I have been a bit slow at updating this blog recently, but I know that everyone is desperate to find out what the snow conditions are like. The answer? Not bad at all. We haven’t got massive depths, but the Linga, Pre La Joux, Avoriaz and Les Crossets domains are superb. Some of the other areas in the Portes du Soleil are a bit ropey but that seems to be down to poor piste management rather than lack of snow.
The UK media has done us a massive favour this year. Their doom & gloom reports has meant that guests have turned up not really expecting to do any skiing, when in fact there are plenty of runs open.
I even read in the Telegraph last week that Chatel was shut, or suffering badly or something along those lines, whereas the reality was that the North facing areas of the Chatel domain were open with great skiing over to Avoriaz. I think that on slow news days, reporters are quite happy to get un substantiated information from organisations such as the ski club and print it without checking the facts out first.