La Tania Chalet operators work really hard to make sure every holiday is fantastic…

Here they are at a wine tasting with ” Le Verre Gourmand” checking all the wine options out.. Dave (Ski Hame), Ferg (Ski deep), Neil (Alpine Escape), Yuri and Yvonne (Chalet Valeriane, La Praz), Joey and Nick (Nickski) and Andrea (Snow Retreat).. a very enjoyable evening.

Rumours of new Milk bar in La Tania attract attention. Andrea www.snowretreat.co.uk

First signs of the roof at last!

What’s this I see? Part of the roof bless me. And the holes are nearly all filled in. Lose not all hope just yet. Ferg.

More summer pics and the top of another lift to name – Any Ideas?

More summer pics of all those Tarentaise cows making all that wonderful Beaufort d’Alpage cheese. Top of a lift just visible – can you name this one?

Thanks to Kirsy at La Saucisse Savoyarde http://www.lasaucissesavoyarde.com/ for the pics.

Saturday update, the big hole gone

Saturday afternoon and no one at work. Shocking. The big hole is nearly filled in though. Ferg.

The hole that is Meribel high street (or a 5 star hotel car park) – see pic

Thanks to Bring http://www.bringyoursisters.com/ Your Sisters Rich for the latest pic of the main road in Meribel leading up from La Chaudanne to The Tav. You have to use the steps across from the Tav down to the car park to walk all the way around this, some work to do filling this in by December.

Lots of work in Courchevel too, more 5 star hotels going up – and we thought La Tania was being disrupted by the builders…

Proof of 20 new canons on the green run (Plan Fontaine)

Today we walked up the green run and saw all the new canons being installed on the green run back to La Tania. All canons in place and final connections of water and air hoses work in progress. At the split of Fontaine and Murrettes (red run down to Le Praz) there appears to be a connection box for snow canons indicating that they could go down to Le Praz via Murettes as well. In my poor French I asked a man working up there and he said, yes, maybe next year, they would be installing canons down to Le Praz as well. Plan Fontaine also looks like it has been widened and leveled out in places so along with the canons this is a great improvement and benefit for La Tania. Nick and Joey www.nickskithreevalleys.co.uk

Road side stone work nearly complete

Weds 22nd sept update. Crane moved to far side. Stonework nearly done on front. Still nice and sunny but a definite chill in the air. Ferg.

Col de Chanrouge Walk, Valley Les Avals. Name the lift in the pic

On what looked like the last day of good weather for a while, Andrea and Phil of http://snowretreat.co.uk/ Snow Retreat and Joey and Nick of http://nickskithreevalleys.co.uk/ NickSki embarked on a previously unexplored (by us !) walk up the Valley of Avals.

Starting from Courchevel 1650, near the Chaplets lift, up to the col de Chanrouge then back down to Lac de Tueda in Mottaret. A fantastic sunny day all day (Wed 15.9) with clear views over to Mont Blanc and almost tripping over Marmottes nearly every step of the way.

We passed by the Refuge des Lacs Merlet then passed Lac de Petre before ascending to col Chanrouge for a much needed lunch stop. From here we spotted an unusual view of a popular lift, can you recognise it from the picture? Then after admiring the views and much pontificating about how glaciers had carried boulders to certain places we descended to the Refuge du Saut. Then following the streams and rivers down the valley we finally reached Lac Tueda where we had parked a car the night before to take us back to La Tania.

Walk took 7 hours with a lunch stop, hoping to try it again in the winter with touring skis and a GPS.

Public building piste just about complete, still no roof

Only a small hole in the piste now, just keep left. Stonework going on the front but where is that roof? Ferg.