We often wonder what it’s like for our clients to have a summer chalet holiday in La Tzoumaz, so we decided to find out for ourselves. Most of our visitors are not single families or groups of friends, but are three-generational families or two-family groups. To simulate these conditions, we recruited some friends whose children […]
Switzerland has amazing mountains. We love hiking the mountains, especially with my older children (who were aged 5 & 7 at the time of writing this piece). The question: How to transfer a love of hiking to children? Here are 10 ideas and 10 tips to get children hiking. Designing the hike 1) Go up! […]
From La Tzoumaz to the lake at the Col du Sanetsch We took our clients on a guided Harley Davidson tour from La Tzoumaz to Sanetsch. It was a beautiful, sunny day and the scenery was mind-blowing… the wiggly roads were jam-packed with hairpin bends and long winding corners… just what we were looking for! See the […]
There is a pleasing variety of options to get down (and up) the mountainside in La Tzoumaz. In summer, by far the most hilarious has to be the trottinette scooter. We climbed out of the telecabin at the top of the Savoleyres and were shown to our trottinettes by the lift operator. “It’ll be a bit steep […]
Full moon ski touring in November?? Are we crazy?? Yes a little!! So as most of the skiing world is aware, we had a nice dump of snow across the alps yesterday and today. Here in La Tzoumaz, the snowline was around the village centre, a little lower than our chalet. It was getting towards […]
From the age of 5, I used to dream about skiing for 51 weeks of the year. As a family, we’d look through our printed photos from the previous years, and shout excitedly at Franz Klammer and Pirmin Zurbriggen on Ski Sunday. We’d even sit in a line on the sofa and make chairlift-bumping-over-a-pylon noises […]
FATMAP is our favourite app for detailed off-piste / backcountry skiing data and informed decision-making. It is only useful if you know how to read and interpret the avalanche bulletin (see here and here), can work with slope angles and exposition to minimise the risk of provoking avalanches, are familiar with avoiding terrain traps and equipped […]
Inaugural Godille International Ski Week La Tzoumaz, Verbier’s 4-Valleys, Switzerland 16-20 March 2015 Day 1 Blog Entry My wife and I had ski lessons in our early days, but none in the 21st century so, we decided to sign up for the inaugural Godille International Ski Week in La Tzoumaz to gain some new experiences. […]
Weekend pre-season skiing in Verbier 2016 After the early snowfalls that swept across the Alps during November, we were delighted to share that the Verbier ski area officially opened on 11th November 2016: Weekends in November During December’s pre-season weekends, La Tzoumaz is connected to Verbier by high-speed telecabin (see here to read about how the connections were improved […]
Weekend pre-season skiing in Verbier 2015 After the huge snowfalls that swept across the Alps from the 21st November 2015, we were hungry for some on-piste carving and a spot of mogul-hopping so we spent the weekends pre-season skiing in Verbier. Weekends from the end of November During the season, La Tzoumaz is connected to Verbier by high-speed […]
Weekend pre-season skiing in Verbier 2014 After ski-touring on the autumn snow above La Tzoumaz, we were hungry for some on-piste carving and a spot of mogul-hopping so we spent the weekends pre-season skiing in Verbier. Early in December During the season, La Tzoumaz is connected to Verbier by high-speed telecabin (see here to read about how the […]