Les 2 Alpes - Winter 2007/8

Gregd, There won't be any discounts, but you might as well wait, get to the liftpass office either late or early and go inside (sooo many peeps Q outside) - it shouldn't take long. Not worth the risk if there's a problem with the post at this point in time.

It was a fantastic day again today. I'm not really getting bored writing that. Blue sky, good snow and warm in the afternoon. I don't think the ambient temperature rose all that much as it was chilly in the shade, but very warm in the sun. No wind on the Cretes, but a bit on the glacier early on. It wasn't enough to blow snow around though. The snow on the Cretes was just exactly what a piste is supposed to be like. coming down at about 16.15 the chemin des Demoiselles was hideous, so I took to the Posettes top part and found it partially softened. It was fine to ski, and at least there weren't too many peeps on it. Back onto the Valentin at the bottom, to find a frightened dutch or flemish lady with her skis off thinking about walking down. I told her that it was terribly dangerous, and persuaded her to go back up to the green - thank goodness! (no phew! smilie).

Pic of les Cretes looking and feeling good. If you look carefully you can see that the protective fence at the side of the green Petit Cretes has been moved sideways and the opening set lower. Much more convenient and more space for the classes.

another great day today. Still chilly on the glacier, but relatively warm lower down. I was in a headband for a while, but had to put my hat back on about 3pm. I was up on the glacier and then down via the top of the hidden valley and onto the Breche (don't ask!) - great snow. Down the Grand Nord, Deversoir (for the first time this season) and bottom of combe du Thuit - great snow. Cretes - great snow. Grand Creux at the Toura level - great snow. In fact the snow was even great on the bottom of the Valentin, although I did find some ice on the Demoiselles! All in all, it's hard to imagine it better, but if we have another week like this one it will get icy on the lower slopes by the end of that. Pic is from the top of Grand Creux looking up to the glacier - don't worry about the rocks - they're outcrops and not on the pistes!

colbolt, jonm, Thanks for the thanks.

jonm, Plenty to enjoy at the moment.

another fab day. Sunny and pleasant. It's not hot, but not nasty and cold either. Temp -11 on the glacier at 08.00 this morning, but less wind than yesterday so much nicer. Today I was up on the glacier and skied the Dome and the bottom of the Echines before heading back down (had been on Grand Nord/Bellecombe before that). The snow throughout was excellent. The Echines was a bit variable as you'd expect, but well skiable. 'Moonland' was fine but with some nasty breakable stuff to catch out anyone who wasn't doing gentle sp turns! Pic is of the Echines des Chevres. If you look closely you can see a couple of skiers, which gives you an idea of the scale

m_enanos, Welcome, and I think your english is fine! there will be plenty of snow when you come - there is lots and lots of it!

BOREDINWORK, Also welcome. don't worry, even if it doesn't snow before you arrive there'll still be plenty of the stuff to go around. However it would be most unusual to go more than about 3 weeks without snow, so I'm sure it will come again.

Today was ..... wait for it .......... pleasant and sunny! Not too warm though as about 15.00 my fingers started getting cold as I'd foolishly taken only my summer gloves up today! I didn't have my boot heaters on at midday but I put them back on around the same time as my fingers got cold (hat on too). therefore, although it seems pretty warm in the sun, it must be fairly chilly up the mountain. There are one or two harder patches appearing, but apart from the Demoiselles no ice. The think is, the parents of two of my students told me that it was icy in the Combe du Thuit this afternoon. I barely even saw any harder patches (indeed the snow was mostly firm packed powder with a little soft powder on top), so one wonders what constitutes 'ice' in some peoples' books? For me ice is the shiny grey or blue stuff! Anyway, no ice in the Combe du Thuit. Pic of that run from the bottom at about 15.50 this afternoon.

lordjohn, Thanks - we're hoping for a little more snow before too long, as it is deffo starting to get a little hard on some of the high usage corners which are subject to wind and so on. Other places are still fine, but obviously with plenty of holidays still to come a top up would be very welcome! sometimes you can have too much sun!

today's photo is looking down onto the jolly little off piste area I call 'moonland'. Perfect for novices as you can weave gentle spts around the rocks and little gullies (you can't see them in the photo). La Muzelle in the background.

Give me a bell once you're alli n.

Dave Horsely Glad you enjoyed so much of the resort. It's true that once everyone has dispersed the queues are not much. Unfortunately peeps seem to take the Qs for the Jandri Express and talk about them. The Belle Etoile lift hardly ever has Qs.

It was warm and sunnay again today, and the snow on the nursery slopes was surprisingly good first thing this morning. I was expecting it to be fairly icy, but it was just firm pisted corduroy. Cretes was good, and I took the girls down Les Posettes last thing and we had fab spring snow for the first 2 legs. The third leg was a bit trickier but still skiable by youngsters without a lot of off piste experience. I took this pic from the bottom of the third leg of Posettes looking back up.