After some very dodgy Föhn winds warming up the pistes, and then a few days of rain up to 2100m things were looking quite depressing.

Fortunately the weekend came to the rescue, and the snow started on Friday night, continued all of Saturday, and petered out on Saturday night, leaving a nice clear sky to bring on a bit of a chill.

Sunday has been bright sun and barely a cloud in the sky, and the snow is soft and fluffy. It’s amazing how quickly it gets tracked out these days, though.

Piste recommendations: pretty much anywhere is great and has good coverage. There’s some icy patches by the afternoon as the snow is brushed away, but nothing to worry about.

Off piste: head for the peripheries. Mont de la Guerre, off the Roche de Mio down to Les Bauches, and off the top of the Arpete down to Les Bois are all great. I suspect that off the Grand Rochette straight over down to Champagny is also lovely, but that’s more prone to sliding and with today’s avalanche risk of 4/5 exercise some caution. Oooh tell you what – I’ve not tried this this week since the g/f is here – but Cretes down to Coqs (black run, mostly unpisted) off towards Montalbert from Plagne Centre will be storming. Go give that a crack!

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