{"id":96749,"date":"2025-12-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petit-montagnard.fr\/?p=96749"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:12:12","slug":"we-havent-seen-this-for-a-long-time-the-seizures-open-the-winter-ball-2025-2026-with-a-magical-pre-opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petit-montagnard.fr\/en\/on-a-pas-vu-ca-depuis-longtemps-les-saisies-ouvrent-le-bal-de-lhiver-2025-2026-avec-une-pre-ouverture-qui-sannonce-magique\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abWe haven't seen anything like this for a long time\u00bb: Les Saisies kicks off the 2025-2026 winter season with a magical pre-opening ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Before opening non-stop from 13 December to 11 April, the Savoyard resort of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lessaisies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Foreclosures<\/a> This weekend (6-7 December), the pre-opening event is reminiscent of the great winters of yesteryear, with an area that is already largely skiable and a very \u00abearly season\u00bb atmosphere where excitement mingles with surprise at so much snow.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">December has barely begun and the resort of Les Saisies is already living in a picture-postcard setting. Nearly a metre of fresh snow fell at the end of November, covering the fir forests and slopes of the Beaufortain in a dense, luminous white. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u00abWinter looks set to be as good as or better than last year, with occupancy rates already on the up\u00bb.\u00bb <\/em>Rapha\u00ebl Barnasson, Deputy Director of the Tourist Office, points out in a press release. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/petit-montagnard.fr\/en\/winter-2025-2026-opening-dates-for-ski-resorts-in-france\/\">Winter 2025-2026: opening dates for ski resorts in France<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This trend is confirmed both in the accommodation sector and on the snow front, where there has even been an increase of more than five points over the pre-season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the ski area, the piste team didn't waste a minute. <em>\u00abWe've been on the skis for several days now preparing for a great pre-opening event\u00bb.\u00bb<\/em> explains Micha\u00ebl Tessard, Director of Ski Areas, who insists on this early winter <em>\u00ablike we haven't seen in a long time\u00bb. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The figures bear him out: 80 centimetres of snow already measured at the bottom of the resort, more than a metre at the summit, and a Nordic area that was able to open 52 kilometres of pistes from 11 November. A sure sign that the season is shaping up to be exceptional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A single package at \u20ac25 <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To give everyone a chance to get back in touch with the pleasures of the slopes, the resort is offering a single pass for 25 euros a day, a rarity in Savoie, valid only for this pre-opening period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A number of lifts are accessible, including the Bisanne, Covetan, Chamois, L\u00e9gette and Chard du Beurre chairlifts, which open the way to great panoramic balconies facing Mont Blanc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/petit-montagnard.fr\/en\/the-best-family-ski-resorts-to-discover-this-winter\/\">The best family ski resorts to discover this winter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And because good things never come alone, this first weekend in December also coincides with the Trail de No\u00ebl, now in its fifteenth year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around a thousand participants are expected at the start on Sunday morning, ready to tackle 10 or 20 kilometres of groomed pistes or powder snow in a Great North atmosphere. A sporting way to celebrate the return of winter before the traditional Savoyard meal served at the finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Les Saisies, the season always starts a little earlier than elsewhere, but this year it's off to the best possible start. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before opening continuously from 13 December to 11 April, the Savoyard resort of Les Saisies is offering a pre-opening this weekend (6-7 December) that evokes the great winters of yesteryear, with an already largely accessible ski area and a very \u00abstart of the season\u00bb atmosphere where excitement blends with the surprise of such a quantity of<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":96756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[297],"tags":[327,569,298],"class_list":["post-96749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stations-de-ski","tag-alpes-du-nord","tag-les-saisies","tag-stations-de-ski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petit-montagnard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petit-montagnard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petit-montagnard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petit-montagnard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petit-montagnard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96749"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/petit-montagnard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96759,"href":"https:\/\/petit-montagnard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96749\/revisions\/96759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petit-montagnard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petit-montagnard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petit-montagnard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petit-montagnard.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}