The forecast was not so good today. We have been used to getting up as high as we can nice and early and being greeted with scenes like this from yesterday

Today was more like this

The tourist information office has a long complex forecast, which is never right, other than on this occasion they predicted the cloud base at 3000m pretty accurately, we had to ski down about 200m from the top of Caron to get out of the cloud. Le app simply marks most days as sunny intervals and is bound to be right occasionally.

We decided to get as many runs on Caron in as we could while the light held. On one trip we spotted a punnet of strawberries (assuming that is the correct collective noun for a group of British students dressed in strawberry costumes). I did not manage to get a picture of them but as we skied down we noticed a bit of green in the middle of one of the steeper parts of the run. One of the strawberries had clearly lost her stalk. I picked it up and carried on down until I spotted them in the distance. Strawberry 4 was struggling to keep up with the rest of the group so I skied up alongside her and said “is this yours?” She thanked me profusely before heading off to try and catch the rest of the punnet. I didn’t get to ask which university she was from.

We have been seeking out the picnic spots for lunch. This one from yesterday was pretty awesome.

Today’s was more than a little hard to find… it didn’t seem to have occurred to anybody to make it accessible, with or without skis!

We stopped off for coffee at the waffle cafe, and we were just chatting to some other brits when they turned to music up and some dancers showed up.

I’m guessing that is not a traditional Savoyarde costume? They tried to persuade us to get up and join in but I very much doubt her professional insurance covers dancing with me in ski boots!