A special offer for a very Happy New Year

Considering the doom and gloom of the economic climate not only back in the UK but all over the world, we thought that we would like to take the pressure off a little in JANUARY and offer all bookings taken from now until the beginning of the season (8th NOV - 14th Dec 08) a 10% discount.

Avoriaz to open at the end of November!

With reports this week of Avoriaz opening it's 'doors' on the 29th November, the snow cannons have been 'blowing' all week to supplement the snowfall we have been having, making it offical that winter is just around the corner - it's getting rather exciting here at Maverick towers.

With another 'DUMP' due next week, keep logging in to see our first lines of the season........

Here's hoping

According to a Guardian newspaper article from September the 1st, we might be in for a snowy, cold winter.
In the piece entitled ‘Is summer really over?’ a long-range forecaster named Harry Kershaw, using a technique known as simililarity forecasting, has said that 2008’s weather patterns are following those of 1962, which entailed a wet September and a briefly fine October, before descending into a bitter cold winter throughout the start of 1963. So cold in fact, that it became known as The Big Freeze of 1963, and according to the national CET records - which record temperatures going back to 1659 - was only beaten by the winter of 1739-40.

In 1963 the thermometre dropped to -16C, which led to the sea freezing to a distance of 1 mile from Herne Bay, the Thames was briefly turned into a skating rink, and snow settled on much of the country from January until March, with many parts of the country reporting drifts of up to 6 metres.

Cam't be bad.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/01/weather

A magical morning

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

J.B. Priestley

Oh! the snow

Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and earth below, Over the housetops, over the street, Over the heads of the people you meet.

J. Watson

Taken this morning at 1120mtrs

Avoriaz snowiest resort in France - fact

Recently trying to persuade an old friend of mine to do a season here in Morzine, I again found myself defending the area. He has lived in Deux Alps for a number of years and depsite many an occasion of me gloating to him about having more snow over here, he can't get passed the missconception that a low resort won't have any snow.

Knowing the fact of it and understanding there have to be other factors that effect snowfall, other than altitude, I started to research.

among many other things I discovered that according to the Daily Mail ski magazine, with an average just shy of 8m snow a year, Avoriaz is the snowiest resort in France and 5th from across Europe. November 08 issue.

There is a very good entry on the all Mountain Holidays web which discusses this very topic and gives a good number of reasons.

http://www.allmountainholidays.com/weblog/

Also worth a read on this subject: http://www.white-peak.com/weblog/?p=7

and just to ice my argument, it is snowing in Avoriaz as I write this.

Work is never ending

Were still cracking on trying to get things finished before the fast approaching winter. This week we have recarpeted all the bedrooms and the tv room, as well new wood flooring through the upstairs lounge. Could find decent carpet out here so persuaded Carl and his team to bring it all out form the UK and install it, ooh it's lovely.