No ski this weekend so I decided to use a spare hour and a half on Saturday afternoon to ride up and look at the snow conditions on the road to the Col du Coq.

First climb of the Charmant Som since getting back from Cham.

Rapid lunch ski on skate 2 and skate 1. Pretty easy snow in general. Still lots of work to do on skate 2, reasonably happy climbing now on skate 1 although no records.

We headed up reasonably early to the Collet. It was very cold, especially on the Claran lift which was not sheltered from the breeze.

After the morning activity a farewell, then, to the Chamonix tracks with a last skate up to the top end and back.

Morning spent going around the start zone of the cross country tracks demonstrating skate and classic techniques, filming and getting feedback.

I've never tried night ski de fonding before so decided to go out on the Chamonix night skate. I can thoroughly recommend it. There were a lot of people on the 3km "loipe" so you won't feel alone.

Another dollar, another day. Some fairly intense activity, classic striding and weight transfer in the morning. Skating one/two technique in the afternoon with a half hour teaching session.

Went out on classic skis after the course to try and polish off some of the rough edges. Quite a lot of work on technique and we also had to do some instructing.

Things got a bit more serious with more exercises but still some skating around. I went out and did a tour of the red after "work".