Weather !

  It didn’t snow last night but the weather closed right in so visibility was pretty poor and then it started snowing as we went out.  It wasn’t snowing heavily but the flakes themselves were wet and heavy and the temperature was minus 2° C.

  We went to the top of the Tougnete gondola in search of better snow and found that the visibility was even worse although the snow was marginally better.  We came down Crêtes and then Choucas; the visibility was so poor I didn’t even realise that we were on Choucas until we got to the bottom.

  Then we tried to get on the Cherferie button lift.  Most of us managed to get on it, only one of us stayed on it to the top (wasn’t me).  There was another drag lift nearby - the much shorter and easier Caves, so I decided to practice on that for a while Guilliam went and rounded up the rest of the class.

  Having done a couple of runs around Caves I stopped and waited for the class.  Trouble was that by this time the visibility was so poor I couldn’t see across the piste… I assume they passed me in the mist and I eventually decided to board down Escargot; not the simplest blue run but one I am familiar with so I got back to the Chaudanne just before Noon and found Guilliam arriving with the class from the opposite direction.

  Didn’t bother going out in the afternoon as the snow was very slushy and although it was still snowing it was beginning to turn to rain with the rising temperature.  Instead I took my all mountain skis for a full service (mostly to get the base ground) and then went back to the chalet to fill the holes in the base of my race skis.