Snow is falling
A great day skiing off piste at Les Grands Montets. A grey morning with flat light in patches but chalky snow off piste. The pistes are somewhat hard and icy and one has to commit to your edges to get … Read on…
A great day skiing off piste at Les Grands Montets. A grey morning with flat light in patches but chalky snow off piste. The pistes are somewhat hard and icy and one has to commit to your edges to get … Read on…
We are now in January and the slopes are quiet. Managed to get to La Flegere for an early lift up with the intention of ski touring over to Le Buet via the Col Crochues and Col de Berard. The … Read on…
Deep in the trees at Les Grands Montets At the chalet it rained most of the night with the snow limit at about 1700m so the Saturday market got ignored and it had to Les Grands Montets for a dose … Read on…
Powder, Pizza and Prosecco Day off at the chalet so popped through the Mont Blanc tunnel to Courmayeur. Forecast was for fresh snow in Chamonix and Courmayeur so we opted for the tree line skiing in Italy. The pizza and … Read on…
Plus quite a lot of people. Skied at Le Brevent and La Flegere yesterday in glorious sunshine and not a cloud in the sky. The pistes were in remarkably good condition and you only noticed the million people where the … Read on…
Woke up on Boxing Day to the silence that accompanies snow. 30cm on the driveway (already cleared away by guests as it is the chalet day off). Les Grands Montets was busy but good on piste snow conditions for skiing … Read on…
Decided to venture through the Mont Blanc Tunnel and checkout Courmayeur. Left Chamonix in the cloud and came out in Italy with snow falling. The nearest lift at Val Veny was still closed so drove through to the main Courmayeur … Read on…
Would you believe it; Les Grands Montets opened the lifts this weekend to mark the start of the winter season in Chamonix. We missed yesterday to get insurance and shopping sorted but were up there first in line this morning. … Read on…
After a week of very mixed weather, snow snow and more snow the sun has finally reappeared for the afternoon and looks good for tomorrow but then more snow on the way. April conditions are going to be excellent…..a good … Read on…