We’ve been up the mountain a grand total of three times now since arriving nearly three weeks ago! There has been no more than a sprinkle of snow and conditions are generally not great. I’m sure if we were here for a week’s holiday we would be making the most of it, but there’s no need to ride the ice every day when we have months ahead of us.
Our first run was (as you can see in the photo) rather late in the day to say the least. We had to take the gondola up from Les Prodains after buying our lift passes, because the two chair lifts were both closed. The short trip to the only chair lift open, which takes you half way up the Arare run was rock solid ice with barely any snow at all - nice little scrape for the first time of board-on-feet this year! The Arare piste was not actually as bad as expected, with only patches of scratchy ice, and Simon even managed to get lots of side-of-piste jumps in. Crot (the ‘home run’ down to Les Prodains car park) is also passable, as long as you watch out for rocks on the piste - usually a late-season feature.
