Les Houches opening in doubt

There is a report on Piste Hors about the ongoing local politics at Les Houches in the Chamonix valley, which may result in the resort failing to open this winter.

http://pistehors.com/news/ski/comments/0853-les-houches-to-be-closed-08-09-season/?gid=853000

:shock:

It's a good place to ski. If it fails to open, where will the Kandahar Downhill be run? :(

bandit wrote:There is a report on Piste Hors about the ongoing local politics at Les Houches in the Chamonix valley, which may result in the resort failing to open this winter.

http://pistehors.com/news/ski/comments/0853-les-houches-to-be-closed-08-09-season/?gid=853000

:shock:

It's a good place to ski. If it fails to open, where will the Kandahar Downhill be run? :(

that's Chamonix for you, they'll be running a leaflet up by now telling you what great value that is )

Another insight into how French skiing is run on Pistehors as well :

http://pistehors.com/news/ski/comments/0852-briancon-on-the-brink/

Such a shame, Briancon is a proper French ski town, and there's really not that many :( Visited a few years ago, and thought it was an impressive place. I had no idea about the heated pavements though 8)

bandit wrote:Such a shame, Briancon is a proper French ski town, and there's really not that many :( Visited a few years ago, and thought it was an impressive place. I had no idea about the heated pavements though 8)

I'd not heard about the pavements either but there's a lot of that type of thing went on, one of the very familiar strands there is bank loans. The bank were happy to make loans that they wouldn't have made for real commercial projects, that kind of soft financing topped up with state funding built quite a few ski projects around France many of which weren't such good ideas. David's also written before about the decline in French skier days so there's a few chickens coming home to roost, that was the real situation for Abondance of course as well.