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Les Gets Bike Park to open next weekend
The summer season is here!
Usually, the Chavannes area of Les Gets opens at this time of the year for weekends with the full opening taking place mid-June. However, conditions have forced the lift company in Les Gets to alter their plans. Due to the incredible amount of snow that fell throughout the Portes Du Soleil throughout last winter, there is still too much snow on the slopes of the Chavannes meaning that it will not be possible to open this area just yet. Therefore, the decision has been made that the show must go on and now the Mt Chery lift and the trails on that side of the resort will be opening instead.
The Mt Chery Gondola will be open from 09:00 to 17:30 on Saturday the 26th and Sunday the 27th. The area will then be open the following two weekends - the 2nd and 3rd of June and the 9th and 10th of June before opening full time from the 16th of June to the 2nd of September. Passes are €18 for the day, and season passes will be valid.
More of the Les Gets bike park could open during this period and, at the moment, the shapers are working to get the tracks ready and clear the snow. However, tracks are not in a suitable condition to ride and there is still too much snow both on the tracks and around the pistes, meaning that they aren’t safe and there is not adequate access for safety teams and medical staff should an accident occur.
The tracks that will be open on Mt Chery are Les Biquettes (DH green), Dans L’Gaz (DH Black), Gets Airline (DH Black), Les Clarines (XC Blue) and Les Alpages (XC blue).
There is currently no word on whether the published opening dates for the rest of the Portes du Soleil bike park will be able to go ahead as planned, with the Pleney scheduled to open for summer on the ninth of June and Super Morzine, Lindarets and Chaux Fleurie currently scheduled to open on the 21st of June. The full Portes Du Soleil area is scheduled to open on the 29th of June for the Passportes Du Soleil weekend. There is currently still quite a lot of snow on Super Morzine, so the higher areas in Lindarets and Chaux Fleurie could still have even more.
The amount of snow currently on the mountain is quite unusual for this time of year, but the dedicated staff will be working hard to get the runs open for summer, particularly for the Pass'Portes weekend.
