Is the snow REALLY that good in the alps?
I’ve been asked this question a few times this week by friends in the UK and here on the continent. The answer is yes. It really is. It dumped for days and days, and now the sun has come out and the temperature’s dropped. It almost seems that there’s more snow now, before we’ve even got to mid-December, than there was at any time last season. And the story is the same all over the alps. So if you’re thinking of skiing but were put off by last season, book a holiday now while it’s cheap.
I’m not going to post a picture of snow - we’re all bored of that - so here’s a view of Les Drus from the top of the Bochard lift. Beautiful.
So we’re up skiing. Come the weekend, most of the other ski areas in the valley will open, but the Grande Montets is open this week already and in true Chamonix style fully tracked out already. You’ve got to love this place for that. Go to Morzine, Flaine, even Meribel/Val D’Isere and you’re be getting fresh tracks for a week after a big dump, but here in the death sport capital of the world - where skiers retire…. unless you start backcountry touring, any lift accessible powder is tracked in hours.
My new, bigger, fatter, hard core skis with proper downhill bindings are brilliant. But unforgiving at times. Stick them in a straight line and they don’t waver no matter how fast I’m booting it, but now and again they don’t react quite how I think they’re going to and at these increased speeds I’m crashing a bit more than usual. I think I’ll buy a helmet this week 
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