Month: January 2022

31st January 2022

We’ve had another week of glorious sunshine and have been out in the mountains every day.  The search for untracked snow is becoming more difficult as we’ve had no snow for three weeks.  But we’ve done two lovely off-piste runs, the Itineraire Les Lanchettes above Villaroger and a revisit of the Col Grainier in Ste …

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24th January 2022

We’ve had another fantastic week of blue skies and great skiing.  On Tuesday we headed off with Wayne for another superb Alpine Experience morning, descending from the Grande Motte and then skinning to Col de la Sana.  There were very few other groups around and we had a lovely ascent to the col.  The couloir …

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17th January 2022

We had another huge dump of snow just over a week ago, and this has been followed by clear skies allowing us to venture further off piste. Last Monday the avalanche risk was high at 4/5 so we decided to play safe and stay in resort.  Incredible – we had yet another unexpectedly amazing day …

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8th January 2022

After the excesses of the pre-Christmas week, things have settled down and we have had a few quiet weeks. My sister, Lucy, and her family – Wilton, Alice and James, spent the Christmas week in a chalet in Saint Martin de Belleville – a satellite village at the foot of the Three Valleys ski resort, …

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