I went to Saas Fee in early December last year when there was no snow anywhere in France. Fed up of drinking beer in Chamonix we headed over to Saas Fee where there was snow everywhere! You could even ride back down to the resort courtesy of some brilliant snow cannons. We even got in some powder turns which wasn't a bad thing seeing as people in other resorts where pretty much grounded.

Saas Fee snowpark is very well maintained and is world class. It is also open during the summer and autumn, the glacier being host to a snowpark which is often the place for pre-season sessions and photoshoots.

The actual town is just plain weird. It looks like the place Willy Wonkas Umpa Lumpas live. No cars are allowed so you have to leave your vehicles in a massive multi storey just at the entrance to the town. Saas Fee is all tiny little roads and chocolate box houses. Send an American tourist here and the place would resound to things like 'neat', 'quaint' and 'like is this how swiss people like really live?' It's a cool place although its quaintness can get on your nerves when struggling to the lifts with all your kit jumping out the way of speeding electric vans the size of tonka trucks. Well worth checking out I reckon.



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