We decided to Ski over to Morzine today. Although in theory linked to Avoriaz you can only ski down to one side of town, and all the skiing we wanted to get to is the other side. As this is a real town with proper roads you have to use  short ride in a shuttle bus. We used to do this all the time, but we are so used to the luxury of ski in ski out places we had forgotten how irritating it is to clump along pavements in ski boots and clamber aboard buses carrying skis. Anyway we made it and took the lift up the other side. Here is the view down.

You can just make out Avoriaz on the skyline just to the left of the larger mountain in the foreground on the right. They have some really nice steep but well groomed red runs here, nobody else seemed to want to ski them so you can still see the tracks from the piste grooming machines.

We skied over to Les Gets, which is another valley over again, I remember this as a small area from when we were here before but with quite a few new lifts there is a huge amount of skiing here. We did not have time to visit mucg of it before we had to head back. There is a lot that is in the trees here, making it all very pretty to look at.

We found a border cross, one of those shaped areas of snow with whoops and jumps… another thing that was unheard of when we first cam here. Anyway, we enjoyed playing on it.

Back to Avoriaz (via another shuttle bus across Morzine and the new cable car). It seems to be a requirement at this time of year that ski resorts put on some sort of show in the evening, starting with a torchlit descent by the instructors (they use LEDs these days, not the actual burning things we had to contend with the couple of time we have skied in torchlit descents). This is followed by some kind of show… Over the years we have seen impressive jumping, including by people inexplicably dressed in animal costumes. But Avoriaz does not really have a suitable bit of snow for that, so instead of that we were treated to a few of the instructors dancing, while a few others waved their (LED) torches….

I hope they pay them well. The ones assigned to handing out the free Vin Chaud probably had the best job….