I need to situate the resort. It's located in Switzerland, the French part. Because as you know, Switzerland is a country of only 7 million people and where there is 4 officials languages, the swiss german which is a dialect of german, the French, the Italian, and the romanche which is a mix of the 3 languages, but it's only spoken by 3% of the population, it's always funny when I travel, then I have to speak English with a swiss from the Italian or from the german part.
Well Les Crosets is part of Les Portes du Soleil, one of the biggest resort in the Alps, you got 900 km of slopes and they are all linked. It's exceptional to be in France for example and to cross the border by the slopes to go to Switzerland. Avoriaz is a part of it too for the connoisseurs, land of Nicolas Droz (appears in the video gangs forum).
For those who saw
my pictures of Bear Mountain (day 3rd of April) the guys that I shot are from Les Crosets. They are all members of The 10k crew (the disclosure), they are all dedicated to snowboarding, and they start producing there own videos (check soon on
snowboard-revolution.com )
In this month of April, snow condition is pretty good, the good amount of snow of this winter allowed the shapers to build a huge hip. The riders have been shredding the monster all day long.
I would say that Les Crosets is one of the best park in the French part, with many kicks of all sizes and different jibs. Les Crosets is almost home town of Romain de MARCHI, Jules Reymond, and Trevor Andrew spent one full winter here improving new tricks on the biggest kick of the park (25 meters of flat). Les Crosets on a good powder day will give you your dose of backcountry, because the terrain is just perfect for it.