The
factors that make a resort a reliable resort for ski are; altitude,
positioning of slopes, nature of slopes, and local environmental
climate.
Chatel is
a reliable resort for ski because in satisfies each of these criteria.
The slopes are
generally North facing so they get much less direct sun on them and
therefore they tend to keep better. Because Chatel is a living and
working farming community you will find the pistes of Chatel tend to be
on pasture land, which means that Chatel only needs a few inches of snow
to enable good skiing unlike higher resorts that require much deeper
snow in order to cover the harsh rocky environment they have. Finally
being between Lake Geneva and Mount Blanc, when the weather is North
westerley then Chatel often gets a good depth of snow making it have one
of the best snow records in the Alps. The weather experts of Snow
forecast argue that when it snows you get much more snow at 2000 to 1600
metres than higher up. Something to do with temperature altitude and
weight of snow particles. I However at higher altitudes it snows more
often though you get higher winds that can sometimes take the snow off
and the mountain.
