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Holiday report - St Gervais/Megeve/Combloux



 
 
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Old January 5th 05, 10:45 AM
Roy
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Default Holiday report - St Gervais/Megeve/Combloux

We spent Xmas and New Year in St Gervais and used the "Evasion" ski-pass
throughout. Xmas week was great, relatively few people and a couple of sunny
days with new snow. The snow started to get really grotty towards the end of
the week but then we got a fresh fall just after Xmas - New Year week was
chock-a-block around St Gervais and Megeve and the new snow soon got
trampled to death.

A Snowcoach ski guide we met in a restaurant recommended we try Combloux so
we drove over (about 30 mins including putting snow-chains on) and were
amazed at the place - lovely tree-lined runs, plenty of groomed snow, and
virtually empty! It is very much a beginner / low-intermediate resort, it
was ideal for our mixed ability group and I'd seriously recommend the
place..... even though I skied the arse off it in a couple of days it was
delightful to get away from the bedlam of the busier areas, and it is so
pretty there......It certainly gave us a fantastic last 3 days of the
holiday.

St Nicholas was OK - quiet, but very limited skiing - enough for a foray but
not for a re-visit.

Top tip for lift-pass photos - don't bother!! We had got pics for half of
the group before we arrived in St Gervais and expected to have to use a
photo booth for the rest. The lady in the lift-pass office at the telecabin
simply zapped us with a web-cam and issued us with "smart-card" passes (that
do not carry a photo) - I assume they take your pic in case you lose your
pass.

Roy


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Old January 5th 05, 11:15 AM
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Roy wrote:
Top tip for lift-pass photos - don't bother!! We had got pics for
half of the group before we arrived in St Gervais and expected to
have to use a photo booth for the rest. The lady in the lift-pass
office at the telecabin simply zapped us with a web-cam and issued us
with "smart-card" passes (that do not carry a photo) - I assume they
take your pic in case you lose your pass.


Last year they printed the photo on the Pass, But I think the image can be
displayed on a screen at the lift as you go through the turnstile.


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Chris *:-)

Downhill Good, Uphill BAD!

www.suffolkvikings.org.uk


 




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