It's been a while!

It's been a while;  a full season, many guests, countless breakfasts, cakes and suppers, great snow, bitter cold weeks when your breath freezes, sunny blue sky days, powder days, whiteouts, birthday celebrations, anniversaries, husky races, learn to cross country ski, find new friends, meet up with old ones, bounce with energy, drop with exhaustion!

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It should be spring, the resort should have closed but instead the trees are heavy with snow and the mountains are shrouded.  The lifts are running, the slopes are empty, we should be up there reclaiming the pistes now that all the guests have gone.  But I can't see further than the first chair on the lift, a great, grey expanse of mingled snow and sky, no fun to inch your way down, feeling for dips and bumps, searching for the shadow of another person, such a pity! This was to be our chance to play after one of the best seasons for years. So I'm off to check out the end of season bargains, some new skis maybe?

But then on the 22 April the weather cleared and we hit the slopes, if you know the Flaine bowl it's not so often you get to see it pristine like this with a good 50cms fresh powder and only us locals to enjoy it. A great way to end the season. And those new skis? Yes I got them!