Today I managed to get my first 2009 ride on the slopes of Mont Chery.
I had to stop for my coffee at the La Grand Ourse restaurant to say Hi to Gary and Theresa. They reported that last week was the first time that the whole Les Gets lift system was running at full capacity! No wonder Kevin was complaining about the queues when they rented the apartment over the New Year. Although, it must be very good news for all the local shops like Nevada Sports who have had a couple of poor years.
I’m here for the next 24 days 🙂 Oh the joy of retirement & owning an apartment in the French Alps!
Sally and the boys are out with me next week followed by my long time friend George and his kids. If you are out here, or want to come over, please twitter or call me.
Another site for checking the predicted monetary value of your website over at WebValuer. Here are the results for GeoffJones:-
Cool to see I’ve had the site for over 10 years now and interesting to see there seems to be a slight upward trend in visitors. At $7.74 a day I’m not going to get rich by on-site advertisements.
However, the site is very effective for renting out my ski apartment in the centre of Les Gets in the Portes de Soleil ski region in France & Switzerland. All of my bookings in the past 5 years have come from the page I created here.
Its beginning to look good for winter sports in Les Gets, France where my apartment is. Here is the webcam view taken this evening from the tourist office looking towards the apartment.
Currently I have bookings on the following dates:-
26 Dec 2008 to 4 Jan 2009 (KB party of 4)
4 Jan to 31st Jan (GJ various parties)
31st Jan to 7th Feb 2009 (AH party of 6)
16th Feb to 23rd Feb 2009 (CP party of 6)
1st Mar to 8th Mar 2009 (SR party of 4)
11 Mar to 15th Mar 2009 (IH party of 4)
18 Mar to 22 Mar 2009 (PC party of 5)
10th April to 15th April 2009 (KB party of 4)
To see the complete google calendar click here.
If you want to fill the gaps, send me an email at lesgets@geoffjones.com
One of my ambitions since getting my apartment in Les Gets has been to snow shoe walk up and board down the impressive Roc d’Enfer (2200m) which you can see from the top of my favourite hill, Mont Chery.
Dangerous walk on Roc d'Enfer
Last week with Sally and Ray we explored Roc d’Enfer (nb. Enfer is the French word for hell) with some trepidation as it starts with this little warning “Very dangerous route not fitted out with safety device. You walk here at your own risk” Which after walking the GR5, GR10 and GR20 with no such warnings made me wonder 🙁
Well, to say its interesting is perhaps an understatement. The walk starts off as a standard alpine route (550m in 3km) . However, once you get to Col de Graydon it becomes a full blown (for a walker) hands and feet job (200 vertical metres in about 400metres). Upon reaching the white cross (le Creux des Neiges) you get to see the awesome task you have set yourself as the path snakes along a ridge 1m wide – not flat but more like the edge of a saw! Pretty scary stuff for someone who suffers a bit from vertigo (having thoughts about accidentally falling off, not the dizzyness associated with classical vertigo) since both sides of the path are essentially vertical drops 🙁 and it didn’t help following someone who decides to stop every so often on the narrow path!
The worst is yet to come, that’s right you obviously have to descend at some point! Not easy on crumbly rock covered with a thin layer of soil and grass. Once you get to a ‘normal’ ridge at Tete de Charseuvre everything seems so easy 🙂
We eventually made it, taking about 6 hours from l Encreanz to le Foron.
Not sure if I’m so keen about snowboarding it now 🙁
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