@Tony Crocker let me know if you want me to do a thread for each day.
I caught the bus up to Tignes on Sunday 7th. A nice little minibus. Hardly any traffic so it only took 2 hours 40 minutes from Geneva. I got in about lunch time. It was hot. About 12 degrees Celsius at 2000 metres. I spent the afternoon getting a ski pass, doing some groceries, sorting ski kit and doing a gym session at the fantastic gym in Tignes Le Lac. I’m staying in a little Airbnb right in the centre because the Snoworks course I’m on meets there each morning.
The Snoworks people set up a WhatsApp group for the participants of all their courses this week. Very handy as quite a few of us are travelling solo so I met a few others for dinner last night. One chap is a barrister, another fellow a mathematician and strangely a nice middle aged lady was also a mathematician. The two math people had never met. I as a real estate person dumbed the dinner group down though.
We met our instructor Ewan from Edinburgh Scotland at 8.45am and collected our off piste pack. He warned us that because there has been no freeze for 3 nights the off piste skiing would be challenging. We spent the morning doing laps in Chardonnay bowl and the circuit off lookers left of the Grand Huit chair. The instructor described the snow as ‘hollow’ and ‘rotten’. It was hard to ski in as it felt gluey and grabby. Ewan said it was perfectly normal to be not skiing fluidly in that type of snow. He expects today would be the toughest day of the week as it should snow tomorrow and the temps will drop markedly. Here’s hoping.
After the lesson finished at 1pm I had a bite to eat then met with some others. We went up toward the Val D’Isere side but the creux piste was like waterskiing. We then moved up to the glacier in the hope the elevation would improve the snow. It did. We spent the afternoon lapping the Vanoise chair and the Grand Motte cable car. There was no feeling of having the brakes put on up there like down lower.
A few pics but they’re not great. The Saharan sand has left the snow an off white colour and the sky a murky haze.
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I’m pretty sure that was the start of the entry into the Chardonnay area.
Ewan did some transceiver training with us. You can see how far he sunk into the snow.
I caught the bus up to Tignes on Sunday 7th. A nice little minibus. Hardly any traffic so it only took 2 hours 40 minutes from Geneva. I got in about lunch time. It was hot. About 12 degrees Celsius at 2000 metres. I spent the afternoon getting a ski pass, doing some groceries, sorting ski kit and doing a gym session at the fantastic gym in Tignes Le Lac. I’m staying in a little Airbnb right in the centre because the Snoworks course I’m on meets there each morning.
The Snoworks people set up a WhatsApp group for the participants of all their courses this week. Very handy as quite a few of us are travelling solo so I met a few others for dinner last night. One chap is a barrister, another fellow a mathematician and strangely a nice middle aged lady was also a mathematician. The two math people had never met. I as a real estate person dumbed the dinner group down though.
We met our instructor Ewan from Edinburgh Scotland at 8.45am and collected our off piste pack. He warned us that because there has been no freeze for 3 nights the off piste skiing would be challenging. We spent the morning doing laps in Chardonnay bowl and the circuit off lookers left of the Grand Huit chair. The instructor described the snow as ‘hollow’ and ‘rotten’. It was hard to ski in as it felt gluey and grabby. Ewan said it was perfectly normal to be not skiing fluidly in that type of snow. He expects today would be the toughest day of the week as it should snow tomorrow and the temps will drop markedly. Here’s hoping.
After the lesson finished at 1pm I had a bite to eat then met with some others. We went up toward the Val D’Isere side but the creux piste was like waterskiing. We then moved up to the glacier in the hope the elevation would improve the snow. It did. We spent the afternoon lapping the Vanoise chair and the Grand Motte cable car. There was no feeling of having the brakes put on up there like down lower.
A few pics but they’re not great. The Saharan sand has left the snow an off white colour and the sky a murky haze.
^^
I’m pretty sure that was the start of the entry into the Chardonnay area.
Ewan did some transceiver training with us. You can see how far he sunk into the snow.
, served by the ski lift of the 3000 sector of Solaise, the Tunnel of 3000, created by our Elders to access the Pissaillas Glacier while the climbs did not yet exist in the Valley of Iseran... The weather conditions are still a bit capricious but the happiness of making history live makes us happy 
️ reserved for very good skiers)