The Spring Hut to Hut Tour! Conditions at the start were not auspicious! On Sunday the 16th of April Cate and me, with our friends Martin, Nick and Chris, plus our guide Pierre and his partner Nathalie, set off from Le Fornet to reach the Prariond hut above the Maupassant gorge – in dense fog. …
Since Cate’s girl friends left last month we have switched to “training mode” – trying to get a bit fitter ahead of the ski tour we will be doing next week. The weather has been much more unsettled: cold spells, warm spells, sun, rain and snow; and often many of those on the same day! …
I returned from a week in London visiting family to entertain my girlfriends from college days. Sally, Helen, Rigby, Sarah and I all met in Autumn 1983 and have had so many good times together over the almost 40 years we have been friends. Now we have more space in the chalet it was a …
The off-piste trip, a regular fixture of the winter season. For over 20 years I have joined David, Martin, Nick, Chris and our guide, Dave, for a week of off-piste skiing. This year we returned to Andermatt. Conditions were tricky, to say the least, with almost no fresh snow having fallen for over a month. …
Still waiting for snow!!! Nonetheless we’re having a lovely time in the mountains and enjoying lots of sunshine. Jonny, Beth, Rosie and Tilda arrived for a long weekend and we headed up to Ste Foy where they have skied before and absolutely loved. Luckily the UK half term was over and the resort was fairly …
We need more snow!!! The weather this winter must be unprecedented. There has been no new snowfall for at least a month, with blue sunny skies every day. The slopes are in desperate need of fresh snow – both on and off piste. All the powder has gone, the pistes are icy and the off …
Since the last blog we have been busy! We had a few days with no-one staying and fabulous snow so made the most of it skiing the off-piste in Villaroger and Ste Foy. In fact we had such a fabulous morning skiing from the Aiguille lift down to Le Monal village that we had to …
Well… the temperature dropped, the snow fell (lots of it), then the sun came out. The only thing to do was to enjoy the powder! We spent the day in Ste Foy, starting with a couple of warm up runs on the off-piste to the left of the Marquise lift, then heading to the top …
I’m writing this on the 15th of January, on what seems like the first quiet day since we started the season out here. The day after we celebrated Cate’s birthday we waved goodbye to Ros and Godric, and started the long drive back to England. We stopped in the beautiful medieval town of Troyes for …
It’s started, and started with a bang! After three weeks of painting, decorating, DIY, furniture moving and generally getting our house ready, we welcomed our first guests – Martin and Jeavon – on the 9th of December. And, if anything, we seem to be even busier: this time with partying! Fresh snow was falling as …