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A beautiful alpine village sitting high on a col with skiing and boarding to suit all levels and one of the best know bike parks in the World.

Fabulous restaurants, bars and linked to the vast Portes du Soleil ski area…

Well… An eventful first week of 2021 by all accounts… 😳

10th January 202110th January 2021 Admin Blog, Les Gets, Les Portes du Soleil, Snowboarding and skiing
The Burton Stash sign, Avoriaz on a beautiful January day. Barriers up as the pistes are closed due to Covid restrictions.

Well… An eventful week by all accounts and what a season opener for Earth 2021!.. ‘Real life’ is about as settling as an episode of

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Trigger pulled, bullet bitten, splitboard cherry popped!.. On Mont Chéry no less… Fitting…

5th January 20215th January 2021 Admin Blog, Les Gets, Les Portes du Soleil, Snowboarding and skiing
Trigger pulled, bullet bitten, splitboard cherry popped!.. On Mont Chéry no less… Fitting…

Somebody’s got a new tooooy… Yep, that’d be me!.. More of a weapon, actually! The first order of business with the kids back at school

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La Cave Gêtoise, Les Gets – Tell Thierry, you’ve come to behold his magnificent sausage. 😂

30th December 202030th December 2020 Admin Blog, Food and eating out, Funny, Les Gets, Les Portes du Soleil
La Cave Gêtoise, Les Gets – Tell Thierry, you’ve come to behold his magnificent sausage. 😂

Childish… Yep… But we’ve sent a good few people into La Cave Gêtoise to ask Thierry about his sausage and (perhaps pathetically) it makes me

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Christmas 2020, Les Gets

27th December 20202nd January 2021 Admin Blog, Les Gets, Les Portes du Soleil, Snowboarding and skiing
Christmas 2020, Les Gets

Hello! We hope you’re having a lovely Christmas 2020… We certainly are… It’s been different though, obviously, and despite not being able to make our

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Emergency Tartiflette STAT!.. Fear not… ‘Tartif’ to the rescue!

20th December 202030th December 2020 Admin Blog, Food and eating out, Les Gets
Emergency Tartiflette STAT!.. Fear not… ‘Tartif’ to the rescue!

OK. We’ve all been there… Big day on the mountain, wobbly legs, warm fuzzy feeling amplified by a couple of après drinks. What you need

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Winter has arrived!.. The first big dump and fresh tracks of the ‘season’.

6th December 20207th December 2020 Admin Blog, Les Gets, Les Portes du Soleil, Snowboarding and skiing
Winter has arrived and Up-Stix had their first snowboard session of winter 2020

As you’ve probably noticed… It’s puked! Winter has arrived with the first big dump of the ’20/21′ season. We wrote on a Facebook post this

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‘Reconfinement’ sit-rep and recommissioning our close-quarter exploration programme.

19th November 202020th November 2020 Admin Blog, Les Gets, Les Portes du Soleil
‘Reconfinement’ sit-rep and recommissioning our close-quarter exploration programme.

Hi guys!.. How’s ‘lockdown’ part 2 treating you?.. OK, I hope… So far, so good for us in ‘reconfinement’. It’s very different compared to last

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We love a chairlift! 😍 Let’s hear it for the facilitators of our gravity-fuelled fun!

21st October 202011th November 2020 Admin Blog, Funny, Les Gets, Les Portes du Soleil, Mountain biking, Snowboarding and skiing
We love a chairlift! 😍 Let’s hear it for the facilitators of our gravity-fuelled fun!

Blue skies, sunshine, breathtaking scenery, groomed pistes, powder off them, dusty bike trails, big hits and forest freerides. There’s the buzz of the descent, nailing

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A quick update from life in The Gets.

12th October 202011th November 2020 Admin Blog, Les Gets
A quick update from life in The Gets.

Not gonna lie… I’m missing those bike lifts, big time! The old ‘inter-season belly’s creeping in. ‘Get down boy!’ Apart from the odd day here

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Ooo! We’ve got a great new recommendation for a foodie night out in Les Gets.

27th September 202011th November 2020 Admin Blog, Food and eating out, Les Gets, Les Portes du Soleil
Ooo! We’ve got a great new recommendation for a foodie night out in Les Gets.

Well… As you may have seen, some snow arrived. No-one admits it but I reckon there’s an unspoken race to get the first snow pic

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The Burton Stash sign, Avoriaz on a beautiful January day. Barriers up as the pistes are closed due to Covid restrictions.

Well… An eventful first week of 2021 by all accounts… 😳

10th January 2021

Trigger pulled, bullet bitten, splitboard cherry popped!.. On Mont Chéry no less… Fitting…

5th January 2021

La Cave Gêtoise, Les Gets – Tell Thierry, you’ve come to behold his magnificent sausage. 😂

30th December 2020

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