MegèveSki

Week in review: 1

We arrived, unpacked purchased our season passes and started to get to know the local ski areas a bit. The snow's pretty variable; certainly not what you'd call "good", but there is snow and most of the runs are open. The weather has been generally sunny, though we had some fresh snow mid week. Lots of the front side of Mont d'Arbois and Jaillet is turning brown but due to the nature of the underlying mountains (mostly grassy meadows) this isn't as much of a problem as in a resort where the underlying mountain is mostly rocks. The apartment is cool, pretty much what we expected and the walk back from town is long enough to help dinner go down. The TV's a little small, but then so's the lounge, so it's not that much of an issue; the PS2 works, DVDs play and we've started watching Firefly, which is pretty amusing and the plots are even more like those of a role playing game than Buffy. The 0044 SFR SIM works fine but nobody nearby has WIFI we can use :( We still haven't located a cheap internet connection but we haven't tried that hard yet.

Next week we have our first visitors; Michelle's parents and her brother and his wife. They're not staying with us, they have rooms at the Hotel Chalet St George, which is where we stayed when we were here last year. Michelle's mum is having lessons with Lucy for most of the week and the rest of us will probably have some guiding and informal tuition with her at some point. We expect to visit Morzine for a day and perhaps head over to Les Contamines. There's currently no forecast of more snow...