I used to use an app called Navionics Ski.. which had great maps and logged our route. It was free and I never understood why it was free and how they were ever expecting to make any money…. clearly they spotted this because they discontinued it. The 3 valleys used to have a reasonable app, they discontinued that and the current one is pretty hopeless…. so I downloaded a new one called Slopes… you have to pay a small amount to get the best maps, but it is worth all the effort to be able to report that today we skied 39.8Km and were actually skiing for 3H 7M and spent 1H 43M on lifts….

We decided to go over to Meribel but got distracted by Mont Valon on the way. The views are so much better with almost no wind

The snow conditions in Mottaret look pretty bad from a distance

The runs into the resort were OK in the morning, but getting pretty slushy by 2pm, can’t imagine what they will be like by 4pm.

We were going to try out the airbag but I had not brought my gopro so it seemed a waste. Instead, we dropped into Courch…and had lunch at a picnic area at the bottom of Creux. There are quite a few picnic areas and we have got used to taking a sandwich. There are quite a few places to buy fillings here…. as long as you are not Vegan.

We took in another orientation thing on the way back to Val Thorens, I tried to do a 180 degree panorama of it, not sure how well it has worked.

Stopped on the way back for one of these.

And one of these

There is some kind of festival going on at the Waffle cafe… If I knew how to tell the difference between, House, Garage, Bungalow and Alkaline Semi-detached then maybe we could navigate by the beat from the cafes in the fog?

They seem to throw everyone out at 6PM and a swarm of drunks head down the piste and into the bars below our apartment. We suspect some may be students. Clues include a bunch of young men dressed in red hunting jackets, and people using inflatable alligators as toboggans.