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I've had a busy few days in resort. With Tuesday being my first official "day off" of the season I decided to make the very most of it. On Monday afternoon I went and saw the lovely chaps up at Sports Boutique (next to Le Pub and near the big golden sparkly bear) who loaned me three pairs of snow shoes. At 4 o'clock the next morning, I set off with my brother and a friend for a snow shoeing adventure.
Hamish Brown has been in Meribel since 1992 running Alpine Management Services and is a Director at AMS Rentals. When Merinet was first launched he wrote the snow reports for us before Caroline took over. It's been a while but now he's back with a series of summer road trips in his sporty Morgan car. This is his first installment in that series...
It can be tricky and slightly overwhelming when looking at the number of options for ski lessons available to chose the right one. Will the instructor speak English? Will he shout at me? Will I feel humiliated? How will I feel being a student again after 25 years of not?
Have you ever wished you could possess your very own ski area? Do you long for perfectly groomed slopes for your own private use? Unless you possess the billions necessary to buy a ski resort, the only way of enjoying this particular skiers’ fantasy is to take part in Méribel-Mottaret’s First Tracks.
What a beautiful day for the opening of Meribel! The summer season is a million miles away from the winter season in so many respects. The ‘opening weekend’ was taken at a summer kind of pace, I think I saw around four people during my time up the mountain - bliss!
This hike is four hours there and back through iconic alpine scenes including lakes, towering mountains and raging glacial melt streams. There is also a good chance you will see local wildlife and alpine flowers.
Ski resorts are not generally renowned as centres of culture and provide more corporal enjoyments than intellectual ones.
It’s the last week of the summer season and Méribel is slowly emptying of visitors and becoming quieter. Although the official season ends on 4th September, there is still plenty to do in the valley this month and it is, in fact, one of my favourite times of year.
This past week I have had my parents visiting resort. My mother tried skiing last year and spent most of her time rolling around on the floor while other people tried to pull her back onto her feet only to have the whole process start over just moments later.
It seemed like the perfect time to head to the 3 Valleys to test out the mountain biking there - with the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup on in Meribel over the weekend there were bound to be lots of bikes, great trails and a fantastic atmosphere...
Three new chairlifts, four new pistes, new beginner areas, fun zones and sledding areas: les 3 Vallées has plenty of new developments for you to enjoy this winter.
Aux Alpes are a new snowga, massage and chalet yoga company who encourage wellbeing through yoga and also provide an alternative activity to do in selected ski resorts.
Good grief, it’s nearly the end of the summer already. Where did it go? The summer season in Méribel is short – only nine weeks compared with the twenty-one weeks of the winter season. The summer activities are much more varied and numerous than in winter so the time flies past and I find it’s impossible to fit everything in. I still haven’t walked to the Gebrolaz glacier with my new “everything you ever wanted to know about glaciers” guidebook; still haven’t learned to climb; still haven’t managed to get my golf handicap down (though I’m beginning to think that may be impossible given my lack of natural ability to hit golf balls).
It is true that this ski season is in it’s later stages, but don't think of that as a bad thing.
We all know food tastes better eaten outdoors. Here's our pick of the best spots to picnic.
Why, you may ask, do you need a guide to go snowshoeing around the Méribel valley? If you have read our earlier activity reports, you’ll know you can simply hire snowshoes and set on the marked winter footpaths or explore off the beaten track. Snowshoeing is an easy sport to learn, and doesn’t require much instruction.
A couple of days ago I received a phone call asking if I would like to take part in a 3 part ‘Ski Touring’ course run by New Generation Ski School. Having taken part in, and thoroughly enjoyed various New Gen courses in the past I was quick to snap the opportunity up.
Last Wednesday, myself and eight brave friends aged from early twenties up to late fifties put our lives in the hands of a young ESF instructor named Thomas as he led us down the mountain in a way that none of us had ever experienced before… Introducing the Snake Gliss.