Posts Tagged ‘winter’
excellent early snow in the Grand Massif
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
The first week of the season has been the best conditions I have encountered in the 10 years we have been skiing in the Grand Massif. We have spent the last week skiing powder every day. With snow depths between 30cm and 2.4 metres, there is a really good base, it bodes well for the rest of the season.
Tags: les carroz, skiing, snow, winter
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20″ of fresh powder in the Grand Massif
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
40-50 cm of new snow arrived on Saturday night and during the day Sunday, giving us some of the best skiing of the season so far. We had a great day skiing on Monday with untracked powder to be found everywhere. Cascades piste from Flaine down to Sixt (below 800 metres) is open, which means the snow is good right down to 800m. A snow mail alert also came in today with snow forecast for Les Carroz in the next six days.
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First powder of 2010
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
After two days of snow I figured it was about time to get out on the skis, have not been able to for the past two weeks due to a bad back. Conditions yesterday (5th jan) were near perfect, lots of new snow and very few people so lots of untracked powder off piste. Darren and myself skied in the airon and vernant valleys off piste and then a few piste runs in Les Carroz. The Grand Massif is an excellent ski area with something for everyone. From easy greens, wide cruising blues/reds and some very challenging blacks plus extensive off piste.
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Its snowing
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Lots of snow overnight in Les Carroz and the rest of the Grand Massif ski area. Its been snowing all day today and more forecast tommorrow and later in the week. Had to clear the drive at chalet andelain twice today, first test of the quad/snowplough, it worked very well, suspect there may be a few volunteers to help. Its now looking good for the opening of the lifts on the 19th december. Meanwhile it will be skins on and walking up to get a ski back down.
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New ski lifts in the Grand Massif 2009/10
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Les Carroz-New for this season 2009/10 is a 6 man chair at Les Molliet with an uplift of 3000 persons/hour replacing the 4 man chair that had an uplift of 1800/hour. This should get rid of the peak time queues of the past. Also in Les Carroz the nursery slopes at the top of the telecabine have been widened so they are now both sides of the drag lift. My understanding is that returning skiers will be to the left of the drag lift and beginners to the right.
Samoens-A new 6 man chair is replacing one of the chariande lifts but going up to the tete du saix. This will make getting back to the tete du saix a lot faster than in the past.
I will make a report on these new lifts and slopes as soon as the lifts open in December.
Tags: grand massif, les carros, new ski lifts, samoens, winter
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