Brevant, France

Over night had seen more snow fall, and were really grateful we decided to move to the gite. Not understanding the stability of the snow pack after all this snow, and with there not having been much hard frost for a while we did not want to travel too far from the safer areas of the pistes, and with all the fresh snow there was some good off-piste playing to be had while using the mechanical lifts to get more runs in.

We started off on the combe East of the mid station, before heading the top, as this was in the clouds for most of the day.

To make good use of this time, we thought we would have a distraction around lunch, and dig a snow pit to look at the snow pack. So taking a diversion under the rope we found a suitable slope not too far form the piste.




The pit rapidly became a snow block to see what the fracture tests would give us ... as it was his idea, Dave was "volunteered" to be the poodle and do the jumping on the block.  The pack was far more stable than we could have hoped.

After the interlude we returned to the powder between the pistes, and repeated the descent from the top station several times.