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.

Traditional end of season at les Arcs. We didn't ski the whole 4 hours of our lift pass as I'm still recovering from my January accident but we were not far off.