Saint Gervais Ski Season 2016

Les Contamines

Lovely day up the top today.

Fresh tracks, couldn't resist, perfect

John Clavey Posted on January 27th, 2016

Donkeys

Penny liked the Donkeys, reminds me of a game we played with the Goodalls and Liles last week :)

John Clavey Posted on January 27th, 2016

Nendaz visit

Popped over to Nendaz to visit Dunc and his friends for the day :)

John Clavey Posted on January 27th, 2016

Sisters Visit

The Gang

Room with a view

Pete at the top 2435 metres

Sledging in the back garden

John Clavey Posted on January 27th, 2016

Mont Blanc

Wow. Finally a good clear view of Monty :)

John Clavey Posted on January 18th, 2016

The Snowman

Rest day from skiing. Time to build a snowman :)

John Clavey Posted on January 14th, 2016

Sunny Day

Today we had the best of both, new snow and sunshine. skiing above the clouds.

Standing at the bus stop waiting for the bus that wont turn up (we found out that it doesn't run in January after reading the sign properly)

John Clavey Posted on January 14th, 2016

Finally the real snow is falling, It looks cold, but actually it was very pleasant out on the slopes with a light to medium snow falling. Managed to get five runs in with my new boots today, still killing my toes, might need to make some more adjustments before I can finally break them in properly.

Back home again in our nice warm Chalet with a cup of Chocolat Chaud with marshmellows :)

Woke up this morning to even more snow, falling all night long right down to the village (check out the webcam of St Gervais, looks great.)

Might try the bus today, car looks a bit too buried.

John Clavey Posted on January 13th, 2016

Rain :(

First group of visitors arrive at Chalet Philippe only to find the nice snow that fell Thursday morning had all washed away from the rain that then fell for four days almost non stop. But that didn't dampen their enthusiasm to give this new sport a really good go.

Kate, Laura, Jayne, Duncan, Linda and Martin

All four new skiers had a private group lesson all day on the Friday. Laura and Martin progressing nicely the first beginner slope to the second and even the third level slopes.

Day two for the newbies and they found themselves skiing right from the top of the mountain, progressing to blue slopes on day three, it is amazing how much easier it is to learn to ski nowadays with this new equipment.

Luckily we even had a morning without rain on the Sunday, before they had to depart.

Saturday evening we went out for our first local restaurant meal down in St Gervais, It was a Savoyard restaurant which served my favourite dish Tartiflette :) This I followed up with Tatin Glace, complete with monkey keyring decoration.

Our road is so steep there is a sign both ends to say residents only :)

Finally...... We woke up this morning (Tuesday) to fresh snow and a steady snow fall, looking at about 1 metre up at the top, and forecast is snow all week with the sunshine following from Saturday onwards, Here we go, ski season starts properly now...

John Clavey Posted on January 12th, 2016

Ski Video

Quick video from our second day ski at St Gervais

Click here :- https://youtu.be/1EP8RLHBa34

John Clavey Posted on January 7th, 2016