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Ski Day 2: Fresh snow and last lifts on Mont Joly

Today we skied with Jonathan, Lucy's other half. He took us around the Mont d'Arbois side of things. We warmed up on the run down to L'Ideal chair, then skied off of Mont Joux and L'Epaule for a while and down to Les Communailles for lunch. The rain at village level was light snow higher up and the visibility was pretty poor all morning. After lunch the sky cleared and we skied off of Mont Joly, off piste in fresh snow under the Mont Joly lift; very nice. Unfortunately we'd spent rather too long at lunch and lost track of time. First the Mont Joly lift stopped so we cut short our descent and traversed across towards the L'Epaule lift... Then that lift stopped - dead on time. We were left with a yomp up to the drag lift that takes you up to the top of the ridge where the Mont Joux III chair stops, this lift was also closed, but still running and we rode up just in front of the pisteurs who were sweeping the slopes for strays like us. From there it was a gentle ski down to the Mont d'Arbois base on deserted slopes - things get quiet pretty quickly once the lifts stop... All in all a great day, if a little hectic at the end...