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Everyone to the igloos!

Updating : 12/01/2006

 When we were children we all dreamt about them, we even tried to build some with our own hands, our own mittens and they always fell apart a good while before the thaw. It must be said that there is a technique as for every form of architecture. But what a treat, whenever we succeed in making one or if someone has built it for you, to spend a night of silence in the snowy mountains in close contact with nature.
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As already mentioned right here, Snowshoe hikes are quite trendy, and one week trips or week ends, to discover nature, forest, animals' tracks, etc. are being proposed in increasing numbers. Even trendier, are nights spent in an igloo. On arrival, you spend the first night in the hotel and you leave the next morning with snowshoes, sealskins, cross-country skis and a most appropriate picnic ("beaufort" and "reblochon" cheeses, cooked pork meat, fruits...) then, in the evening you join the igloo to spend the night.

 

 

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Some of the tours even propose that the participant cut their own snow blocks and also teach them how to give the igloo the right curve to obtain a lovely little round house and which above all, does not fall in on its occupiers! Something no-one could do themselves without the correct technique!

 

With a good self-pumping air-mattress and a special sleeping bag for extremely cold temperatures (that you can also hire), we are all set. Then we only have to enjoy the exceptional night surrounded by the forest's whispers and the animal noises.

 

 

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Everyone contributes to preparing dinner and breakfast in a convivial atmosphere and you obviously have to leave your requirements for comfort down in the valley. Otherwise, this kind of experience is open to everyone and to children from 12 years old, but some trips propose the same nature discovery trip on snowshoes, with a night spent in a mountain refuge (a permanent structure with a stove or even a central heating).

 

There are some who say, that for lovers, the experience is just as good as a night in a palace with a King-size bed. They're not wrong!

Practical

The "Cairn" association proposes snowshoe week-ends and nights in an Igloo from "Carroz d'Arâches". The snow house is to be built on your own. You go from one place to another by snowshoes.

139 euros per person.

Tel. : 04 50 34 48 03

http://www.cairn-fr.com/

http://www.savoiehautesavoie.com/

 

At "Les Deux Alpes" we reach the "Bergerie Kanata", Sylvain and Stephan's domain, by foot or snowshoes to have dinner at 2100m.

 

For 22 euros you can get hot wine, salad, "tartiflette", (cooked with melted cheese) dessert, "génépi" (local liqueur) and ¼litre of wine.  You can spend the night in one of the 9 igloos already built (80 euros per night breakfast and sleeping equipment included).


info : 06 12 29 49 03.


Nights in igloo are possible from December to end of March or sometimes April, depending of course on the weather forecasts.

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