22 February 2013

Areches, France

Last day , and once more the sun was with us... but freezing and low cloud.

Just off the second chair the snow was in the air .. like standing under the snow makers

Not really a time for hanging around ..

the usual off-piste run, followed by a trip down the boarder cross park. and then off to the top .. I had persuaded Chris to go again at another skinning deviation ..


We set off to do a little bump besides the col de la forclaz.. but we rapidly got to the col and above the cloud the sun we hot, and the wind negligable..  so rapid change of thought and we headed off to the col below the grand Mont.

We ran our time to the limit and got the col, unfortunately an other 45 mins we would have got to the top but we had a turn around time.





the powder was fantastic, the crust not so good and then a very fast run down to the meeting point by the top of the first chair, and some chips!.

The day was ended by a freezing run down to Le Planay, and back along the river side to the van.