There are few things sweeter than a quick snack on your favourite chairlift. We’re all fond of oat bars for the essential shred energy, but sometimes, we just want a warm, pocket squashed pain au chocolat.
What kind of chairlift snacker are you?
The sweet tooth
Everyone’s best friend on the chairlift, you’ve always got a bag of Haribo stashed somewhere in your jacket to dish out. Smurfs one day, Star Mix the next.
The cereal survivalist
You never leave the house without a cereal bar. Just in case. For you it’s somewhere between a healthy snack and a chocolate bar, the substance you crave to keep hunger at bay between shreds. These’ll last for weeks, so no worry of overstocking your pockets.
The chalet sneak-thief
What’s in your pocket today? Whatever was for breakfast at the chalet, obvs. For most of you, this just means a croissant wrapped in cling-film, but for truly ambitious snackers this can be anything from salopette-scrambled eggs to last night’s tartiflette in a baguette.
The hasty pastry
Danish, croissant, pain au chocolat, apple turnover. It’s all good. Scoffing down a tasty pastry from the boulangerie on the chairlift is your favourite, and best of all, you can quickly brush off the evidence before you get to the top. So why not have two?
The protein pro
SKI. LIFT. SNACK. GYM. EAT. SLEEP. REPEAT. Ever conscious of the delicate balance of protein your body craves, you always make sure to top up with your favourite protein bar on the hill.
The bag-o-baguettes
Overzealous snowboard shop assistants will bore you with technical jargon and the latest trendy
Whatever you munch on the mountain, book your beginner, improver, intermediate, or private lessons with REAL Snowboarding on your next winter holiday to Morzine, Avoriaz, and Les Gets, and learn to ride (and snack) the REAL way.
Simple instruction. Stylish snowboarding.
Book your snowboarding lessons today: hello@realsnowboarding.co.uk
Avoriaz is one of several stunning resorts, in the heart of the Portes Du Soleil ski area, where REAL Snowboarding teach, instruct, coach, and play.
A purpose built, car-free, architectural wonder atop dramatic alpine cliffs – it’s hard not to fall in love with the unique ski resort as you glide over its sharp, sloping rooftops for the first time on the Tour chairlift.
Nestled inside this cozy mountain retreat is a plethora of self-catered apartments, charming wood-clad hotels and plenty of cool shops, restaurants and bars to cater for all tastes – all served by horse-drawn sleds, and snowy foot tracks.
It’s no surprise Avoriaz is one of the ski resorts REAL Snowboarding call home, and thousands of keen skiers and snowboarders visit every winter.
Avoriaz in numbers
Altitude: 1800m
Chairlifts: 18
Gondolas: 2
Draglifts: 14
Total km of pistes: 75.5km
Longest run: 6km
Green slopes: 4
Blue slopes: 25
Red slopes: 14
Black slopes: 6
Nearest airport: Geneva
Why we love snowboard lessons in Avoriaz
Learning to snowboard demands a variety of terrain, ranging from gently sloping green runs for beginners, to more challenging pistes for more advanced riders to enjoy. Fortunately, Avoriaz has everything a snowboarder needs from their very first lesson, right up to competitive snowpark riding.
The Burton Stash provides limitless creative opportunity for those looking to take their freestyle snowboarding to the next level, whilst the wide, long pistes in the Lindarets bowl provide fun side-hits, groomed pistes for carving, and quiet spots to link turns for the first time.
Avoriaz, an architects’ masterplan
For those of you looking for something a little different to the quaint french village vibe, make your next winter holiday a trip to Avoriaz. There really is nothing like the experience of the sun setting through the Morzine valley, behind the stunning shapes and outlines of Avoriaz’s chic buildings there really is no going back.
Unique amongst the many purpose built french ski resorts of the 1960s, Avoriaz was designed by architects Jacques Labro, Jeans-Jacques Orzoni and Jean-Marc Roques with acute angles and red cedar wood cladding to resemble the very mountains that surround them. The result is breathtaking, and looks like an extension of the sunny shelf on which the buildings rest.
Snowboard lessons in Avoriaz
We always set our snowboard lesson meeting point at the top of the very accessible Prodains Gondola, with snowboard lessons beginning in the morning, mid-morning, and afternoon.
Getting to the Prodains Gondola is easy peasy, whether you’re staying Avoriaz itself, Morzine, or Les Gets. With free, regular bus shuttles throughout the resorts, it’s usually just a quick bus ride and a swift whisk away up the alpine cliffs, with beautiful views to get your stoked.
Book your beginner, improver, intermediate, or private lessons with REAL Snowboarding on your next winter holiday to Avoriaz and learn to ride the REAL way.
Simple instruction. Stylish snowboarding.
Book your snowboarding lesson in Avoriaz today: hello@realsnowboarding.co.uk
Photo credit: @samuelmcahon
AliKats are a very reputable chalet company based in Morzine that prides themselves on using local produce and cutting down their food/footprint on the map. We all know more than ever that we need to think carefully and educate the next generation to take care of not just our mountains but also the planet in every country and every continent. AliKats have provided us with a beautiful video showing just first hand what they do as a company and how they promote this philosophy so many of us such take more action with.
If you would like to know general information about AliKats then click here to visit their wonderful website but had a check out of their Environmental Policy before you book the next chalet holiday and maybe you will be learning first hand from them in the beautiful resorts of Morzine, Avoriaz and Les Gets.
If you don’t know Likibu yet it will definitely help you looking for the ideal vacation rental. Likibu is a vacation rental search engine comparing more than 4.5 million accommodations. In one click, you will be able to access to the best search results because Likibu will compare the most popular
website location availabilities.
Likibu is not only about comparing vacation rentals but it also gives, through its website, tips about what to visit during your holidays.
Reserve your vacation rental today !
Fin Bremner may be unknown to many people in the snowboard world but he has been a keen figure in the dry mat scene since a young age. Barry Parker of Real Snowboarding has been his coach and mentor for years alongside Ben Kinnear and both have helped direct Fin towards a bright future within snowboarding. He is a regular visitor to Morzine and Avoriaz spending all his time either in The Stash or Avoriaz Snow park. If you want to see his latest endeavours check of his latest edit below;
Many of you may know of the famous Folie Douce that is situated in various resorts throughout the French Alps. This winter it will be in the resort of Avoriaz. The introduction of the Folie Douce will no doubt bring a much needed apres-ski to Avoriaz.
There will be live music between 2pm and 6:30pm each day. Tables to dance on will be an obvious attraction and its situated in a sunny spot! No more cold apres ski drinks! woohoo.
Find below a video of what we expect to hit Avoriaz and Morzine this coming winter:
New developments have been planned and finalised by the committee of Morzine Avoriaz. This will extend the lift system and give access to all resorts allowing you to travel between Morzine Avoriaz without the need for a bus. There will also be 500 additional parking spaces in the centre of Morzine which will no doubt attract more weekend warriors to the slopes. We are excited about this development as during school holidays the slopes can get busy and with this new lift system in Morzine and Avoriaz it will spread tourists out across the region.
Below is a video courtesy of Mountain Heaven showing a visual representation of what the new lift system will look like before it is built.
Prepare yourself for the Mont Blanc rally 2018 if you are in the area! An event not to miss and one of the biggest days of the year for the region named after the highest mountain in Europe west of the Russian Caucasus peaks.
The dates of the rally: From September 7th, 2018 to September 8th, 2018.
Morzine will be hosting a key stage of the rally therefore set your shutter speed to max to catch a photo of these fast rally cars racing around the mountains.
Let’s face it, the snowboard industry has thousands of options when it comes to buying goggles but how do you know which ones are really the best? You need a good pair of goggles when you have a snowboard lesson in morzine or if you are just cruising around the resorts of Avoriaz. If you can’t see correctly then its like being partially blind but your trying to hurl yourself down a mountain learning new techniques and tricks so it is important, trust.
Whitelines Snowboarding which is now dedicated to providing users with updated, accurate and honest information regarding all equipment in the snowboard industry has put together a very interesting article that compares and provides you with great information on which goggles are a must buy for 2018/19.
Interested? Take a look at the full article here.
