We decamped to Vallorcine for Day 3. The pistes offer lots of short climbs and descents to practise Skate one and diagonal stride. Cafe Moon.Tine sells great soups.

General DescriptionNestled at the foot of the Argentière glacier and the legendary Aiguille Verte, Argentière is the home of some legendary mountain guides. Its baroque style church is remarkable.

First day of the BASI Nordic level 2/3 course in Chamonix. Morning spent on classic skis - largely working on double polling technique.

Junior was doing part 2 of his ice driving course so I skied from the center down the blue alpine run at Chamrousse and took the link to the plateau d'Arselle.

A longer tour at the Col de Porte (nowhere else in the Chartreuse has much open). I wanted to cruise around a bit further with the aim of doing a half marathon distance.

Double lunch loop of the nordic trails on classic. Very pleasant to be out of the valley cloud. Not many people around. Rails were a bit frozen.

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.