{"id":582,"date":"2014-12-29T16:20:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T16:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2014-12-29T16:20:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T16:20:52","slug":"snow-vail-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/12\/snow-vail-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow covers ski resorts on both sides of the Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might have read about the great snowfall in Europe this weekend (and if you didn&#8217;t, you should be checking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Chaletline?ref=hl\">our Facebook page<\/a>!).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fresh snow in Europe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Resorts received between 30cm and 50cm of fresh snow and leaves the slopes in much better shape than last week and looking set for the season at last.<\/p>\n<p>This was Tignes on Saturday morning:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-583\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tig.jpg\" alt=\"tignes dec 2014\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tig.jpg 640w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tig-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tig-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tig-190x190.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tig-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/tig-335x335.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sometimes you can get too much snow&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately there was so much snow in some places that some motorists ended up stuck on the motorways and roads, as cars (<a title=\"If you\u2019re driving to the Alps, you need snowchains\u2026!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/01\/if-youre-driving-to-the-alps-you-need-snowchains\/\">without snowchains!<\/a>) slipped and slid and blocked the roads.<\/p>\n<p>Nightmare journeys, including 11 hours from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/val-d-isere\">Val d&#8217;Isere<\/a> to Bourg st Maurice and 8 hours from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/meribel\">Meribel <\/a>to Moutiers were recorded.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-584\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/traffic.jpg\" alt=\"traffic alps\" width=\"460\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/traffic.jpg 460w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/traffic-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/traffic-190x118.jpg 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/traffic-60x37.jpg 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/traffic-400x249.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some holidaymakers never reached resort on Saturday and had to stay in local or temporary accommodation. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/france\/11314946\/Chaos-in-the-Alps-as-massive-snowfall-traps-15000-cars.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Daily Telegraph<\/a> reported that 15,000 cars were trapped overnight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Over 1.5 metres in Vail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, over in the States, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/vail\">Vail ski resort<\/a> has recorded more than 1.5 metres of fresh snow in the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-585\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/vail.png\" alt=\"vail ski resort\" width=\"599\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/vail.png 599w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/vail-300x269.png 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/vail-190x170.png 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/vail-60x53.png 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/vail-372x335.png 372w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ski Deals from Chaletline<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope for more of the white stuff and a vintage season.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to get out there and enjoy it yourself, then check our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/late.php\">Late Deals page<\/a> or contact the Chaletline team on 01822 617761.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/12\/snow-vail-france\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/vail-190x170.png);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/vail-190x170.png<\/a><p>You might have read about the great snowfall in Europe this weekend (and if you didn&#8217;t, you should be checking our Facebook page!). Fresh snow in Europe Resorts received between 30cm and 50cm of fresh snow and leaves the slopes &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/12\/snow-vail-france\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,131,140],"tags":[29,228,118,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}