2008 to 2009 Season
Welcome to Chalet Cascade, a large wooden chalet on the edge of Chatel, a charming village in the heart of the huge Portes du Soleil ski area.
A fantastic base for winter and summer holidays with its vast amount of skiing and great summer alpine activities. With just one lift pass you can ski 12 different resorts in France and Switzerland.
Chatel a picturesque alpine village is now one of the top resorts with its traditional ambience and its position guaranteeing an outstanding variety of pistes for skiers and boarders of all abilities.
Only 1½ hours from Geneva airport and eight hours drive from Calais make it one of the most accessible resorts even for a weekend.

Summary

• Winter and summer holidays in Chatel a traditional alpine village bordering Switzerland
• Part of the huge Portes du Soleil ski area
• Two countries on one ski lift pass
• Very spacious newly built chalet sleeping up to 16
• Catered or self catering
• Situated by the river Dranse
• Fantastic summer activities
• Only one hour from Geneva airport and eight hours from Calais

Chatel is a traditional Savoiard Village at the head of the Abondonce Valley in the Haute Savoie area of the French Alpes. Just a stones throw away from Switzerland Chatel offers skiing in the largest cross-border ski area in the world. France in the morning, Switzerland in the afternoon; you are free to venture off into the wilds.
In Chatel you will find everything the perfect village resort has to offer.
A lively village centre, perfectly preserved mountain architecture and skiing in vast unspoilt spaces of the Portes du Soleil.

Snow Cover
Châtel's geographical situation, to the far north of the French Alps, combined with the influence of nearby Lake Geneva, gives the resort its own microclimate usually ensuring that the snow does not melt. However, to counter nature's whims, the Ski-Slope Department employs seven snowmakers making artificial snow. Equipment: 76 snowmaking points and 52 snowmakers spread all over the domain but concentrating on the most susceptible areas. In 2000, 14 snowmakers were at work in the Super-Châtel sector and 20 in Linga.