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The only good day of the week was an excuse to take the morning off work to do some chores (cake baking !) and get in an early lunch nordic ski at Chamrousse.

It has been quite a while since I've skied the main pistes at Chamrousse.

Difficult xc skiing at the moment, it is either too hard or too soft and there is a lack of snow below 1400 meters. I'd skied Chamrousse at the start of November, nearly 5 months ago.

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 little trip to check the snow conditions.

I wanted to cover all the pistes today which I did.

As junior was ice driving at 1650 I decided to test the link between the two parts of the resort. It is a bit rough as it is a shared path with walkers etc but okay on skating.

Back to Chamrousse for an early ski (started at 9am) before the next big storm shakes things up. I did 4 loops of the Lievre Patineur.

Chamrousse nordic park had opened, then closed again following the foehn. Earlier in the week around 20cm of fresh snow had fallen, this had been followed by anticyclonic conditions.

A false good idea going to the Arselle after a super-hot February (one of the hottest since 1900). I actually had to skate all the way down the descent of the normally superfast Astragal.