This morning we headed up to Les 7 Laux ski resort. With Tot nursing a bad back and me still feeling yesterday’s effort from helping a neighbour move furniture, we didn’t get going until around 10:30.

Saturday at Valloire was one of those pleasingly quiet ski days that feel better than the forecast or the piste map might suggest.

Day trip to the 7 Laux with skimania from Lyon to show the mates my local ski area.

We decided to head up to the Sept Laux despite the holiday crowds.

Last Sept Laux of the holidays and first of 2026. We skied fairly cool as the snow was pretty hard in places but if you ski from the top of the Oursiere to le Pleynet it is grand.

I'd skied a bit on the sept laux pistes yesterday when I was skitouring and things didn't look that great.

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.

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.