Steer clear of the yellowish-green snow

After a long much needed lie-in yesterday, we made it up to the slopes for a very short, high-speed ski. i think the altitude and panic and stress of the last few days really caught up with us and about 11 hours of sleep seems to have somewhat cured it.

Pity we couldn't have been out for longer yesterday because the conditions were excellent. Fresh, deep powder everywhere and no one around. We only managed to fit one run in (Bleue de Lac) but it was worth it. After that Natalie prepared the meal while John took me on a tutorial run to Geneva airport to collect some work colleagues. On the return trip we did a tour of the rapidly closing DIY stores of Annemasse in the rush-hour traffic in a dark, ice, snow, hail, and rain. It was... educational.

On the left is Natalie just outside the chalet this morning in the clear sunshine.

Today was fabulous, partly cloudy, compacted pistes with plenty of (slight-heavy) powder off-piste. We got a taste of everything today, steep mogul-skiing off-piste (off les Tannes); freshly groomed, wide-open perfectly flat pistes (Bleue de Lac); very steep wide reds (unnamed run down to the bowl of Avoriaz), and a very very steep narrow red (something like "Veuines"), which was the home run in the near dark and heavy fog. We tried to make it back to the carpark at les Prodains, but my excellent navigation ended up with us fording a steep ravine. Don't follow me anywhere.



We also went round to the new chalet today to help assemble beds and the kitchen, but unfortunately it was still a building site so we just had to go out skiing instead. We're going to try again tomorrow.


This is for you Paul :P.

This is me. I'm somewhere near Geneva looking very suave. Je suis chaud!