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The Ski Club app has just been relaunched and it looks great with all the required info from your preferred resorts. I'm pleased to see it's suggesting that Courchevel is getting 43cm in the next 9 days. A good start!
Ta, off to download
Hmm, can't find it in android play Store
Ah, iPhone only. Boo.
However the website predicts 92cm for avoriaz. Should be lovely at the end of the month
Just nice for 1/2 term then. 😀
That prediction is guaranteed isn't it?
Anyone found any good offers on ski & boot hire (for Avoriaz)?
Last year I got an offer from Intersport which brought 'black' level skis and boots down to 90 euros. This year I can't find anything close - around 148 euros for the same thing.
The weather forecast from a few days back is doing pretty well so far. The -12°C for the east has been reached, the first snow for the northern Alps has fallen with more on the way. Here in the SW it's cold enough to produce artificial snow as predicted and the forecast for snow on Tuesday is maintained.
A glorious 8 degrees in the sun at lunchtime at Sestriere.
It's been a fabulous short break - 4 days of blue skies on perfectly pisted runs with a few forays 'twixt the trees for a bit of offpiste dabbling.
It's been quite busy although the lift queues haven't been too bad. It's going to be a long wait until April for the next jaunt. 🙁
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nemsis - what dates are you looking? End of Jan the intersport site for avoriaz is offering 50% off for Black kit at €100.
Start of Feb...
That's Parisian half term for you ...
Never any discounts
Strange. I thought that was the same week we went last year
Geoffj that looks great. loads of snow where I am but cold and not so sunny. could do with some of that sun
Told.You.So Chapter 1 by Edukator 😉
@nemesis start of Feb meaning 6th ? I'll ask the wife to look at some French sites later, usually slightly out of the way shops will do good rates if prepaid. Note for example the one we used in Peisey last year was a long walk or a short drive from ski lifts and no ski bus.
Nemesis, The 3 French holiday zones are on rotation every year. This year Paris opens half term and the easter holidays, so I'd best avoid the first week of April too.
You might get 5% off at skimium or more at an independent shop, but you will be hard pushed to get a genuine bargain
Ski Club is just recycling snow-forecast.com - I use that and it's excellent with much more detailed info than the app. Sorry to be grumpy but I don't see the point ?
Thanks for the info. Guess I'll just have to pay up...
Ski Club is just recycling snow-forecast.com - I use that and it's excellent with much more detailed info than the app.
Quite possibly, there are so many forms of info about that I wasn't aware of, such as snow-forecast.
Anyway....just checked and it now says 77cm in the next 9 days. Wahey!
PSA - Ski Sunday back tonight at 1815.
Howsyourdad1 the sunshine has been fantastic. I've not had the sunnies off during daylight hours. Reminds me a lot of home (Perthshire) 😥
Anyone been to Les Menuires?
Looks like typical French soulless concrete monstrosity in the Three Valleys, but just seen a deal there at £590 a person for the week before half term, including flights from Newcastle and kids club included.
Thoughts?
(Or pointers to better deals also welcome for those dates!)
A "typical French soulless concrete monstrosity in the Three Valleys" but with lots of good skiing above it as I recall.
And access to a spectacular sledge run at VT.
cross country thrash for me today
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"Lay Min-weir" phonetically is a fine resort with lift access to some really good skiing. There's an open-air heated pool, all the shops you need, good places to eat and drink. If you can put up with the tasteless concrete everything else is fine.
Looks like typical French soulless concrete monstrosity in the Three Valleys,
Skiing is great which is all that matters!
Any idea how it is for young kids? (3 and 6, first year skiing with the 3yo, the 6yo can do the very basics: turn, stop, plough, drag lifts).
One concern is that the transfer is apparently 3hr+ from Geneva or Grenoble which is never fun with little ones.
flipping 'ell
I know some of us like our drones 🙂
Woo hoo - week before half term in [url= http://www.crystalski.co.uk/ski-resorts/france-ski-holidays/les-menuires/ ]Les Menuires[/url] booked with Crystal. 😀
Kids will just have to suck it up on the long transfer - we'll bring sick bags 😕
(and yes I will be taking my kids out of school thanks 😉 )
I feel like I can finally join this thread properly now. 🙂
Bring on the snow.
and yes I will be taking my kids out of school thanks
Fine with me, I reckon learning to ski is an essential part of a well rounded education 🙂
I can't imagine it's three hours from Geneva airport. It doesn't take us three hours to get from Lausanne to Méribel on a good run and we're 45 minutes from the airport. It looks like it's a bit further from Moutiers on a different road but unless traffic or snow is really bad I think you'll be fine.
I can't imagine it's three hours from Geneva airport. It doesn't take us three hours to get from Lausanne to Méribel on a good run and we're 45 minutes from the airport. It looks like it's a bit further from Moutiers on a different road but unless traffic or snow is really bad I think you'll be fine.
It also depends on which other resorts or hotels within resort that the transfer visits en route.
It also depends on which other resorts or hotels within resort that the transfer visits en route.
^^ Very much this. My sole transfer with Crystal involved racing to the resort and then inching through the resort stopping at what seemed like every hotel possible. So if you've paid the "extra" to be slopeside you'll probably be last off.....
Posted six days ago:
Today is Tuesday. There's no snow forecast for Gourette for a week so I'm expecting cold sunny weather (cold enough to make artificial in abundance as of Saturday and maybe a little tomorrow. The following week it will remain cold and snow a little most days with heavier falls over the weekend of 14/15 January. RDV in two weeks time for the verdict, but if I were booking a holiday I'd be confident of skiing in good conditions as of 15/1/2017
Well after a week of cold sunny weather it's clouding over and there's 1m of snow forecast in the Pyrenees over the next couple of days. The vosges, Jura and northern Alps will be getting snow above 400m tomorrow. Lacahainemétéo 1, doubters 0.
I can't imagine it's three hours from Geneva airport. It doesn't take us three hours to get from Lausanne to Méribel on a good run and we're 45 minutes from the airport. It looks like it's a bit further from Moutiers on a different road but unless traffic or snow is really bad I think you'll be fine.It also depends on which other resorts or hotels within resort that the transfer visits en route.
On the Saturday before half-term, you'll be lucky to do Geneva - Les Menuires in under 5 hours... maybe if your journey is early in the day.
Short transfer....family friendly....hmm, let me think....
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On the Saturday before half-term, you'll be lucky to do Geneva - Les Menuires in under 5 hours...
It's the Saturday for the week before half term (i.e. Sat 11th Feb). Half term week isn't till 18th (around here anyways).
Short transfer....family friendly....hmm, let me think....
Did think about it Flashy but well out our price range - we're already at the £3.5k range as it is! 😯
Eek
Aye! Me, Mrs, grandma and our two kids to pay for. Plus lift passes, equipment and ski school. It soon adds up! 😕
Give me a few hundred for a lads trip to Slovakia any day!
quick question. i was out shredding the gnar yesterday and noticed i was getting wet. how best to re-proof my jacket and trousers? nikwax?
I prefer Grangers to Nikwax as I find NikWax leaves a bit of a vinegary smell.
Been a while since I've done it but looking at their current product line this looks like the job for breathable waterproofs:
https://grangers.co.uk/products/xtreme-repel
GrahamS - 11th Feb is THE half-term week for most regions and for France. I actually thought you meant the weekend of 4th Feb.
That will proabably be the busiest day on the roads of the entire season. I am not looking forward to my trip to Geneva and back!
Off on a short break 26th Jan, staying in Avoriaz for the first time, usually been in Morzine. Worth booking snowboard rental upfront or wait till I get there? Usually take my very old own board, fancied trying something new and higher end. Noticed there is a new Burton shop, do they rent?
Help appreciated.
I concur with GrahamS :
'Granger's XT Proofer Waterproofing Spray for Clothing' has given some old kit a new lease of life.
For best results wash the kit first with the likes of Grangers 30 degree cleaner.
* edit - not sure what the difference is with the new 'Xtreme Repel'. I suspect just a re-branding exercise.
ta and yep was planning on using a cleaner first then reproofing. best results with the machine wash in stuff?
I normally reproof in the washing machine, seems to work best.