Snowing again today. We had hoped to ski Mont Vallon but it really is no fun in the fog. Once again, almost everybody we met was either part of a ski school, or a brit. Any sensible person who had driven here would head for home. But we are on a skiing holiday, and so we are going skiing! We saw at least one family shouting at the children that they should be enjoying themselves….The last day of a ski holiday is always a great time for doing stupid things and injuring yourself,  but we try and avoid this particular trap.

After lunch we skied over to La Tania in the hope of finding some different tree line skiing. After the usual getting lost in the fog we eventually found a great run, and then there was a sunny interval… just the one, for about 10 minutes.

You can just see in this picture the layers of cloud. We would start a run in clear, then ski down into the cloud, then after a while out of the bottom into clear again.
Another feature of skiing these runs in the trees is they have little side tracks which shoot off into the trees for 10m or so and then reappear onto the main run, usually over a jump. The best way to check these out is to watch which ones the ski instructors take their groups down. If there are none of these around then the other method is to send your father down first…..
We had great fun  charging through all the soft snow with occasional diversions into the trees, and actually covered our greatest distance of any day. We have skied a total of 217km over 6 days.
I leave you for now with a picture we found in the restaurant we visited this evening. I’m not sure if you will be able to read the poem… but it is rather appropriate.