First a couple of videos from yesterday.

This is me following a Parrot down part of BK park…

Then we have a clip from Ecrueil, the black run off the top of Tougnete

As ever the video does not do justice to either the 50Km/h speed or how steep it is.

That was the last of the sun we would see for a while. Thursday started out with the 0C isotherm at over 2500m, and the cloud base down at about 2000m. This gives a simple choice, ski below the cloud in the rain (which is not nice) or ski up in the cloud in the snow (which is er.. not nice). One interesting spot in the morning was someone with even more retro gear than us.

That is actually tweed…

After a couple of hours we decided to retreat for a long lunch in the apartment. Most of my ski gear is from the technological dark ages before social media bots decided elections and we could still fly supersonic across the Atlantic,  but even 20 year old Gortex XCR does an incredible job of keeping the water the right side of the material.

We ventured out again in the afternoon, there were layers of cloud so you ski from snow, down into reasonable visibility, then into rain.

The snow conditions underfoot are incredibly variable, from powder to slush, I don’t want to think what it will be like when it freezes.

This evening we had the madness of the floodlit sledging. We have a lot of video, here are a couple of samples.