Latest from S3V on Snow Cover & Lift Pass Fraud

S3V, the lift company that manages the La Tania, Courchevel and Mèribel Mottaret ski areas of The 3 Valleys has re-assured us that they are confident of opening the expected lower runs for the 10 December opening.

While the very early snow has suffered lower down with the milder temperatures very good cover remains above 2200m.

Much lower temperatures this week have allowed snow cannons to resume their work and S3V say they will start linking up these huge mounds of snow to create pistes shortly.

With 30 years of managing the snow cover and one of the most advanced snow making systems in the World (for this Winter they now have doubled the throughput of snow making capacity – the amount they can make in a certain time period) they will have the mountains ready for 10 December.

Provisional planned lift opening for 10-16th December 2016.

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Lift Pass Fraud
New security measures will be in place this season to help prevent lift pass fraud.

Lift passes are not transferable and a photograph system that takes pictures at the turnstiles is now available that will compare the lift pass photos that are stored electronically for season passes and check that other passes are not being mis-used.

Photographs will be stored for the validity of the pass and up to two more days. They are processed as personal data in accordance with the privacy/freedom law of 6 Jan 1978.

Snow Cannons working hard on Folyères. Thanks to Michelle for the pic.

And more mounds of cannoned snow this morning on La Troika below…