Well they keep on PROMISING snow, but it always seems to be just three or four days away. It’s here at last though… just not in great quantities yet. Hopefully the storms that are livening up the UK at the moment will come through here in a feisty rampage and shake themselves out over La Plagne’s rather summery looking mountains.

There was some snow last night - about 1cm at 2000m, but it’s all melted here in about 2 hours this morning. Higher up, though, there’s some more soft - in fact I had a great gnarly day yesterday doing some long itinerary runs off the glacier.

Go up to the very top, take the chairlift that goes pretty much horizontally to the left (Traversee), and then head to the right down that slope towards the black run (Friolin), but at the top of the black run keep right (not, mind you, too far right since there’s a cornice and you’ll end up doing the north face down to Piesey, which is also fun, but best when the Paradiski link is working). So keep right and high and head in the direction of Montchavin, and your destination of the Bauches chairlift*. You do not need to keep so high that it doesn’t work for borders - they can maintain enough speed to make it.

There’s a pretty obvious saddle more or less dead ahead of you (I really should have taken my camera..duh). Head for this, and when you get to the top you’ll see an expanse of less tracked snow, which then goes into some trees, and down to the river and the Bauches lift. Here on in you’re on your own - rip it up!

*This isn’t actually Montchavin, but you can keep going directly down the blue run from here to Montchavin.. it’s just flat and boring and often a bit slushy since it’s quite low, so you might as well bail here unless you live there.

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