I had a rather odd experience on Monday. At 6.00 am my alarm went off in Chalet Katie 2 in Reberty Village. I got dressed, wolfed a bowl of cereal and stepped outside; it was snowing hard.After five minutes I had cleared the snow from our trusty little Kangoo 4x4 and started what turned out to be a snowy, sleety, rainy and generally grim drive to Geneva. I then hopped on a plane to Gatwick where I picked up a copy of the Metro to read on the train to the office.
The front page of the Metro was a little ... frustrating. It seemed to be guaranteeing that as a ski operator I was doomed. Alongside this there appeared to be a suggestion that all of our guests who had booked early season holidays were either unlucky or stupid. Fortunately I knew from my own experiences that they were very wrong - the weather had well and truly turned.
Shift forward three days and this rather ill informed and and lazy article is an utter irrelevance. Reberty Village (sitting at 2,000m in the 3 Valleys) has seen around 70cms of snow and Les Gets is not far behind.
First thing on Wednesday Reberty Resort Manager Dan sent across a picture showing a rather impressive 40cms of snow on the (fairly sheltered) Chalet Eva balcony. Five hours later that had topped 55 cms.
Today the sun is out in both of our resorts. Les Menuires opens this Saturday and Les Gets will open on 17th December (although there is limited weekend skiing this Saturday/Sunday).
My favourite picture of the day is this beauty from one of the Les Gets webcams, simply stunning!
I love the press being wrong!
Chris
1 comments:
Its great to see so much snow! WOW!! I found you from Great Little Trading blog, its so nice to see a family orientated ski operator. We have struggled to go since having children.
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