Browsing entries tagged with Les Gets
20 Aug 2021
The Covid pandemic has claimed another casualty in the ski world, with the closure of Ski2, the ski tour operator that has specialised in holidays to Champoluc for the past 22 years. Ski2 founders Simon…
4 Feb 2020
The French ski resort of Les Gets is launching an illuminated, multi-media night walk this summer. The “Lumina night walk” is the first of its kind in a European ski resort and is expected to draw…
8 Nov 2019
Ski 2 started up over 20 years ago as a specialist in Champoluc in Italy’s Monterosa ski area. It now takes around 2,500 people a year there and features over 30 hotels and apartments. Its USP has always…
16 Aug 2019
The French ski resort of Les Gets has massively increased its snow-making facilities for this coming winter, as well as creating a new blue run, a new ski touring piste and building a brand new spa in…
25 Mar 2019
The French ski resort of Morzine is getting in on the early-bird 2020-21 season pass act and offering 5,000 season ski passes for Les Portes du Soleil for just €499 (currently around £435 and half the…
16 Aug 2018
Fat Biking Mountain biking on snow is the currently extremely popular in the Alps, since Fat Bikes were introduced, a Fat Bike is basically a normal mountain bike but with huge, fat tyres which respond…
22 Oct 2017
Tour operator Ski 2 has specialised in holidays to the small village of Champoluc in Italy’s Monterosa region since it started almost 20 years ago. Last year it branched out to offer ski holidays to…
3 Nov 2016
Tour operator Ski 2, which specialises in the Italian resort of Champoluc, is branching out with a new operation in Les Gets, France this winter. Ski 2 has been operating in Champoluc for 18 years, but…
11 Feb 2015
In case it had escaped your notice, Saturday is Valentine’s Day, and ski resorts around the world are running special events from chairlift speed dating to private gondola rides and even mass weddings.…
2 Oct 2013
One lucky Where to Ski and Snowboard reader has booked a holiday he won by reporting for us this year. Every year, WTSS relies on hundreds of reader reports to compile our new edition, and as a thank you…
7 Jan 2013
Were you hoping to get a GoPro for Christmas? If Santa hasn’t delivered, fear not — ski resorts around the Alps have installed video systems in their half pipes and freestyle parks, with automatic…
12 Jan 2012
In a racing-meets-orienteering style challenge event, which hails from the USA originally, the Big Mountain Battle is coming to Europe for the first time. And the host is Les Gets in France. On four dates…
23 Aug 2011
Les Gets and Morzine are introducing some money-saving offers on local area lift passes as part of their new incentives for the coming season. And there is a new range of accommodation to sample too. First…
31 Aug 2010
Les Gets and Morzine have been busy with new developments over the summer, in particular to upgrade access to Chamossière – which has some of the most challenging slopes on the Morzine side. A new six-pack…
4 Sep 2009
Les Gets in France’s Portes du Soleil ski area will have a new run to cruise down next winter and even better beginner slopes. The resort has announced that a new blue piste is being cut to improve…
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