Wind had dropped a bit so we headed over to VT (Val Thorens to you old people). First stop was the glacier lift at the top of Peclet. The map does not list its height, but it looks like plenty to me.

The run off the top is a steep black piste but at this height the now is hard, but not icy. The chairlift is suitably terrifying to keep the crowds down…

Lunch at the waffle stop as usual, the waffles are the same, but I swear the lady making them was not born when we first came here (I was going to ask her but nobody else liked that plan). See previous years for a picture of the waffle place, it won’t have changed, but this year we have live music as well. Of course when I say live I mean a lady who can sing and operate an MP3 player at the same time…

There is a new link over to the 4th Valley, Orelle, so we took that. At 3002 metres it was a touch windy, but the views from up here are worth the effort.

The snow over in this valley is incredibly good, and the screaming wind of the cols seems to keep the crowds away, but once you ski the first 100m it is fine. The place is deserted.

This area took us up to the highest point in the 3 valleys at 3230m. I would post the picture, but the cloud was starting to build by this time, so think top of one cloud viewed through the bottom of another one moving at high speed mixed with blown snow and you really don’t need the picture….

This evening’s madness was sledging again. Not content with a small slope to injure children on they have moved on to open a chair lift this year to give a 2km floodlit sledge run. This increases the risk of accident to a whole new level. Even the French are making helmets compulsory….

We rented the last sledge in town and had a go. I have some helmet camera video of a pretty good wipeout I will try and load for tomorrow.