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‘Saison blanche’ (White season)… Sounds good… Turns out it’s not.

22nd January 202113th April 2021 Admin Blog, Les Gets, Les Portes du Soleil, Snowboarding
January 2021 trees and chalet roofs covered in heavy snow in Les gets in France

We woke to a rather subdued atmosphere here today (Friday). I’m not sure if it was just in our heads or in the ether but

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Mega-dump of snow in Les Gets!.. Even Reuteurs got in touch! 😲

17th January 202113th April 2021 Admin Blog, Les Gets, Les Portes du Soleil, Snowboarding
Mega-dump of snow in Les Gets!.. Even Reuteurs got in touch! 😲

OK. This is definitely ‘Sod’s law’… No travel, no lifts and what happens?.. MEGA DUMPS of snow in Les Gets! This ‘season’ had already got

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

10th January 202110th January 2021 Admin Blog, Les Gets, Les Portes du Soleil, Snowboarding
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
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
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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Keep that snow coming and this late starter could end with a bang! 🤞

16th December 202030th December 2020 Admin Blog, Les Portes du Soleil, Snowboarding
Snow trees sunshine Blue sky mountains Avoriaz, Portes du Soleil, in Winter Up-Stix Images

Well, we’ve been banging out the snowy pics on social media and if you thought we were all a bunch of jammy beggars, one of

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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
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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Celebratory Mont Chèry summit and the popcorn’s in for the latest ‘scheisse’ storm.

29th November 202015th April 2021 Admin Blog, Hikes, Les Gets, Les Portes du Soleil
Celebratory Mont Chèry summit and the popcorn’s in for the latest ‘scheisse’ storm.

Happy rules relaxation day! The 1km radius from home for 1 hour daily exercise limit of the last month in France was extended yesterday to

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

19th November 202024th June 2021 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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