly in the summer, but which is completely snowbound all winter, and google maps don't mention that the road might be closed. It's an unclassified road (essentially a forestry road only) so perhaps they only indicate routes which are "formally" closed. I've never looked at that route on google maps before as I know perfectly well where it is but although it's a tarmac road (albeit one with a fair few pot holes) it's most definitely closed all winter.
AlpineAddict, you could presumably ask the guy you're buying the place from?
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pam w, Thx for this... I think you're confirming what I already know... and yes, I could ask there agent... The person who lives there is about 80 and speaks no French so that would be more of a dead end than this road by all accounts... Thx anyhow...
It was more out of curiosity than anything else...
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