He talks about another mountain restaurant where his group lingered until 1 a.m. over raclette and white wine and then skied home in the moonlight. For the most adventurous, he found miles of untracked powder and several glades with nicely spaced trees. And he led them to the wall, a fierce drop-off at Chavenette, where you could look first and then decide whether to download. A reference to hundreds of lifts prompts recall of a flap going on among lift companies in the Four Valleys, another huge area in Switzerland. They are arguing over how the companies should divvy up the revenue.
Some background is needed here.
I remember riding a chair several years ago with the general manager of one of the lift companies in the Three Valleys of France. He was responsible for some 40 of the region's 200 lifts. Over here we're in the transportation business, of moving skiers up the mountain. Financial savvy on the docket For 10 years, each of four companies in the Four Valleys has kept the money that was shoved through their ticket windows. But Televerbier and Tele-Thyon don't think that's fair and does not reward them properly for the size of investment and the amount of usage.