Oh what a glorious feeling
Looking at Bivouac restaurant from Fanjeas
It is spectacular up there, the calm before the storm, as school holidays all around France commence with the end bell on Friday. The country is divided into three regions and their breaks are staggered, meaning a least a third of the country is avaiable to ski for the next four weeks. (The smart people wait till March and avoid the kiddies.)
It was a very quiet January, but business has been “comme ci, comme ca” as a local ski shop owner told me on a lift this morning, but everyone is expecting a real money spinner for Feb. But the snow has been great and today it’s a lot nicer than it looks after a wee bit of Sun has been on it.
I decided 10 days off was enough to have recovered from my tumble, so headed up for a wee ski this morning. My shoulder’s still stiff, but damn it I paid for a season pass and demand satisfaction. It’s funny skiing again after a crash, I felt myself crunching my toes with fear, but it all worked out and just tootled around and survived. Sorry that was a really dull story – I went skiing and came home again, but the weather was nice.
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hi – coming to serre chevalier on the 20th march for a week. like the sound of there being no kids around by that time!
do you know what the snow is generally like at the end of march?
Best time really. School hols end, the posh French turn up for the two weeks after that and then the world forgets us, brilliant.
At that time there is usually pretty strong Sun so the last run of the day can be a little slushy at the bottom.
The Braincon end will almost certainly be rubbish after lunch, Monetier keeps the snow later as it’s norh facing – people always forget the variety of runs under the Pre Chabert lift.
Having said that I think the season is getting later a little bit each year, so very likely to see fresh powder rught up to the end on April 24th.