Traditional end of season at les Arcs. We had monster snow fall a week ago but no sign of it now with lots of bare slopes.

We profited from the end of the school holidays to ski all day for 42 euros (weekend price) in calm conditions.

Overview Les Contamines-Montjoie is a ski resort in the French Alps. It straddles the Mont Blanc and Beaufortain mountain ranges.

A little blast around the pistes of Allevard. No real queues for the end of the holidays but quite a few kids groups on the slopes so quite busy. The snow is holding up quite well.

Morning ski at les 7 Laux. Snow is good, a bit thin at resort level where they've not used the snow canons. Not too many people on the pistes as a bonus with just 1 short queue at the Oursiere.

Return to St Hilaire du Touvet for a few runs after it had been shut for a couple of years due to lack of snowLargely seemed to be locals up on the plateau des Petites Roches.

A plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a Renard.

Valmorel is a ski resort in the Tarentaise Valley, located in the communes of Les Avanchers-Valmorel and La Léchère, in the Savoie department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in France.

We decided to head up to the 7 Laux for Christmas day on the grounds that the locals would be eating their Dinde aux marrons and otherwise occupied. It turned out to be a good plan.

First alpine ski of the season. Absolutely nobody around so we managed to cover quite a bit of ground.