Aussois, France

 The weather still had not improved much, there was a fierce wind blowing. Chris, Alan and I were the only ones silly enough to want to go out on the hill.

We headed up into the cloud .. the hope was to come out above it ...  we did - just - but only at the top of the drag lift.



After a couple of fast runs on the reds, we decided to have a look over into the back bowls .. the lift was closed, but I believed we could escape around the bottom and back to the main piste areas.

We dropped down into the bowls and were really disappointed that all the snow that had fallen over the last few days had been blown away.

What we thought might be some good skiing was not, and we had a long pole to get out the bottom ...  not very satisfactory.

After all this effort we raced from the top to the bottom and retreated to the warmth of the apartment.