How's Les Gets/Morzine for snowboarding?

[V8 Stang]

So just got back from a week of mountain biking in Morzine which was fantastic!

Im now getting into booking my winter holiday of a week's snowboarding.


Am now thinking of heading back to the Morzine area (to see it in winter), found a nice apartment in the centre of Les Gets which looks ideal.

Will be driving there, over 2 days. In the MG4, so plenty of EV stops! Have Michelin cross climate 4's which are snow rated.


However wondering from anyone who has been:

How busy does it get? will be going 1st week of Feb.
Ive been to St Anton a few times. Whilst I loved the place, it was always soo busy, and the pistes were destroyed by lunch time.
And I hate moguls!

Are the runs generally nice and wide? with minimal flat area's and cat tracks?
I really hate narrow cat tracks, especially when full of skiers!


How easy was it to navigate between the different area's? easy to get from Les Gets to Morzine/Avoriaz side on the lifts?

Was it overall a good place for skiing/boarding?


I assume it generally gets good snow?

Cheers

[PushedDover]

I've been to Morzine / Montriond / Les Gets a few times in the last few years, but the 'Skiing' Thread will bring you a far more educated answer.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
and see / waith for the 2027 thread to pop up

For me, intermediate snowboarder, travelling with Skiers (mixed) I had a fine time.
I doubt you need to worry much about the Cross Climates - the last few times I have been amazed at the height of the snow line above the villages.

[b14]

I've skied loads there over the years, basing at both Les Gets and Morzine. My sister lives in Morzine, which helps!

Overall, the runs are wide generally, and only the blacks get lumpy - the reds and the blues stay pretty flat throughout. There aren't any majorly long runs anywhere in resort but there's some good quality and not much too narrow. The only real flat bit that you might need to navigate is the interchange from Les Gets to Morzine - off the Chavannes you need to get to a lift called Folliet du Golf and that is a pretty flat green that is pain for borders. But after that, nothing flat really that you absolutely need to navigate. Very few cat tracks that you need to take, on the whole.

Getting between Les Gets and Morzine is easy, one run and one lift takes you from Les Gets into Morzine. But getting across to Avoriaz involves skiing down into Morzine (Piste B) then shlepping across the town (15 min walk) to the Super Morzine, which takes you up to some runs that lead into Avoriaz. If you started in Les Gets you'd be at least 90 mins before you were in Avoriaz proper. But you can drive from Les Gets to the Prodain lift (circa 15 mins) which takes you directly up into Avoriaz (with a nice big car park), and go from there perhaps, rather than skiing over.

It's not the world's no.1 skiing / boarding but it is a large area that has something for everyone.

[JQ]

V8 Stang said:

So just got back from a week of mountain biking in Morzine which was fantastic!

Im now getting into booking my winter holiday of a week's snowboarding.


Am now thinking of heading back to the Morzine area (to see it in winter), found a nice apartment in the centre of Les Gets which looks ideal.

Will be driving there, over 2 days. In the MG4, so plenty of EV stops! Have Michelin cross climate 4's which are snow rated.


However wondering from anyone who has been:

How busy does it get? will be going 1st week of Feb.
Ive been to St Anton a few times. Whilst I loved the place, it was always soo busy, and the pistes were destroyed by lunch time.
And I hate moguls!

Are the runs generally nice and wide? with minimal flat area's and cat tracks?
I really hate narrow cat tracks, especially when full of skiers!


How easy was it to navigate between the different area's? easy to get from Les Gets to Morzine/Avoriaz side on the lifts?

Was it overall a good place for skiing/boarding?


I assume it generally gets good snow?

Cheers

It's a great place, we've been to Morzine for the last 12 years with the family.

Directly answering some of your questions -

Pistes are good all day and we've never found it too busy despite always going in half term. Obviously the main lifts will be busy at 9am and around lunchtime, but once you're up in the mountains it's fine. We either start the day before ski schools meet or after.

Lots of decent runs and limited cat tracks.

Navigating - essentially Morzine sits in the middle of Les Get and Avoriaz. As such, from Les Gets it's easy to get to Morzine, but a bit of a trek to get to Avoriaz, whereas from Morzine it's easy to get to both (on skis/boards). However, with a car in Les Gets you can drive to Ardent (huge car park) and get a bubble up to Avoriaz, but you're then just skiing Avoriaz and you need to get to the car park early.

Good snow - this year was amazing and we were skiing deep powder everywhere, however 2025 and 2024 were shocking (as were most surrounding resorts) and we spent almost the entire weeks in Avoriaz. That's the fantastic thing about PdS, Avoriaz will always have snow and it's a huge area. Flip side, when the snow is poor in Morzine & Les Gets, Avoriaz gets very busy, however it's easy to head over into Switzerland where it's much quieter.

We've stayed in Les Gets in the summer and it's a great place, but for the winter we've always preferred Morzine as it's much easier to get to all the various parts of PdS.

I also ski in Austria every year and one thing you'll need to get used to is French lift infrastruture is poor in comparison to Austrian, but that's a French thing, not a Les Gets thing.

If you do end up in Les Gets make sure you try Mont Chery, it's a little gem out the back of the resort which is always quiet - accessed via a land train from the centre of the resort. Another hidden gem is Roc d'Enfer, but you'll need to drive there, this year we were skiing untouched knee deep powder all day. And again always quiet, as it's difficult to access without a car.

[//j17]

b14 said:

Getting between Les Gets and Morzine is easy, one run and one lift takes you from Les Gets into Morzine. But getting across to Avoriaz involves skiing down into Morzine (Piste B) then shlepping across the town (15 min walk) to the Super Morzine, which takes you up to some runs that lead into Avoriaz. If you started in Les Gets you'd be at least 90 mins before you were in Avoriaz proper. But you can drive from Les Gets to the Prodain lift (circa 15 mins) which takes you directly up into Avoriaz (with a nice big car park), and go from there perhaps, rather than skiing over.

15 min from the bottom of the Pleney to the S-M, only if you grab a quick pint en route. 10 min in ski boots/quicker for a boarder.

Of course an even better option is to only walk 60 seconds from the bototm of the Pleney, then jump a bus to either Ardant or Prodains as the S-M run is bording on skis and just an edge waiting to catch the second a boarder's attention wanders. My normal accomodation in Morzine's a 2 minute walk from the S-M and we still often catch the bus to Prodains as you're into more fun skiing quicker.

[V8 Stang]

Thanks guys, you have sold me! I have booked the apartment in Les Gets, but will keep an eye on if something better becomes available in morzine.

It will be interesting to try and find the MTB trails ive just ridden!

And these lovely views with snow!

[JQ]

The jump park above Les Gets disappears in the winter, but the jumps through the trees below it remain - my kids love skiing the jumps they’ve done on the bikes.