Never seen better skiing conditions at Christmas.

Christmas from a skiing point of view has been a picture of doom and gloom over the last few years- especially in the lower resorts like Megeve.

But not this year!

Andrea, my ski instructor daughter, and I went on a scouting trip to Megeve ahead of our six-day engagement with our 14 guests from New York.  This was going to be our first daddy-daughter collaboration and we wanted it to go well.

We were initially excited to use the new lift from Le Fayet straight into the St Gervais lift system. A brilliant idea which has failed because you can't actually park the car at the bottom, which left us incredulous to how it all might work.

We skied around the resort making some key restaurant bookings. A lot of the resort was still not open due to lack of snow, yet Andrea and I were content that we would probably have enough snow to keep our guests entertained.

Andrea scouting our Megève restaurants

Plus the weather was beautiful.  

Mont Blanc seen from the top of Mt d'Arbois

The day we were due to meet the weather was not good.  It was raining and sleeting and there was zero view.  Andrea and I were nevertheless impressed by the group's enthusiasm to ski.  Fourtune favours the brave because as we travelled up the cable car the sleet turned to light fluffy snow.

The skiing through the trees was wonderful.

Then it got colder and continued to snow.  Heavily!  All night.  The journey from Chamonix to Megeve took twice as long as normal and was chaotic.  

Again we had wonderful skiing with at least 50 cm of fresh snow.  

Snowy Megeve

After two days of heavy snow the sun came out.  You could not have written the script any better.  The weather and conditions were completly perfect.  If it could be better I dont know what it would look like.

Looking towards Sallanches

Mt Blanc seen from Combloux ski area

The group earned their four days of perfect skiing by being prepared to ski in the bad weather on the first couple of days.  All the ski instructors, restaurateurs, etc agreed that they had not seen skiing conditions at Christmas in Megeve for as long as they could remember.

Infact it was so good I suggested to the team they should consider giving up skiing because it was unlikely to be ever this good ever again! Andrea and I also agreed our first week working together couldn't have been any better. 

Happy Team