We parked in the empty car park - the resort was closed for the year - and wandered over to the white ribbon that was all that was left of the descent route. From here we headed off up the frozen track.
We did not see the sun until we were well past the half way point of the descent route, where the chair lift changes wires. after this we disappeared into the trees on a series of switches, before coming out by the lowest drag lift.
We kept going up to the restaurant and the other two drag lifts. From here we cut up the very steep slopes that exit the bowl in front of the restaurant.
After leaving the bowl behind the upper slopes open out and we got the full impact of this vast undulating plateau.
We Followed up beside the middle drag lift, we were getting close to our turning time, and we settled on prominent bump this was top at 2366m.
The top had some bare patches, so we sat an ate lunch and took in the view - in front was the other side of the valley, and behind was a great view of the continuation of the domain.
We made as much use as we could of the fresh snow lying on the good firm base.
We then dropped down into the bowl, before following descent route back to the car..Although we had started off on the piste the top section was effectively a mountain route, as the pistes were all covered and blown over. We just had the lifts as indicators of where we were.