A rapid return trip on the piste of St Hilaire. Quite a lot of debris in places which slows you down. Also quite windy heading out.

Resort DescriptionLans en Vercors is a traditional village situated at the northern entrance of the Vercors plateau (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region) just above Grenoble.

The idea was to tour around the lower part of the domain as the Emeindras descent was too frozen last week for my liking.

After yesterdays partial grooming I had an idea they would finish the job to St Hilaire and so it was.

Les 7 Laux was fully today so we took advantage of skiing the three sides of the mountain.

The cloud level has lowered a bit so le Sappey en Chartreuse was in the sun at midday. Time for a lunch skate up to Emeindras.

After going to the col de Marcieu in the morning - red not pisted, blue and green in thick freezing fog I looked for sun and decided to re-go-out to the Col de Porte which the webcam showed to be abov

A nice little classic tour except for some tricky descents which I can't take with my bad ankle but the snow and sun are fantastic. Great to get out from our Grenoble fog for a bit of winter sunshine.

It was slow going getting to the ski area this am and a big scrum for tickets. The lifts seemed to be opening and closing a bit randomly too.

Last outing with the ski club before Christmas. There is a lot of snow and it was quite soft and cut up in places. A big change from last week's rain but hard going skiing.