5th October 2008
Mont Chevreuil is an abandoned ski station near to Château-d’Oex and was once on the same lift pass. The lift runs up from Rossiniere, or used to as it’s not run all the time I’ve lived here despite what some UK ski web sites appear to think according to their “in depth” guides to Château-d’Oex. Anyway, we had left the car in the Col des Mosses at La Lecherette and walked in to Mont Chevreuil from there. It’s a great time of year for walking and the conditions alter so much, earlier in the week I was in shirtsleeves enjoying the sunshine in Kandersteg and today we’re in early season snow. We’d thrown snow chains and snow shoes into the car as a precaution but didn’t really need them. You could have snow shoed at the top and the higher parts of the descent would have been fun but there’s not enough snow yet to need this kind of kit.
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19th November 2006
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First thing this morning it was misty at home with signs the sun would break through, the local webcams seemed to confirm it might be a nice day. But, by the time we arrived at La Lecherette the cloud had rolled in and there was a light rain. The plan was to walk out of La Lecherette and climb up to the Monts Chevreuils. Monts Chevreuils is an abandoned ski station, the base is in Les Moulins on the Château-d’Œx/Bulle road. In fact it was part of the Château-d’Œx and on the same lift pass but not actually linked. It consisted of a single very long drag lift rising from 890m at Les Moulins to the summit of Monts Chevreuils at 1662m, the lift must have been quite a ride!
The top lifts of Château-d’Œx are visible in the above photograph on the far left side.
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23rd October 2006
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There was some fantastic autumn weather over the weekend so we went up to the col des Mosses for a walk. The route was fairly simple, to leave La Lécherette and walk up on side of the pass before crossing at Les Mosses and climbing up to the top of the La Lécherette ski station and descending to the village.
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Mont Chevreuil is an abandoned ski station near to Château-d’Oex and was once on the same lift pass. The lift runs up from Rossiniere, or used to as it’s not run all the time I’ve lived here despite what some UK ski web sites appear to think according to their “in depth” guides to Château-d’Oex. Anyway, we had left the car in the Col des Mosses at La Lecherette and walked in to Mont Chevreuil from there. It’s a great time of year for walking and the conditions alter so much, earlier in the week I was in shirtsleeves enjoying the sunshine in Kandersteg and today we’re in early season snow. We’d thrown snow chains and snow shoes into the car as a precaution but didn’t really need them. You could have snow shoed at the top and the higher parts of the descent would have been fun but there’s not enough snow yet to need this kind of kit.
