Meribel 19-21 January 2023 Part 3 - Mont Vallon & Val Thorens - Days 6 to 8 Return to Snowboarding Home Page

Riding Day 5 - Mt Vallon & Val  Thorens - Bluebird

 
  

A chance to lay down some S's en route to the Mont Vallon lift...

 

Hard to get up if you tumble...

 

 

John...

 

Steve...

 

Off piste off Mt Vallon...

 

 

The yellow dot is a French guy who'd been looking for his ski for an hour - I did offer to help, but he wasn't too happy...
 

 


 

 

 

Phil, Steve & John in -20 degrees at the top of the Cime Caron cable car - it felt like my eyes were freezing riding...
 

 

 
Fantastic runs down...
 

 

That powder-smile again...

 

Another lap up the Cime Caron cable car - sun peaking out over the cable car station at the top (through the only bit of non-scratched window)...

 

 

At 3200m looking down on Val Thorens at 2300m...
 

Me at the top...
 

 

Freezing the fingers taking shots in the wind...
 

 

Steve taking a breather...
 

 

Riding Day 6 - Meribel

Day 6 was another clear blue sky morning, I have to admit that I had accumulated a few aches and pains by the morning and we were happy to find pleasure in the Meribel valley slopes.

Having to go slightly further afield off-piste to get the deep untracked loveliness...
 

 

 
 
This shortish chairlift which gave access to very close to the apartment at Le Hameau, also had ridiculous amounts of sections of untouched powder...
 

 

Some weak clouds appeared in the afternoon, but the visibility and snow were great to the end...

 

Travel home day

Photos of the apartment - cosmic panda in the dining area...

   

   

Waiting for our planes at a chilly Grenoble airport - we'd got through as the first coach in and avoided some of the departure hall craziness...