18 February 2013

Les Saisies, France

Day 2 ... another gorgeous day ...  time to expand th horizons a little.

Having been warned about parking charges we stopped at Hautleuce parking on the side of the road..  this little village has a connection chair into the Les Saisies area .. also known as Espace Diamant

Two chairs up took us to the hub top for here ...  you go left or right ...  we chose to go right towards Douce... very gentle stuff took us down and up a couple of times and we reached Douce.  my eye was taken by a sign showing a black route and 36 ... so a long one .. just what we needed.. checking the map showed it went all the way down and used a bus to get to Hautleuce.  checking the conveniently placed bus timetable we had good time and could be down for lunch.

So down the Les Pres route ....  un pisted, and starting off with a very gentle roll to the edge.  then basically straight down a number of bowls and through the farms at the bottom ...  very pleasant.


We had to wait for the bus, then I made a basic error and got off the wrong side of the town .. lang walk back ... and only one auberge in sight ... so we went back up for lunch at a "standard" piste hostelry.

to finish a buzz down the red to the bottom and back home