Archive for the 'Avoriaz' Category

The Stash, Avoriaz freestyle / freeride Burton run

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

A new, organic freestyle / freeride run is being installed at Avoriaz for the new season, scheduled for Jan 08. The Stash at Avoriaz will feature a shedload of natural hits, rails and gaps and can be reached via the Prolays 6-pack chairlift.
There’s a pdf map of the course up on the Rude Chalets […]

Morzine, Avoriaz and the Portes du Soleil

Monday, January 15th, 2007

I stayed in Morzine for 10 days over New Year and got most of my snowboarding in at Avoriaz. Here’s the trip report I’d been promising.
After an overnight stop in Geneva on December 28th, we got our transfer to Morzine first thing the following morning. We checked into our apartment and those of […]

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow… (artificially)

Monday, December 18th, 2006

With the cold weather finally upon us, not much real snowfall to speak of and the busy Christmas holidays to deal with, isn’t it about time we saw the snow cannons in action?
Morzine today is starting to resemble the golf course it was looking like a couple of weeks back. The snowfall was short-lived […]