Tag: where to ski near geneva
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Sur la piste: Skiing the French Alps
We should really go somewhere new. We keep meaning to make plans. To explore new territory. To branch out. But we can’t seem to stay away from Chamonix-Mont Blanc. The obsession began Christmas 2014. Before Chamonix I had never skied on a mountain that required a practically vertical gondola to get there. (Every place I had skied…
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2015 Travel moment: Skiing Gstaad
Early one morning last winter we took the train to Gstaad. It was cold and dark. The train was quiet, but full. It would be a three-hour ride and I was lugging 10 pounds of ski equipment. I wasn’t excited. I was cranky. But as the train chugged higher into the mountains, the…