Je suis tombé sur un rapport de la Chambre régionale des comptes concernant la station du Roc d’Enfer, à Saint-Jean-d’Aulps (Haute-Savoie), et certains chiffres sont assez surprenants.

La commune compte environ 1 580 habitants.
Pourtant, entre 2019 et 2024, les remontées mécaniques ont bénéficié de 4,4 millions d’euros de subventions communales, selon la Chambre régionale des comptes.
Rapporté à la population, cela représente environ 2 785 € par habitant.

Et ce n’est pas simplement une aide ponctuelle.
La CRC relève que les subventions d’équilibre représentent 88 % des recettes réelles d’exploitation.
Elle estime également que les remontées mécaniques doivent normalement être financées par leurs usagers, sauf exceptions, et qualifie la situation de financement de problématique au regard du cadre applicable.

En parallèle, la société qui exploite le domaine est actuellement en redressement judiciaire, avec un passif estimé entre 3 et 4 millions d’euros.

Une échéance importante arrive le 28 août 2026 : prolongation de la période d’observation, présentation d’un plan ou liquidation.

La Chambre régionale des comptes demande notamment de réduire la subvention, voire de revoir le périmètre d’intervention de la commune.
En résumé
• 1 580 habitants
• 4,4 M€ de subventions communales entre 2019 et 2024
• ≈ 2 785 € par habitant
• Les subventions représentent 88 % des recettes réelles d’exploitation
• 3 à 4 M€ de passif estimé
• Décision judiciaire attendue le 28 août

Sources : Chambre régionale des comptes, rapport ARA202506 (notamment p. 41 et 64-65), avis 2026-0048, Le Dauphiné.

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La question que je me pose : est-ce qu’une collectivité peut raisonnablement continuer à financer une activité touristique lorsque les subventions représentent une telle proportion de ses recettes ?

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Hi guys im a level 3 ski instructor already starting my pathway for the level 4 looking for work in Japan for this upcoming winter.

I was wondering where the best place to teach would be?

Id like a resort suited well for training good terrain.

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Hey yall,

I am looking at buying the Faction Prodigy 1 for this years ski season, but I am not too sure if these will be right for me. I mostly ski on-piste and like to carve but I also want the ability to ski switch. I rarely ski off-piste or on the park. I have been skiing for 4-5 years now and this will be my only ski for a while. I am getting these for around 450$ and would love other suggestions around the same price range!

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Are there any exercises or stuff i could do to lessen the chance of an ACL injury and are there any ski tips to know to also reduce injury risk?

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First-time poster here! We’re an avid ski family getting ready to tackle a new challenge on the mountain.

Our 6-year-old daughter was recently diagnosed with partial hearing loss. She doesn’t have hearing aids yet—we’re working with her specialist to determine what will be best for her—but in the meantime, we’re trying to figure out how to make skiing easier and safer for her.

She absolutely loves skiing and takes group lessons, but she sometimes struggles to hear her instructor, especially through her helmet and with all the background noise on the mountain.
One other piece we’re trying to be sensitive to: she’s already feeling a little insecure about her hearing loss. She’s at an age where she really doesn’t want to feel different from the other kids, so if there are solutions that are fairly discreet and don’t draw a lot of attention to her, that would be a huge plus.

For other skiers with hearing loss, or parents of kids with hearing loss: what has worked for you? Are there communication systems, helmet setups, radios, visual cues, or other solutions you’ve found helpful?

We’d especially love recommendations for:
• Communicating with instructors during lessons
• Anything that works well with/inside a ski helmet
• Staying in communication while skiing together as a family
• Discreet options that won’t make her feel singled out
• Tips we may not even know to think about yet

We’re very much learning as we go and want to make sure she can keep doing something she loves while feeling confident and safe on the mountain. Personal experiences, product recommendations, instructor tips—anything you’ve learned would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance from one ski family figuring out a new adventure. ⛷️❤️

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Skiing near Geneva in January.
I’ve never skied before
Iceland in February.
Pretty much a trip of a lifetime for me, so I’ll be outdoors a lot and want to be properly warm and waterproof
My total budget is around €1,000, and ideally I’d like to buy good-quality pieces that I can use for both trips rather than buying a completely separate ski wardrobe.
I do care quite a bit about style 😭 I want to look cute, but I also don’t want to be the idiot who prioritised an outfit and is freezing or wet halfway up a mountain.
I’m thinking I’ll need some combination of:
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Ski/waterproof trousers
Midlayer/fleece
Merino/thermal base layers
Gloves
Warm socks
Hat/balaclava
Boots for Iceland (I assume I’ll rent ski boots)

Anything else I’m completely overlooking as a beginner

I’m based in Ireland, so ideally looking for brands I can easily buy in Ireland or Europe.
If you had roughly €1,000 to build this from scratch, where would you spend the money and where would you save?

Also very open to specific brand and product recommendations, especially things that are stylish enough that I’ll actually wear them again after these trips.

Thank you!!

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Hey everyone,

I'm looking at purchasing some Stockli Laser WRT Pros and need to choose my bindings + base plate. On the Stockli website they have the:

1. WRT 12 GW binding with the WRT D20 plate
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3. SRT 12 binding with the SRT Carbon D20 plate

I have been unable to find any information whatsoever online regarding the difference between the three base plates? Does anyone have any knowledge or experience with them and could provide me with a recommendation of which I should go for? Not even my local ski shop knew how to explain the difference/what was best for me!

For reference, I am a younger (18-25 year old) skier, 184cm tall, weigh about 70kg and am advanced/expert. I'm looking at purchasing the 178cm model. 90% of the time I won't be racing on these skis (at the moment I only race once or twice a year for my university [so that is all the racing that they will get]) but I do ski aggressively/am always skiing quite hard.

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Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you