Serre Chevalier reviews (Page 3)

March 2007: Interesting terrain, very offpiste friendly. Fruity inactive lift system, high time to upgrade the seat lifts o remove all the damn button lifts in the system. Nice slopes, cozy town, great atmosphere. Would like to go back.

Sun and cold at the moment, but good coverage on the entire upper mountain!
The offpiste starts to get tough .. but when the April snow comes, we have good bass !!

Was in Serre season 04/05, and really had no snow .. but
The times it came, it was good.
The negative is that it is almost too easily accessible off-piste. so
école du ski folka brought groups of 20 pers and
mostly funneled. The other problem was that
the snow angel led to a lot of stone etc in the piste. So instead of
shut off the pistes full of stone and get 10 for free
scratch in the ski every day ...

positive has been the weather. usually snowed at night, sun and blue
sky of the day, thursday that means party on the farm (langleys
hotel) and forest quay. the forest run is good, especially tabuc-
the forest if there is snow ..
there were not really so many people there in the weekdays either, saw it
never be big lift queues.

worth traveling there if snow is good and if not, bring one
couple of old skiing / snowboarding can afford to scratch up .. nobody
snow means open gravel pits.

Have just arrived home after a week in Serre, from 2006-01-07 to 2006-01-14. In short, there has been stagnant sun all week (a bit cool in the shadow but ok). It snowed last 2006-01-01 so the offpiste was quite untouched and bit of rock / gravel on the slopes (clearly disturbing).

Some halfway offpiste rides were found at the Yret lift, from La Cucumelle peak and at Rocher Blanc lift. As for the larch forest, we did not understand all the tribute of this, maybe because there was some snow but in the forest at the Pre Du Bois lift there were some cushions left.

The snow depth at the beginning of the week was 110/60 according to snow-forcast.com/skiinfo.com and 60/30 according to freeride.nu.

Were there at the beginning of January 2001, and I can shorten the whole trip in one word. World-class. We doted totally in what week we left, we had everything. Lössnö Sol to the whole package!

Ski pearls.
Casse du Beuf in Serre 1400. Awesome calm black pist at close to 900fall altitude meter, equally funny, nicknamed me manchester as raised on the eve. The fast 4-chair that is connected, I'm fine!
Aiguilette in Serre 1350. Perhaps the best carvingpisteni in the whole of Serre, so many people find it so that it is often a long way into the day.
Olympique Luc Alphand in conservatory 1350. Long beautiful black backe perfect for driving in big turns. There may be quite a lot of people being shared with, so keep an eye out.

Off-piste.
Cucumelle / Grand Prés in Serre 1500. Knock up on top of La Cucumelle from the top of the elevator with the same name. Takes about 30min but it's worth it! From the top you can go down the Cucumelle valley towards the piste. Pretty easy and the choice most select. A more fun option is to go down the geno Grand Prés back towards Le Monetier. Awesome, I have a good fall height, keep an eye on the avalanche!
Aiguilette in Serre 1350. Yes, just say forest skiing, go into the woods anywhere to go between the slopes to the underlift.
Tabuc in Serre 1500. Yes again, forest skiing. The teachers here are mythical.

Were there at the beginning of January 2001, and I can shorten the whole trip in one word. World-class. We doted totally in what week we left, we had everything. Lössnö Sol to the whole package!

Ski pearls.
Casse du Beuf in Serre 1400. Awesome calm black pist at close to 900fall altitude meter, equally funny, nicknamed me manchester as raised on the eve. The fast 4-chair that is connected, I'm fine!
Aiguilette in Serre 1350. Perhaps the best carvingpisteni in the whole of Serre, so many people find it so that it is often a long way into the day.
Olympique Luc Alphand in conservatory 1350. Long beautiful black backe perfect for driving in big turns. There may be quite a lot of people being shared with, so keep an eye out.

Off-piste.
Cucumelle / Grand Prés in Serre 1500. Knock up on top of La Cucumelle from the top of the elevator with the same name. Takes about 30min but it's worth it! From the top you can go down the Cucumelle valley towards the piste. Pretty easy and the choice most select. A more fun option is to go down the geno Grand Prés back towards Le Monetier. Awesome, I have a good fall height, keep an eye on the avalanche!
Aiguilette in Serre 1350. Yes, just say forest skiing, go into the woods anywhere to go between the slopes to the underlift.
Tabuc in Serre 1500. Yes again, forest skiing. The teachers here are mythical.

Been in Che between 9th and 16th of April 2005. The snow had come, but started to melt, so the village was in the barge.
on the calf mountain there was plenty of snow. spoke with a number of Frenchmen and any Swiss who usually went to the Mont Blanc massif. Serre Chevalier should be a very snowy place, but can also be likened to Karlstad in Sweden, a place that is more than sun-proof.
It was as mentioned in previous reviews the worst snow year ever. But on April 15th the snow came and it was snowing in lots. Woke up on the 16th and was going home to Paris. It had come about 70cm late snow during the night and it was snowing.
The train did not reach the train station in the valley because a large number of trees had crossed the track, and made us so late that it almost became dark before we got there. Even today, I regret that we did not get on the skis this day when at noon the sky broke up and the mountains were white as if it were January!

I was in Serre Che v. 1 yesterday and I did not recognize myself at all. It was the worst winter for over 10 years where they said .. It was really snowy, did not go offpiste and was badly groomed in the slopes.

I did a season there 03/04. It was completely unbeatable! It was how much snow it was and it just snowed more and more. It was one of the best winters they had in recent years! So lucky you doted the right season!
Even though it was really hot in April, it was still possible to go off the piste.

Has oxo been in Alp'd'huez oh Le 2 alpes. Serre Chevalier is a bit more domestic if you can say so. not all comers .. more cozy and french.

Great Allround Skating. quite bad park, some French do not know how to build hope. but off the piste and the woods were absolutely super !!

I think Serre Chevalier can be perceived as "little to do in the evenings" of those who just go there to stay for a week ..
If you live there, there are lots of things to do and many little pearls. It's about meeting the right people only! and of course being curious and getting out! You can not just stay in a city all the time without going to different places different days - that's how it happens!

I was in Serre week 12 this year (2005) and then it was not snowing ... It was 20 degrees hot which did not matter and at the end we went more on clay than snow. According to the guide, this worst snow year was in man's name but it's probably stupid to chance. I would not dare go there so late again ...

I was there week 9 this year. When we got there, it had not been snowing for more than a month so there was no loose snow. Fortunately, it was still around a decimeter by the end of the week, so we got a last day in pillows, but before that, it became easier to stay on the slopes.
Many of these were really nice (except Briancon), although most were full of people. In addition, many of the slopes were higher up in the system full of gravel and rock, so the skis do not look too nice :(

We almost never saw Liftköer by anyone at all, even though it was week 9. We never had to stand in a lift queue for more than a few minutes.

The villages had a fairly calm and nice atmosphere which was quite nice, although there might not be too much to do in the evenings.

Overall, Serre Chevalier was okay, and it's certainly good when there's plenty of snow. Too bad that this does not seem to happen too often.