Interseason can be interminable. We’re four weeks in and I’m feeling more sane than I usually do… but the sun is shining and I know that I’ve only got ten days left here.
19-Nov-2010
This morning’s bright sunshine came as quite a shock when I crawled out of bed after 11am. I’m normally an early riser but with two opening parties and last night’s Nouveau Beaujolais, I guess my 10am gym date was never going to happen. The Boyfriend definitely made the right move; home by midnight and up early to ski tour with the boys.
They hiked and skinned up the front face to the top of the Marmottes II lift and skied across and under the DMC. The lifts don’t open until 4th December but the pisteurs are already hard at work. The Boyfriend reports that the pistes have been groomed, packing the early snow to provide a solid base for the season.
15-Nov-2010
Mountain weather at its worst
Category : Alpe d'Huez, Hiking
Today is truly miserable. Maybe it’s the deathly quiet of interseason, the damp cold weather that I hoped I’d left behind when I came to France or just the fact that it’s Monday which is making the day so dreary and endless.
It’s hard to be upbeat when rain is pouring off the roofs and white clouds blow across the mountain, temporarily obscuring my view of sodden brown grass and bare black trees. And to make things worse, there’s barely any snow left in resort to raise the spirits… In fact, it’s so murky here today I can’t bring myself to take any photos… the ones you see were taken yesterday.
05-Nov-2010
According to French weather forecasters, today is the last day of autumn. They’re predicting an extreme change of weather tomorrow that will see us wading through snowdrifts early next week…
Okay, so it’s unlikely to be that dramatic but we have been blessed with a long and relatively warm autumn here in the Oisans region. At the start of half term we received an unexpected dump of early snow, but that’s mainly retreated to above 2600m now, leaving the resorts and the valley warm, sunny and dry.
