The good news was that the snow that had made for a rather irritating end of the day yesterday had carried on overnight and had given us a nice 20cm of fresh snow. The bad news was that it was still snowing, giving us a complete white out at the top of the first lift. We stayed in the trees around altiport for a bit until the weather improved and we headed over to Courcheval  Courch for lunch. We had brought sandwiches and found a really nice indoor picnic area to eat it. You need to be careful which door you enter by though….

Of course that would not pose a problem for these guys seem to be making a good living cleaning the tables of crumbs from the outdoor area.

In the afternoon the sun finally came out so we headed to the family fun park (I think the correct term is we ‘dropped in’)

The we headed over to 1650 in some seriously nice weather….

You’ll notice the lack of people… in general it has not been very crowded at all. This may be partly because not all UK schools are on holiday and apparently it is only the start of the French school holidays season, but it may also be because you have to be barking mad to be out in the conditions between these sunny intervals.

The cloud socked in big time so we headed home and discovered that everybody who was skiing was trying to do it in the same cloud we were. Came across a lad who must have been about 10, carefully working his way down the slope in full  control. When he caught up with his mother she shouted at him “Daniel can we stop hanging around and ski down really fast, I’m really scared up here”. Nice to see the brits out giving a masterclass in responsible parenting…. We made it home in the end through white out and invisible lumps of snow to try and rip your skis off, for the sun to come out just as we made it to the apartment…

Felt we  had deserved a trip to my favourite Mottaret restaurant which serves the best tartiflette in the alps (trust me I have researched this). They only have 5 tables to you need to book.

There was floodlit sledging this evening… we passed.

Hoping that tomorrow brings more of this….

Possibly without the thumb in the way.