Sunny, but no more snow.

Firstly an apology, last week’s blog was published twice, so the email subscribers will all  have got two emails, this was not intentional, even with the irony that the first line of last week’s blog was “….this blog is getting slightly repetitive…”. We are blaming our dodgy 4G mobile phone signal.

This week’s weather has been fabulous, blue skies and sunny all week, great for skiing but not good for the snow and the ski runs. Thankfully the temperatures have still been dropping below freezing each night. Even so, at lower levels, the runs are becoming really icy with limited snow cover. 

We have skied six days this week, trying to pick off Blue and Green runs we haven’t previously skied. Nic also did her first red run this year (Bergin). Rog has been enjoying the snow blades so much we have taken his skis back to the shop early.

It is interesting to see how the ski runs change, day by day, and also within the day. We can ski something in the morning and ski the same run again later in the day, the experience can be very different. More/Less people,  different piles of soft snow and sheets of ice. 

Everywhere is getting busier, a guy, with whom we shared a cable car, who works for the company running the ski lifts, said (in French) that next week, the Paris schools holiday week, will be like a “war”! A bit of an exaggeration, and a flippant use of a very strong word, but we got the gist.

On our day off skiing we walked to Sameons following the footpath signed specifically for walkers, as walkers are not allowed on the Nordic ski trails. Rog managed to slip on a patch of ice, thankfully his empty backpack took most of the fall and no harm done. But after shopping we did get the ski bus back home. 

At the weekend we watch all the Rugby Six Nations matches, a win for England! We entertain ourselves trying to work out what the French commentators are talking about, we could mute the sound, but we like the crowd noise, and to be able to hear the Ref!