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SNOW
SPORTS
'Skiing for all abilities'
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Beginners
The Morzine-Les Gets sector is ideal for beginner skiers and
snowboarders to progress in safety. With professional tuition
from either the Ecole du Ski Français (ESF) or British
Alpine Ski and Snowboard School (BASS), you will soon gain the
skill and confidence to venture up the mountain to explore some
of the gentle gradients and tree-lined pistes.
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Simply
put on your equipment above your chalet, apartment or hotel, and
follow the gentle green run to the Pleney télécabine.
From here you can descend green and blue runs directly back to
your accommodation or Morzine centre.
Alternatively, from the top of Pleney, take a trip over to the
village of Les Gets, with its unlimited array of gentle winding
forest runs and wide-open bowls. On the other side of the village
towards Avoriaz, the Super Morzine sector offers some perfect
slopes set amidst the forest, for beginners. This is ideal territory
for progression, linking into the vast choice of blue runs surrounding
Avoriaz. |
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Intermediate
Directly from the Les Nants area where all our properties are
located, you can ski the 160km of pistes around Morzine-Les Gets
on mainly blues and reds. Then take an excursion to Nyon/Chamossière
or Mont Chery, where you will find wide-open pistes and very
few people. The long runs that gently meander downhill back to
our properties and the village, are virtually guaranteed until
the late season by the many snow cannons.
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Avoriaz
and the Portes du Soleil opens up an enormous wealth of opportunities,
with endless long blue and red tree-lined pistes, open 'motorway
runs' and wide valleys interlinking the whole area whichever way
you gaze.
Enjoy a trip with our guides (catered chalet and hotel guests only) on
the fabulous full-day circuit of the Portes du Soleil. Incorporating
Avoriaz, Les Crosets, Champoussin, Morgins, Torgon and Châtel,
the tour can be covered in a day by upper-intermediate skiers and proficient
snowboarders. You will cover over 80 km, without the same slope twice! |
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Advanced
The huge network of marked pistes and amazing off piste will
satisfy the most advanced skiers. Behind your accommodation,
at Nyon and Chamossière above Morzine, there are some
great powder bowls and fall line skiing. The black runs off the
back of Mont Chery are steep and bumpy.
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High above Avoriaz
are many steep bump runs, hidden gullies and masses of off-piste.
The sector des Super-Noirs has the Combe du Machon, a steep knee-bashing
bump run, and les Crozats further over, with some exhilarating off
piste. The Mur Suisse (Swiss Wall) is fiercely steep. This takes
you over to the Swiss side, with several blacks and plenty of off
piste including the couloirs above Les Crosets for extreme skiers.
The Portes du Soleil's 'Snowcross' zones offer a way of accessing backcountry
terrain in safety. These un-bashed areas provide skiers and boarders the
free sensation of off-piste, yet in complete security.
It is possible to ski almost the entire Portes du Soleil circuit off piste.
The route covers some of our favourite runs, including the Mossettes couloir,
Morgins off piste and Happy Valley in Châtel-Linga. The possibilities
are simply endless! |
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'A
snowboarding mecca'
Avoriaz is one of the major boarding centres of the world. There
is an amazing variety of on and off piste terrain, as well as
eight board parks across the Portes du Soleil. The domain is
board friendly, since most areas and almost the entire circuit,
is navigable without the use of draglifts.
'A wealth of alternatives'
For those looking for an alternative to downhill skiing we can
also help arrange cross-country skiing, snow shoe trekking, ski
mountaineering, ice climbing, ice diving, sledging and even sleeping
in a snow hole!
One evening each week we offer the opportunity to take part
in snow-mobiling. You drive your own scooter for an hour with
a guide, down empty pistes and forest paths - amazing!
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For
information on travel, insurance, childcare, lift passes, ski school
and ski equipment, please refer to Planning
Your Holiday.
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