Ski & Snowboard

The skiing on the whole for the three valleys was excellent. I especially liked the Meribel - Menuires mountain runs on the Menuires side but found it difficult to connect and get up across to Val Thorens, still I didn't need to. Runs such as Pramint and Les Allemands were fantastic, fast and wide. There really is no shortage of off piste options. On the way up to Chanrossa (“in Korshe”) on the left hand side of the lift is a most impressive part of Glacier for off piste and I take no responsibility for you taking up this tip. We skied solitarily and together, sometimes by choice and sometimes by losing each other at a turn. I fell often and that was due to me always picking the hardest way through the mogul or having to dodge someone and running off piste then stupidly trying to turn which you can’t do in a foot of snow! I did manage the fastest run of the week on the second morning at 57.9 mph and according to my GPS forerunner would have been even better had I managed to bleed off all that speed successfully and gracefully without losing a ski and having no choice but to accept the slow motion (to me) wipe out.