First Trip on Skis

10/November/09
Accessed from the Joux Plan road, a gentle first ski trip of the season.
40cm of snow at 1800m, no rocks hit.
Not bad!

Trail building volunteers wanted

This is big news for Morzine, the OT (Tourist Office) is asking for help building a new “easy” trail on Pleney. They have brought in a proffessional from Bike Solution to direct the work and they are looking for voluteers to help out on June 16/17th. Brilliant, I can’t wait. “Engaging the users” is something [...]

Les Gets lifts open

May 30th 2009, the uplifts have opened in Les Gets. I got out on my bike for my first local ride of the season. We started with a circuit of Mt Chery, the precipitous bit was sign posted as closed. It was passable but required a little bit of carrying. We got back to Les [...]

Lift opening dates for Morzine and Les Gets.

Les Gets (Chavannes and Mt Chery lift) will be opening a week early for mountain bikes on weekends only from May 30th until June 19th. And then from then on full time.
Goodness knows how, there is more than a normal amount of snow about at the moment!
Looks like the “main” lifts will be open June [...]

Lift Opening Dates in Morzine and Les Gets

Provisional Lift opening dates for 2009 are:
June 6th – limited Morzine and Les Gets lifts open (Pleney every day, Chavannes weekend of 6/7 June and then every day from June 14)
June 27th – full area lifts open
Aug 30st – full area lifts close
Sept 6th – limited area Morzine and Les Gets lifts close