Empty pistes, fresh snow!
We received another 30cm top-up of fresh powder a couple of days ago, and finally the weather has broken, and it is a lovely day today.
Clear skies, a little mist hanging in the Chamonix valley…
It's a beautiful day - the Fiz showing through the clouds
Best of all… the pistes are empty and the snow is amazing!!
Empty pistes
- Perfect snow on a near empty home run…
Here at the chalet, we have nearly one metre of snow in the back garden!
1m deep snow on our BBQ
We arrived on 8th March to a clear blue sky and a lovely skiing day. The next 3 days it dumped about 70-80cm with no sun but some of the best powder skiing I have ever experienced both on and off-piste. Leighton and Helen did a fantastic job showing us around and looking after us. The off-piste powder was just brilliant with knee to waist deep soft fluffy stuff and spectacular routes. For the last 3 and a half days it was bright sun and lovely groomed pistes in Les Houches, Les Contamines and Courmayeur. All in all, as with our visit in January, a brilliant experience in a special place with special people, who I am privileged to now call friends. In a word – fantastic!
Comment by Paul Martin - the one in the red jacket! — Monday 16 March 2009 @ 11:31 am