Apart from being dropped off at the totally wrong end of town we managed to get to Sean's without much of a problem. Had to call the driver back and he came within 10 minutes.
On the first day we headed up to Brevent, first up the lift and pretty much had the mountain to ourselves. We did all the runs before lunch time so decided to catch the bus up to Balme and do Le Tour. When we got there the bubble lift was closed due to high winds. We decided to have a spot of lunch then head over to Grand Montets for the afternoon. This video is mostly from that area with some footage of Brevent.
Another early start on day 2 and headed back to Balme in the hope that it would be open... it wasn't so rather than abandon it altogether we caught the bus up to the train station and got the train round to the far end of that area. The second video is the run down from the top of the first lift up to the train station.
Change of plan for day 3, we had never planned to go over to Les Houches but as we had done all the other area's and the fact that the Downhill World Cup was on we went over, got ourselves a 4 hour pass (the pass we had didn't cover Les Houches) and stayed until about 1 PM. I thought this was the best area of the four, long wide runs and very few people considering what was going on. Went all the way down to the bottom of the cable car, through the crowds in the village and onto the bus back to Grand Montets. I must say by this time I was knackered. I only managed one run and a half hearted attempt at the jump and that was it for me. I went back to the cafe and had a coffee while Michael did a few more runs.
At about 3 o'clock I headed down the last run to the bus, Michael was just behind me at the time so after a short wait hopped on the bus back to town.
Instead of going back to the flat and out we decided just to keep going, so with board under arm we headed off for some apres ski.
Really enjoyed the 3 days and made the most of each day. Planning another trip out there at the end of March. Watch this space.
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