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22nd March 2012
Skiing: Chamrousse Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: Sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered:
Thursday 22nd Mar.2012 – ski *** and walk ***** sunny
The skiing etc is beginning to take its toll on our poor old legs :( so our
plan was to be on the first lift to make the most of the best pisted snow
and then come home for lunch. All this was achieved and we were skiing down
our first runs before 9:30 :) the only problem being the poor condition of
the runs now that all the fresh snow has gone leaving an icy, bumpy base
and not much fun to ski :( We again covered all three ski villages and we
did find patches of good snow as the temperature rose. The cloud then came
over and it was breezy at the top so we decided to call it a day but not
before we acted like a couple of kids and had a run down on the boarder and
ski cross runs which was great fun :) We made it to the Sherpa at mid day
for bread then back to the apartment to pack a picnic and after a short
rest we donned our walking boots and with ski poles in hand we set off for
the Lac at 1:15. What an adventure we had although we only covered 3 to 4
miles we were out for four hours and this was some serious mountain
walking, up steep narrow paths several feet deep in snow following the
signed way and the tracks of long lines of snow shoers that passed us on
the way
up !!! We really could have done with some snow shoes but managed okay in
walking boots and only disappeared up to our knees a few times!!! We
stopped for our picnic by a small snowy waterfall surrounded by lovely
green pines and a deep blue sky – perfect :) We made it the small Lac
Achard but not before and enthusiastic French lady snow shoer insisted on
taking several pics of us!!! I stood on the frozen Lac and then we set off
on the trek down, a different way to the way we came. We took our
binoculars but birds were few and far between but we have added to our list
today with Ring Ouzel and a Nut Cracker :) So another top day even though
the skiing was far from perfect the walk was amazing you had to pinch
yourself that you were there!!! That’s all for now, a hot bath awaits to
soak my weary limbs!!!
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