So you may recall our dismay in February when we were in Val Tho on a Tuesday to discover that the waffle stand had a day off. You can imagine our horror then when we arrive for the week to be told he has finished for the season! We checked our travel insurance and it seems we are not covered for cancellation due to lack of waffles so we had reconciled ourselves to living without waffles.

Anyway, back to the skiing. The day dawned bright so we thought it was high time we used our 3 valleys lift passes and headed over to Mont Vallon.

As ever it lived up to its reputation for great views and awesome skiing.

Heading back we saw what we thought was a constellation of Bronze Star ski school kids at the top of a black run so we figured it must be easy enough. Turned out it was a constellation of Gold Stars and I’m not quite up to that standard having dropped out of ski school with only 2 stars years ago…. we all got down, they got more style points than us.

Lunch with a view at the cafe at the top of Peclet. There used to be glacier skiing up here but sadly no more.

In the afternoon we skied with our youngest member as they have now been promoted to chair lifts. This involves skiing in the beginners area amongst the afternoon ski school groups. Below the star groups we have Flocon (snowflake) groups. Here is a blizzard of flocons heading down the fun park.

Our party member is an Ourson (bear cub or possibly Teddy bear depending if you believe Google or ESF ). Apparently the collective noun for bears is a sloth…

Heading up for our last run we spotted the waffle stall open.

It would have been rude not to stop but that delay meant we caught the last lift by 4 minutes and skied past the Follie Duece just as they were kicking out the people who had been in there drinking for a few hours…. Worth it for a waffle though. Mont Vallon, sunshine, waffles.. what more can you ask for?