in Saint-Colomban-des-Villards, in Savoie, free snowboarding might not survive the elections | EUROtoday

His cheeky perspective, his Savoyard beret and his rubber boots are a part of the panorama, just like the neo-Gothic church devoted to an evangelizing monk, or the lime tree labeled as a outstanding tree for its 5 centuries of shade. In Saint-Colomban-des-Villards (Savoie), Adrien Maurino is simply too used to mountain pastures for the small village grocery retailer the place he swallows his espresso croissant, Friday February 27, to include his voice.

Even on essentially the most delicate topic right here, the farmer goes straight. “Free skiing on our slopes is a great idea. I didn’t believe it at first, but we allow children who would never have skied to learn and the money saved on packages is spent in the village, he rejoices. You just have to open your eyes to realize it. » Grégory Le Goff, alias “the grocer”, confirms. He says to himself “rather satisfied with his season”marked by “a new clientele who comes from the valley on Wednesdays and weekends to ski on our small slopes”.

Alpine snowboarding is the large controversy on this city positioned at an altitude of 1,150 meters, within the Villards valley, a stone’s throw from the Col du Glandon (1,922 meters); the theme round which the municipal marketing campaign and extra broadly native politics has been structured for half a century. It can also be the dividing line between the 150 villagers. At a time when local weather change is profoundly altering winters, the city is hesitating between reconnecting with the Sybelles space, the fourth ski space in France, to which the village offered entry from 2003 to 2025 by ski lifts, at present closed attributable to lack of means to take care of them, or stick with its three free newbie slopes, pushing in the direction of one other growth.

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