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Before heading out on my ski tour, I covered around 20 km on the plateau d'Arselle loipe, a bit of a return to Wednesday’s “scene of the crime”.

On the Plateau de l’Arselle the season is stretching on a little longer than usual.

Took the train up from Lyon on Wednesday morning, so I didn’t get going until around 10am.

Normally I've done a month or more nordic skiing  by the end of December but this year there has hardly been any Christmas snow and conditions in resorts that are open are reported as stony and i

Very enjoyable morning cruising around the pistes of Chamrousse nordic park.

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.