Termignon, France

Again not sure what happened to day .. I assume we went back up the Termignon lifts.

we left early afternoon for home.

Termignon, France

Another grey day .. the girls and M-J decided to stay around the apartment.

Chris and I wanted to get out, so we chose to take a look at the map and see if there was a route we could skin close by .. after the route we had done with Bryon a few years before on the other side of the valley, we hoped for something similar.

The map showed a route going up a path, and marked with a ski route.

We set off down the track behind the apartment looking for the turn off.  There were some strange buildings on the map that turned out to be the local slurry pit for the cows. the next buildings were where the turn-off was ...  This was a small track behind a hedge.

We followed this upwards through the pastures, before it left into the woods.

The track was very churned up by people walking up and then overnight had been frozen solid ..  it was very hard going.

We could not forget about the descent all the way up .. there was little in the way of escape routes, so once we got tot the point where the route turned north, we arrived a small hut, where we lost the path, but also allowed us to take a break, and look down into the valley.

We turned around at this point, and gingerly felt our way back down the track...  large snowploughs to control the descent, until we broke out of the woods onto the meadows.

On the meadows we were able to go straight down, avoiding the barbedwire, and hence back to the track at the bottom, and back to the apartment.

A strange day, but did give us some hints of what we should avoid on the paths.

Val Cenis, France

There was a lot of low cloud around today, but the forecast was for it to be clear, so taking a chance we headed up to Val Cenis, and an opportunity to ride the off-piste beside the runs. We took the free bus to save on the van and fighting for a parking spot.

We headed up to the high point, on a combination of lifts, and as we rode up we passed through the clouds.

Up at the high point we could see the full extent of the cloud inversion below.

We then did a series of run on the top section before heading to the eastern end of the resort. Here we traced the route Chris and I had done with Bryon, all those years before.

After lunch at the bottom, we headed back up to the top. From here we were going to drop down to the Western end, via the col de Cenis.

The girls and M-J then headed down to the village of Lanslebourg, where Chris and I would meet them later to catch the bus back.

Meanwhile Chris and I headed up to the top for a swift run from the top to the bottom in one go.

We met up with everyone in the creperie

Termignon, France

I am not really sure what we did, however I think we went back up the lifts to Termignon, and we would have gone onto the top section, both left and right.

Steph did not go skiing.

Sledging for the girls.