Chamonix

Sick skiing

it was a great trip- we were there for new years, all the guys went snowboarding and me and my girl-friend hung out and went shopping-we took tons of pictures. it was a lot of fun and i recomend it to anyone.

Spent some time there as a kid. Once we had to walk back up to the chalet since the roads to town were impassable…I remeber trying to scale the slope behind the gouse ad sliding down around 300 feet ! Good thing I was so young or I would have been terrrrrified! My sisters and I hiked up the mountain behind the chalet and saw the most beautiful clacier ! I’ll never forget the ice blue colour! Amazing! L’guuile d’medi was incredible as well! I remember it was dec 24th and I was dissappointed that we had no snow yet! (I had never seen snow yet) . I was walking back to the chalet when it started! It was around 6 feet deep by the next morning! Ron (My step father and best friend) had a snowball fight and he lost his ring,. ..By a miracle I found it the next day in the snow! I miss Chamonix and the innocence and, of course, my step father and best friend, Ron.

Wonderful experience having a snowball fight on western Europe’s highest mountian on July 10th…while wearing shorts and a t-shirt. I was super scared riding the cable car to the top but felt like a mountian man hiking down the entire mountian (unguided). Very cool. The people were rude though.

Chamonix was in my opinion the most beautiful place in the world. My Fiance and I were there for a week in Summer 2004. We decided to catch a cable car up the mountain that day so we could play in the snow. Once we were through with the snowball fighting, we went for a trek to a lake that was in a bowl between two mountains. Unfortunately we overshot and ended up about six kilometers past the lake and decided to head back to the cable car to find that it had stopped for the day, we began the 2.5km vertical descent. 7 harowing hours later, we bashed
the snow off our boots and hooked into some great tucker at nearly midnight.
I was starting to calm down after our encounters with deer (scary horns included) and marmots in the dead of night. Looking back it was all very funny. Especially when we couldnt see shit so we used the lcd on our camera as a torch. Any way, we then decided on a day of rest, so we cruised around chamonix for a bit, anyone going to france MUST visit this place, its expensive, but well worth it. The following day we caught a train up the mountain to a glacier and went into an ice cave(tourist gimmick) that was quite cool, excuse the pun.

went inside a glacier n stuff :P dude.. first time ive ever seen SO much snow!!

Very pretty area. Go touch the glacier!

I spent several days hiking, drinking wine and eating fondue in Chamonix in 2002. One of my favorite traveling experiences…

This is one of my favourite places in the world… it’s so beautiful!

Luv Cham!

Been there for totally 4months split in everything from one week vacation to 2 month bumming. Have mainly lived in Argentiere, since it is closer to Grant Montets. It is a bit quiter, but still wonderfull. I do in contrary to many others like that the different skiing systems are split. This will make you choose skiing according to your mood for the day (and the weather).

To get the most out of the skiing I would recommend that you are not a beginner when you go to Cham. The best skiing is not in the slopes. Take La Tour for example, quite booring slopes (flat ) but if you peek outside you have some challeging skiing.

There are some really nice restaurants is Chamonix, even one with a famouse star (or two). You can also find cheap stands with just a burger. The have this strange thing where they put a burger in between a big bread with french fires in there as well. Tasty but it´s quite tricky to eat it.

If you go there in the spring a really recommend ending a couple of days early and just relax on the nice cafés.

I will finish off with a warning though. If you are not experienced in off-piste skiing, where the right equipment and never go alone (or don´t go at all is probably the best). It is dangerous, avalanches and people falling inte cravasses are common. Don’t let the weather fool you.

Every system has it´s own personlaity and you will probably find your own favorite, my favorites are definately or order Gran Montets, La Tour, Brevant/Flegere….

Enjoy probably the best skiing in the world and I hope that it has snowed for two weeks before you arrive.