J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by cwagner

Help!! can someone tell me how to upload photos. I have searched here but cannot find anything that tells me how to do it

I Must be dumb :roll:

HI guys

just got back this morning from Morillon 1100 - Les Esserts

all I can say is that it was a fantastic week :D

Chalet Morillon was a gem of a find and I will not go on about how great it was in case it fills up before I can get there next year :lol: I now know why Ian Wickham does not go on about it - he wants to keep it to himslef too :lol:

Plenty of snow when we arrived and some excellent family skiing. Chalet Morillon is right on the beginners slope with fantastic views down the valley. We came out of the boot room, clipped on our skiis and skiied to the bottom of the beginners run to catch the poma up and a very quick walk across the road to the main Sairon chair up the mountain. The runs from the top of the Sairon chair down into Les carroz were my favorites, in particular Timales and Morriollets (sp??) We ventured across to Flaine a couple of days but I definately prefer the Morillon, Samoens side of the mountain. Very cute typical Savoyuard treelined slopes and wide open runs.Some excellent huts to grab lunch, there was not much else we could ask for.

Daughter no 2 now snowboards and she was zooming down the runs with dad and daughter no 1 in front of the rest of us!

On the fourth day (of our 8 day stay) the runs near the bottom were in a bit of need of snow and voila! two full days of snow arrived. Even with the snow there was very clear visibility and for those of you that are going for the New Year week, there is so much snow and it was bright blue skies when I left yesterday. You guys are in for a great week :D

We will definately return to Morillon as there is a distinct lack of hooligans careening down the slopes and a fantastic family atmosphere. The home runs at the end of the day are brillliant - even with sore and tired legs it is an easy cruise down a nice red or the green Marvel run.

I cannot recommend it more highly.

When I figure out how to do it I will upload a few photos.

We are now looking forward to our Oberlech/kitzbuhel trip in January and February

Ian Wickham wrote:

cwagner wrote:

bandit wrote:I'm in a ski resort now and there is plenty of snow at village level, but it's too dark to ski and the lifts are shut :roll:

Bandit - which country are you in and how high are you?

I just checked the webcams for Morillon (well Les carroz and Samoens actually as Morillons are not up and running yet :)) and there seems to have been a dump overnight as forecast

6 days to go :D

There has been no dump overnight, they have had the snow cannons on.

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bandit wrote:I'm in a ski resort now and there is plenty of snow at village level, but it's too dark to ski and the lifts are shut :roll:

Bandit - which country are you in and how high are you?

I just checked the webcams for Morillon (well Les carroz and Samoens actually as Morillons are not up and running yet :)) and there seems to have been a dump overnight as forecast

6 days to go :D

they said there was plenty of snow with more forecast

thanks guys for the reassurance

I even emailed the Chalet toa sk them what the snow was like :roll: I know. I'm hopeless

Hi All

rain is forecast in Grand Massif (Morillon, Samoens)for the next few days and I am going on 17th :cry:

Is anyone there at the moment to let me know what is the snow situation and if I should be panicking?

I had to beg the OH to go on this trip and if it is a washout I will never ever live it down :!: