Week To Go

Les Grands Bains, Monetier

Tick tock, it’s nervous exhaustion, we’ve been riding the clutch of expectation and it’s, quite frankly, exasperating.

The pistes open Saturday, we’ve had some great falls, but there are some gaps at the bottom and now it’s started to rain, ever so gently, but just enough to help doubt sprout.

Took the kids to the bottom of the piste in Monetier over the weekend, Saturday was lovely, the crystals of snow sprayed out, each distinct and fine like flour on a dredging board. Sunday was like treading on concrete, totally compact and bijoux like a diamond, but not icy. I would not like to take a tumble on that.

Rain is forecast for early in the week, but then nothing, maybe a very light dusting on Friday, not getting my hopes up on that prognostication.

It is cold enough to fire the cannons up, so that’s something, but it’s not the same is it?

However there are some great conditions above the first lifts, ie Bachas and Serre Ratier, so it’s just the last little step that I’m worrying about.

In Monetier this means you can make it to the lift, but if you wanted to ski back to Pre Chabert, past the bandstand, it would probably be best do it on ‘rentals’.

The piste down from Bachas

That’s advice you won’t see on any “official” sites.