Skip to content

More Mountain blog and latest news

You are here:

Posts tagged Garmin Alpine Challenge

  • 75.1 mph on Skis = Free Holiday for Two

    February 5th, 2011 by Jon in Latest news

    Comments (0)

    Last year’s Garmin Test Centre Winner, Jonathan Brothers, has just secured a holiday for 2 at More Mountain, courtesy of Garmin and the Garmin Snow Club

    Jonathan exceeded the Nation Legal Speed Limit, clocking a mighty 75.1mph ( 120.9 kph ) on his skis last winter.

    Jonathan says…
    ” I was lucky enough to get freshies down a usually mogulled Black piste in Les Gets. I just pointed my skis down and tried to resist putting a turn in. I knew it was fast, when my ski tips started to flap, my helmet was whistling and my eyes started to water, but I didn’t realise it was over 120kph!! ”

    Will More Mountain hail any winners again this year?
    We are already top of the league table with a speed of 100.2 kph!

    As all of our chalets are Garmin Test Centres you too can enter the Garmin Snowclub Alpine Challenge and be in with a chance of winning.
    Just take out one of the fantastic Garmin Oregon 450 GPS devices (complete with Mountain Dynamics Snowranger Resort Mapping) out for the day, then upload your stats onto the Garmin Snowclub website via Garmin Connect.

    Fastest – The top prize of your stay for the following year, plus Dakoto 20 with choice of mapping
    Furthest – Garmin Foretrex 310XT and Dakota 20 with choice of mapping
    Highest – Garmin Dakota 20 with choice of mapping
    Prize Draw – Garmin Forerunner 310XT – to encourage the non-competitive.

  • More Mountain Guests win the Garmin Challenge

    June 7th, 2010 by SThomas in Morzine

    Comments (0)

    Garmin® Crowns its Alpine Champions

    Garmin® celebrates a successful winter season and rewards the fastest, highest and furthest travelled in the Alps. More Mountain Morzine, one of Garmins hand selected Alpine test centres for the new Garmin Foretrex GPS, are thrilled to announce two of the three winners as their own!

    Garmin® the global leader in satellite navigation celebrated its first and successful winter season in snowsports by announcing the 3 champion skiers and snowboarders from the Alpine Garmin Test Centres that travelled the fastest, highest and furthest. It turns out that 2 of the 3 winners stayed with us here at More Mountain in our luxury chalets in Morzine this winter.

    Throughout the Winter 09/10 season, over 5,000 guests swooshed through the doors of Garmin Test Centre Chalets across the Alps and snapped at the opportunity to trial the Foretrex 401 GPS devices, as sported last season by BBC Ski Sunday’s Graham Bell.

    The practical wrist-worn device provided thousands of trialists with immediate speed, height and distance feedback, as well as extensive navigational capacity. More than simply enhancing the users’ slope-time, at the end of the day trialists uploaded their daily tracklogs to Garmin Snow Club for automatic entry into the season’s league table and chance to win a week’s winter holiday and Garmin devices. After 5 months, and well over 10,000 tracked miles, Garmin can reveal the Test Centre Champions for Winter 09/10:

    How Fast? – Jonathan Brothers, 75.1mph – More Mountain Chalets, Morzine

    *A week’s winter holiday for two at More Mountain, plus a Foretrex 401 device*

    How High? – Andy Fisher, 10,585m (vertical descent) – Pleisure Holidays, Courchevel

    *A Foretrex 401 and Dakota 20 device*

    How Far? – Ben Lakin, 45.07miles – More Mountain Chalets, Morzine

    *A Foretrex 401 device*

    “In our first year of presenting the brand to the snowsports market, we have been overwhelmed with the response” said Chris Merrell, Garmin’s Marketing Manager. “We knew that the Foretrex 401 filled a gap in the market, but for demand to increase 10-fold on last year has taken even us by surprise. We now intend to push on into Winter 10/11 taking the learning’s gained from our excellent Test Centres and ambassadors Graham Bell and Ed Leigh to further increase the benefits that Garmin brings to snowsports.”

    Both Garmin devices are available at all Snow + Rock and Ellis Brigham stores nationwide.

    Foretrex® 401 – SRP £199.99

    DakotaTM 20 – SRP £279.99

    For a chance to win a FREE HOLIDAY or Garmin GPS next season, book your stay at More Mountain and join the winning team from this year!