2006 02 18 - Moléson
18th February 2006
As it’s holiday time I decided to go to one of the local stations today, I’d thought about going to Charmey but Moléson were holding the Move and Ride so I’d thought I’d take a look at that.
It’s been snowing and pretty windy for a few days but the temperatures have been relatively high, 6′c as I left home, so a lot of the snow that’s fallen is wet and heavy.
This picture tells the story really.
Lower down, around Lac Gruyère in fact, the snow’s melted and the ice on the lake has melted although it’s too far on this photo’ to see that. But you can see where the wind has stripped some of the snow off the hillside.
That’s the village of Moléson although it’s mostly a collection of holiday cottages
Really Moléson only has 4 lifts, the rather flash funicular above, two t-bars and a téléphérique to the highest point, sadly the téléphérique wasn’t operating today due to high wind. There’s only one run from the top of it but it’s long steep black mostly unprepared and without doubt the best run in the station.
In the end I didn’t see much of the Move and Ride, although I’ve worked there’s the equivalent of a fun run event and I reckon I ought to have a go at it next year 
Mostly it’s been overcast all day with some breaks in the cloud, one of which occurred just as I was going home, this is from the hill outside our village looking back at the pre-alpes.
Some more photo’s in the gallery here.
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