Hate to break this to you, but most of the cheese they use in fondue isn’t vegetarian. Raclette definitely isn’t.

TBF I’m not a full on vegetarian. I’ve just had/chose to stop eating meat for medical reasons. A few other things have been cut down on or cut out of my diet, but cheese isn’t going to be one of them!!

A few days late posting but had a good day at Weardale on Saturday. Enough snow and lots of people out. Got a bit thin in the afternoon but my first skiing for 3 years and visibility was good. Good day out all round.

The last few days in the Grand Massif has brought out some ‘idiot’ scary, fast skiers.
These people don’t seem to care about the safety code of piste skiing. Dangerous in popping off piste and then popping back on without looking, standing in the middle of the piste usually below a dip and just plain speeding around on busy pistes, many with children in ski school. It’s been particularly bad on this trip since we had fresh snow on Tuesday.

I did have a particularly horrible incident with a young skier desperate to push into a 2 man chair lift queue, then the ‘lifty’ shouted at me to take my backpack off before getting on the chair, amazingly I wasn’t wearing one :O)

Ski or snowboard in control please and be aware of others. It’s called being considerate.

Ski or snowboard in control please and be aware of others. It’s called being considerate.

Maybe I’ve been lucky but haven’t seen any of this on this trip. One slightly agitated lady after she was cut up by a struggling snow plougher, apart from that just a lot of people having a great time.

We’re just on the way back North through France, just south of Dijon at the moment.

First day was Weds 8th.

Les Arcs for 2 days. Snowed overnight as we arrived and the first day, bit wet but helped to top the pistes up. 2nd wday good on piste up high but soft & wet lower down. Left because rain forecast.

3 Days in Val Thorens / 3 Vals (would have been 4 but storm day). First day snowing all day, top lifts not open but powder everywhere, half price ticket 😁. 2nd day storm day, chilled out mostly in the van. 3rd day morning cloudy, clearing for the afternoon, still plenty of fresh snow to be found. 4th day went over to Courcheval for a cruise, spring conditions low down.

2 days in Sainte Foy – epic, poured with rain for an hour after we arrived before turning to snow for the night and next day. Best powder I’ve seen for years & great accessible off piste. 2nd day bluebird – perfect 😎 Avalanche risk high so didn’t stray too far. Will definitely be back. Also zero queues and awesome hot dogs from the mountain restaurant.

1 day in La Rosiere, nice cruisy day. Went to La Thuile on the worst & longest drag lift ever. Thuile appeared to be a mostly flat plateau, didn’t stay long.

2 days in Le Corbier. Wished we’d gone back to VT. Spring seems to have given way to summer! Pistes were in awful shape and it was HOT. Finished today after tartiflette at the top.

All in an awesome trip, we did well at following the snow and making the best of the conditions. The dog came with us for the first time and he loved playing in the snow. The camper did great, only casually being the radio aerial from the weight of snow sitting on it 😞

If I was on my way to France now I’d probably go to Val T and not consider anywhere else unless there’s some snow forecast (there might be some due late this week?)

Off to La Plagne on 31st. The ever optimistic Snowforcast predicts a bit of new snow but I have never seen as much fall as they predict.
Still as mentioned earlier, as long as there is enough to ski on, that’s fine. We aren’t going at Easter expecting mid winter conditions but there is always hope!

It was raining in Morillon this morning, so maybe this turned to snow at the top.

We’re heading home now after enjoying most of the weather that phil556 had.
The storm last week was amazing. Everyone was talking about it the next day, as it’s quite rare at the end of winter/start of spring.

@TheDTs enjoy 🙂 I’ve read that the pistes in La Plagne have been holding up OK so hopefully they’ll still be good, especially if they get a bit of a top up.

Can we stop talking about rain etc.

I’m going out to PdS on first of April and I’m quite happy in denial.

The amount of rain forecast you might as well be in the nile.

igm
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Can we stop talking about rain etc.

I’m going out to PdS on first of April and I’m quite happy in denial.

😬