Henry 6-7 May

Euro ski 24

6 -7 March

We awoke to snow falling and quite foggy. Following breakfast we got our ski gear and bravely headed out. Our apartment faces the slopes so would be easy to stay inside and warm and look at the crazy people on the slopes…but we were soon enough with them. A couple of runs to get warmed up before I took Frank Thomson to areas I went to yesterday. Very different in not being able to see anything. We came across a hut serving lunch in thick whiteout. A warm feeling stepping inside with some tables occupied, a fire burning and the owner’s dog watching from its warm bed. We could have stayed there all afternoon but braced ourselves and went back into the fog. Several more lifts with new runs but by a little after 3:30pm, like yesterday, made beeline to our apartment. 

What a new day makes (Thursday 7 Mar) - blue sky and not a cloud to be seen. With perfect visibility we used today to ski the length of “les 3 Vallées” of interconnected resorts. We set off from our home village of Val Thornes but seemingly thousands of others had similar thoughts- to explore the beyond. So some long lift queues early. A magic run down a series of slopes to the village of Meribel before various gondolas and chairlifts took us from this valley to the next. We skied over the Col de la Loze at 2,304m. In non-skiing season there is a car-free road for cyclists which traverses this mountain. We skied down to the village of Courchevel. Very pretty. We are some 25 kms of ups and downs from Val Thorens here. Another number of lifts took us to 2,700m with awesome views of the French Alps surrounding us. Also we could see many more ski lifts and runs in all directions up many mountains - which will have to wait another day. Some sweet runs - they really were consistent and well groomed - took us back to Meribel and a late lunch. Another series of gondolas and lifts took us up and along a valley before we could drop down into Val Thornes. Postcard perfect ski day.