A bit of spring crust skiing... on New Year's day. Refreeze was pretty good with perhaps 5-10cm of refrozen snow.

Return to les 7 Laux. The roads to Chamrousse and Allevard were partially blocked due to the big storm and melt. We knew it would be rammed and so it was, like a Chinese ski resort.

Pottering around the Col de Porte seeing what the damage is like from the floods. Well things are open and the skiing wasn't too bad but you can't hoon around the place due to frequent blockages.

Skied to the Source de Sire Mouton (col). Second fastest time on the descent, would have been quicker on skate boots and skis and a good ankle.

As the weather was poor took the opportunity to go out and work a bit on technique: badass skate drills, Skate one transitions etc.

Allevard was fully open but not many people around, maybe the effect of Covid although suggestions that people were arriving today rather than Saturday for the holiday week. Not sure why.

Return to St Hilaire for the first time alpine skiing for 3 season, I think. There was no-one here, maybe 10 people skiing in total. A bit sad for the resort but it was Christmas morning.

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.