Minimum altitude: 968 meters
Distance: 9.4 km
Slope Aspect: South-West
Vertical Climbed: 280 meters (919 feet)
Vertical Descended: 282 meters
I was a bit doubtful as the webcam showed it was a bit grim but things seemed to be clearing toward noon so I headed up. I'd initially wanted to ski les Sagnes - a flat area behind le Sappey but it didn't look great with the fresh snow and not much pisted. Instead I headed up from the drag lifts (which were not running) to Emeindras with the view of skiing the little horizontal piste about a third of the way up. The climb was on lose snow but not too bad to ski, not fast but things rolled along. The horizontal trail hadn't been prepared so the choice was to continue up for another 15 minutes or check out the St Eynard. As I didn't feel there was much to be gains from a climb I descended and skied the back loop to a point where it wasn't pisted then returned via the piste I'd taken at the start. The St Eynard was the best skiing of the day, flat with good glide. At the start of the descent they'd made a loop, clearly with the idea to make a U turn as the descent back to the car park was on thin snow in places.
Pistes prepared this morning with 2-3cm of fresh snow. The St Eynard was the best but the descent back to the teleskis lacks snow in places. 1 or 2 stones under the trees. Quite a bit unpisted despite the claims of 40km open.
