We decided we had to visit La Masse so headed over early before the bottom of Les Menuires got too slushy. The snow was pretty wet even at 10AM so who knows what it is like in the evenings, but the base is thick enough that you don’t see any rocks.

Anyway La Masse has a new gondola right to the top with a viewing platform with these novel metal things that when you align all the letters, the arrow is pointing at the mountain.

It also has a really good selfie mirror.

What many people don’t spot is that it is actually a one way mirror, and is the window of the gents toilet. So if you go in there you are looking out on what appears to be groups of people lining up to take pictures through the window into the gents toilet. Where else in the world would come up with that?

The skiing at the top of La Masse was brilliant but you have to get through Les Menuires at some point on the way back so we decided to head back to VT before lunch and head up to Cime Caron again. Here is a bit of video of one of the runs down.

Several correspondents have asked us to report on the lunch situation in the mountains. Most of the eating places on the mountain in VT have both a snack part, burgers chips et al. which will set you back between Euro 10 and Euro 15, and a restaurant part with proper meals that will set you back a lot more. Unlike Meribel there are one or two left with a “self service” but we have not investigated them further.

Les Menuires has a few bargain places.

Although with a croque monsieur at Euro 9.50, I am never going to complain about lunch being £9.00 in London again.

The summit of La Masses has meal deals

We spent the afternoon making the most of being in VT… the party was going strong in the Waffle cafe

And there is more evidence of the products of the UKs finest educational establishments being in town.

44.6KM today apparently. The weather may not be so good for the last 2 days but the forecast changes all the time so there is some hope….