Let’s just ignore the weather forecast and see what happens shall we?

Another attempt at Mont Vallon succeeded this time. Awesome snow but everyone had the same idea.

Over to VT to see if we can get a run down Cime de Caron. It turns out they broke one of the cable car cabins last year by crashing it into the lift station, so it is closed for the season. They don’t mention this in the three valleys app, they have just removed it from the list of lifts. So you look at the app for VT and it shows everything open… which it is not…

Luckily spotted a good old manual sign on a lift so we didn’t waste any time. Headed over to Orelle where the snow was really good and then got to the top of Caron on the bubble from that side (new in 2021). There is a brand new restaurant up here (the impressive structure on the left).

They must be pretty irritated because it is easy to access from the non working cable car and hard to access from the Orelle bubble so I imagine it is pretty quiet in there, probably wasn’t a cheap thing to build.

Anyway as you can see the weather was deteriorating so we headed down to one of VTs covered lunch huts (now with free WiFi.. I mean really?) and then back to Meribel while we could still see.

Not sure if this is a dinosaur or a dragon we spotted on the way back. Not sure that his tail was working well with chairlifts.

Decided to stop at the Tarte aux Pomme cafe for a coffee. It is only called Tarte aux Pomme by us, everyone else calls it La Sitelle. Apparently it has been run by the same family since 1984 but it is no longer a self and no longer sells Tarte aux Pomme. They do have waffles though

They keep the crowds down by being rude and generally unwelcoming to customers as they arrive. We somehow slipped through their defences and got a table mostly out of the snow.

Really heavy snow made skiing pretty horrible so we called it a day an hour early. Still skied over 55km though.