The forecast promised sunny intervals but in fact we had pretty much full sun all day. There were a few wisps of cloud first thing, which created an effect not entirely unlike being inside one of those snow globe things. I tried to photograph it but failed. You might just be able to make it out from this one.

We headed over to La Masse for the morning, it was a relatively balmy -7C by the time we got there, with some stunning views from the top. I thought people were taking the onesie thing a bit far until I realised this was a carving.

Another interesting lunch stop. This one had classic brutal Les Menuires architecture looks on the outside..

But inside it was heated, with nice tables and chairs, drinking water, microwaves and even a coffee machine.

For the afternoon we headed over to BK Park and dropped in for a few runs. After our first run through the jumps (not as well constructed as last year) they closed them while the helicoptered an injured child out. For some reason this rather dented our enthusiasm to go round again.

A nice ski down to St Martin de Belleville,

this was a tiny village when we first visited years ago that seems to be growing quite a bit, and the lifts on the way up had queues of about 10 minutes or so. As it is Valentine’s day someone decided handing out some free alcohol would help?

This evening was the torchlit descent and ski instructors show. Now these are usually pretty random and chaotic events, but the floodlighting failed not long into this one which added a whole new twist. Imagine if you will a commentator trying to explain what some ski instructors are doing, formation skiing in the dark. Someone had the sense to set off the fireworks and we all went to the bar a few minutes early.

I have some videos from today, but I don’t have time to post them this evening. Here is a picture of a Marmot in the meantime.