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Chalet la Bas Ski, Board And Mountain Bike Chalet, Les Arcs, France.

Catered ski chalet offering great priced accommodation and high levels of friendly service to our guests

Framed, signed and on display at CLB.Come and visit!
26/02/2025

Framed, signed and on display at CLB.
Come and visit!

This week has been a scheduled week off, but we've not be idle.Connie has been knitting gloves, hats and headbands non s...
13/02/2025

This week has been a scheduled week off, but we've not be idle.
Connie has been knitting gloves, hats and headbands non stop and I've finished a painting.

From next week we have a pretty full schedule until the end of March, but there are a few gaps.

February 23rd to March 2nd, 2 rooms for 4 guests.
£70 per guest per night

March 23rd to March 30th 1 room for 2 guests
March 30th to April 6th 4 rooms for 8 guests
£60 per guest per night
or £3200 for a whole chalet booking for up to 8 guests, that's just £420 per guest.

April 6th to April 13th 2 rooms for 4 guests
£70 per guest per night

You can stay any duration from a minimum stay of 3 nights
The price is for an en suite room and chalet board ( Breakfast, afternoon freshly baked cakes and refreshments, Pre dinner drinks, Evening meal with wine and beer).

And even better, you get to see my happy smiling face every day.
Or perhaps better, Connies!

Here's a translation of the official announcement made last night re the road closure.Contrary to earlier claims there ...
06/02/2025

Here's a translation of the official announcement made last night re the road closure.
Contrary to earlier claims there still remains some uncertainty.

The section of the RN90 where a landslide occurred on Saturday February 1 will be reopened to traffic by midday on Friday, at least in one lane, announced François Ravier, Prefect of Savoie, at a press conference at the Prefecture in Chambéry on Wednesday February 5. But two scenarios are still being studied. In the first, traffic would have to travel in two lanes in the downhill direction through the Ponserand tunnel, with a single, clear lane on the RN90 in the uphill direction. In the second case, traffic would flow normally, with two downhill lanes in the Ponserand tunnel and two clear lanes in the upbound direction.

40,000 vehicles expected in Tarentaise by Friday

The uncertainty that remains is linked to the work in progress, explained François Ravier. "The work must be carried out in conditions of safety that in no way endangers the lives of those working to correct the consequences of the rockslide", he added. Two factors will be decisive in the decision to reopen on one or two lanes: "The ability to renovate the rockfall protection screen and the consequences on the roadway of the mining of the rocks that have fallen." The uncertainty linked to the consequences on the roadway will be lifted "tomorrow (Thursday)", assured the prefect. "The other is still in abeyance", he added. A further press briefing will be held this Thursday evening.

Since the landslide, traffic in the Tarentaise region has been severely disrupted. Traffic is now flowing in both directions through the Ponserand tunnel, usually reserved for downhill traffic. The reopening of the tunnel is important not only for the many Savoyards who work in the area, but also because this weekend is the first of the February school holiday season. This Friday in the Tarentaise, 22,000 vehicles are expected on the way up, 18,000 on the way down. "All Tarentaise resorts will be accessible this weekend", assured the prefect, who also confirmed that emergency accommodation would be available from Friday evening.

Great news, but not as yet confirmed by the Prefecure de Savoie.There has just been an announcement that the N90 will b...
05/02/2025

Great news, but not as yet confirmed by the Prefecure de Savoie.
There has just been an announcement that the N90 will be reopened on Friday Saturday night.

There has been a rockslide just outside of Moutiers and this has damaged and closed one side of the motorway into the va...
03/02/2025

There has been a rockslide just outside of Moutiers and this has damaged and closed one side of the motorway into the valley.

There is no way that this will be cleared and the motorway reopened by the time the school holidays begin.

A geological assessment of the area from where the rocks have fallen needs to take place and this area then needs to be made safe. That is a very big job.

If you can avoid coming into or leaving the Tarentaise Valley on any Saturday in February do so.
The access to the 3 Valleys, La Plagne, Les Arcs, La Rosiere, Sainte Foy or Tiges/Val d'Isere is severely compromised by the road closure .

Some travellers took over 15 hours to get from Geneva to Val d'Isere last Saturday.
The average time to get through the only access road open, the Ponserand Tunnel took 8 hours and more.
Many departing travellers missed their flights as transfer buses could not get through or return to make pick ups.

The flow through the tunnel is limited to 50kmph and 800 to 1000 vehicles an hour.

There were tailbacks of up to 10,000 vehicles, stretching almost as far as Chambery!!!

An emergency was declared and sports hall and community halls provided beds to marooned travellers.

Our Sunday arrivals were delayed by over 2 hours in the 10km long queue yesterday.

If you are here already, travel at night to get out or leave very early in the morning.

Coming in, try to arrive through Friday night or on Sunday, but still expect significant hold ups.

Weekday travel will be affected, but less so.

If you can leave your car in Albertville and travel by train, do so. Train services are unaffected.

Train travel from Geneva airport via a change Chambery is unaffected. Journey time around 3 hours 30 mins to Bourg-Saint-Maurice.

Amazingly no-one was killed by the rockfall. Two cars were damaged.

More Info as we get it.

Full Team Belfast.
31/01/2025

Full Team Belfast.

What a great photo of Patrick, part of the Team Belfast, currently at CLB.Great conditions in Les Arcs this week.And we...
30/01/2025

What a great photo of Patrick, part of the Team Belfast, currently at CLB.

Great conditions in Les Arcs this week.

And we have 2 rooms available the week commencing Sunday February 23rd.

Today's ski trip was over to Italy starting in La Rosiere.Tons of great skiing on well groomed Italian pistes, a pizza l...
24/01/2025

Today's ski trip was over to Italy starting in La Rosiere.
Tons of great skiing on well groomed Italian pistes, a pizza lunch, excellent coffee and a few Genepi to fortify the spirit.

All that and back to us by 5pm in time for a cuppa and freshly baked cakes.

A shower, shave, shampoo.....and ready for tonight's fayre, Creamed Avocado with Smoked Salmon, Duck a l'Orange with Gratin Dauphinoise, lashings of wine and Tarte Tatin to finish them off.

Life's hard!

Well, the guys this week are doing a ski safari with a different ski area visited each day.Yesterday they chose the 3 ...
23/01/2025

Well, the guys this week are doing a ski safari with a different ski area visited each day.

Yesterday they chose the 3 Valleys and enjoyed superb conditions, plus afternoon sunshine. Today it's Tignes and they struck gold again.
Where tomorrow? They'll choose over dinner tonight.
That's the bonus of CLB, we have over 2000km of piste spread over 6 ski areas within a 35 minute mountain mini road trip from our door.

Look at the Hole in the Needle mountain.
It's big enough to take a bus through. Not that you could, it's at 2700m and no roads.

As if we need it, but this week is without guests and we are relaxing.The snow conditions are very good after a consider...
13/01/2025

As if we need it, but this week is without guests and we are relaxing.
The snow conditions are very good after a considerable dump last week. The forecast is showing sunshine for the next 7 days.
We will enjoy it.

Here's a lovely photograph of the French, Swiss and Italian Alps on take off from Geneva airport. Mont Blanc is in the centre.
Lake Geneva has the cloud cover.

We took our guests on the 25 minute trip up to Sainte Foy ski area today.The journey goes along the Isere river valley....
31/12/2024

We took our guests on the 25 minute trip up to Sainte Foy ski area today.
The journey goes along the Isere river valley. It's a special microclimate in the section between Seez to just past Viclaire.
The sun doesn't shine there for almost 3 months and the temperature is pretty much always well below zero. In these cold conditions the river, The Isere, is almost warm at around 4c, so a sort of cold steam rises from it and condenses into a river cloud that hovers about 30 to 50 metres above the valley floor.
This cloud then starts to create its own special snow-frost that falls and attaches to the trees creating a magical winter wonderland.
These conditions can persist in this little polar spot for weeks.
It really looks special.
You can see in the pics that it's only the valley floor trees affected.
As we entered the area the temperature dropped form +5 to - 3 in just a few hundred metres.
The cloud can disappear during day and then form again during the night.

Here we go!260 days off and including a trip around the world ( it's round , I tell you, it's round).Now it's back to wo...
29/12/2024

Here we go!
260 days off and including a trip around the world ( it's round , I tell you, it's round).

Now it's back to work for the next 105 days, we'll it's back to work for Connie, I'll take it easy until caught out.

Our first guests arrive this evening, I'm off to Geneva to meet them.

The rooms are ready and awaiting the fun to start.

Rumour has it that I might even be pleasant this season!!!

Come and join us, we have a few spare weeks left to fill.

Happy Christmas to all our followers from Steve and Connie The beautiful festive views from the chalet bedrooms.60cm ...
24/12/2024

Happy Christmas to all our followers from Steve and Connie

The beautiful festive views from the chalet bedrooms.

60cm of snow down here and double that on the mountain.
Perfect conditions for Christmas and New Year.

Enjoy your holidays!

It snowed down here at valley level. All set for a White Christmas.However, the drive needed clearing and the car diggin...
23/12/2024

It snowed down here at valley level. All set for a White Christmas.
However, the drive needed clearing and the car digging out.
I politely asked Connie of she would do it and she said " no, my dear sweetheart! Well, that what I think she said as she pushed me towards the snow shovel.

Lucky the snow was dry powder, so light and easy to move. The village roads are cleared by neighbours with a snow Plough, employed by the local council.
The main road is cleared every 15 minutes by the regional government ploughs.

So, all being easy ( not) our daughter Stef and Geoff decided they wanted to go to Sainte Foy ski area to enjoy the powder conditions. Normally it takes 25 minutes but today, due to the roads, it took an hour.

Here's the photos of our trip and when we got back I had to clear the driveway yet again.
And it's still coming down.

Will this be Snowmageddon 2?

I christened my Aussie Drover hat to the snow of the Alps
Purchased in the hot sunshine of Queensland and now suffering a real winter.

We went up to Val d'Isere yesterday, very, very cold! Connie wanted to see the Christmas shops!On the mountain it was ...
21/12/2024

We went up to Val d'Isere yesterday, very, very cold! Connie wanted to see the Christmas shops!

On the mountain it was minus 20, not including wind chill. Minus 6 in the town.

The driving , from just before Tignes Dam was on hard packed snow and black ice covered with a top dusting of loose powder snow. Hair raising!

Always a pleasure to see the spectacular Val d'Isere scenery, particulary the avalalanche prone drive up, but Connies verdict on the shopping was a thumbs down.

Here's a tour of our Christmas decoration, mostly hand made by Connie.I did the tree and I suppose most of the presents...
19/12/2024

Here's a tour of our Christmas decoration, mostly hand made by Connie.
I did the tree and I suppose most of the presents underneath are for me!

Last year I was voted second best chalet host by our guests..... and second best chalet chef!!!!

Here's a magical picture from the top of the Aiguille Rouge at 3250m and looking over the Arc 2000 snowbowl towards Mont...
18/12/2024

Here's a magical picture from the top of the Aiguille Rouge at 3250m and looking over the Arc 2000 snowbowl towards Mont Blanc (4810m). You can see all of the lights of the various villages from the valley floor at 800m up to the high altitude Arc 2000m and over to La Rosiere at 1800m
A full moon tonight.

CLB in full Christmas mode. The bar is now open, Pelforth Blonde on draught this week.Pistes open, snow good all the w...
18/12/2024

CLB in full Christmas mode. The bar is now open, Pelforth Blonde on draught this week.
Pistes open, snow good all the way from the top at 3200m down to 1600m.
Current snow line about 900m, just above us. More coming tomorrow!

We are having a family Christmas this year, for the first time in donkeys years.

Our first guests arrive December 29th, a full chalet.

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Ebor Falls, upper section

CLB on tour, extra. We had an encounter with a UFO over the desert. Connie hoped that I was about to be abducted and experimented upon to change me for the better. The aliens thought it would be a challenge so, breath out dear followers, I will be the same,warm,friendly chalet host, next season.

Cattle stampede at the top of our drive! Well, perhaps not a stampede but a race to fresh green pastures and the beginning of their slow 4 month climb up the mountains for the summer. They will be back at the end of October and greeted by thousands in their annual procession through Bourg St Maurice.

Chalet la Bas went to the Brasserie du Petit San Bernard bar and brewery tonight for a disco.......... However due to age limitations we left before it got going!

Dance routine practice at CLB. Problem is they are practicing above my bedroom- no sleep tonight.

Sheffield girls week. Here's some of the team getting the party going on the last funicular down (they almost missed it as they stayed too long partying and dancing in the aprés at Folie Douce Arc 1800)

Team CLB on the piste.

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