Morzine and Samoens are not exactly far from each other/ the other side of some honjagged col….At best 1/2 hour in the car!
Northern alps get the worst of the weather when it’s bad.
Pralognan en Vanoise would be good for the lift assisted walking. The Jura is great but more rolling than lift assisted walking.
Les Saisies is a good shout and the undeveloped Beaufortain is just down the hill and across the river. Drop down form Les Saisies the other way and you have St. Gervais and then Chamonix etc.
Annecy and its lake is very popular. Understandably so.
Briancon area? Lot better weather generally. Lakes aroun, vallouise stations, Serre Chevalier station, lakes, undeveloped Ecrin national park… Barcelonnette: beginning to get in the south….real beautiful alpine mediterranean scenery…
Dan. Near Grenoble. An Ecrins, Chartreuse, Vercors, Belledonne and southern alps generally fan boy and aspirant international mountain leader.