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29th March 2014 Skiing: Super Collet Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny periods Max Speed: Distance Covered: Friday 28th March We had a lazy relaxed start to the day and even did our exercises for the first time in a week! Nobody arrived to start the lifts until just before 9 so we had the place virtually to ourselves. The weather is glorious and the pistes looked lovely! After breakfast we walked along the tree lined road up to Super Collet. We could hear birds but didn’t see hardly any – the only other thing you could hear was the snow dripping from the trees in the sun! We couldn’t really find any information up there but the area is surprisingly high and larger than we thought. Shame about the dump of a town at the bottom because all the higher area is really nice. Up at Super Collet there was a hire shop, a restaurant and a lift pass office which was completely shut up. It wasn’t until we returned to the van and I went and asked in the small restaurant here that we discovered that the only place to buy a lift pass is in the town at the bottom but that the lift man here will let you up the drag lift to ski down to buy one. We have decided to ski here tomorrow providing the weather is good. We had our lunch watching the few skiers and snow boarders come down to the lift in front of us. The scenery is very beautiful:) Went for another walk later in the afternoon. There’s an interesting piste at the end of the car park which isn’t in the piste map so we walked down it but it is a dead end! Came back through the car park and found the debutant raquette walk which nobody with racquettes had walked, only boots. We walked the circular walk through the trees which was very nice. Earlier in the day we had watched a couple walking with very small children looking lost up at Super Collet. They then appeared where we are walking down a red piste still looking lost. They hung around for a bit and then walked out of the car park behind the van. We saw their foot prints on the circular walk too but they then veered off up away from the path so goodness knows where they ended up. Their little boy had started whining when they were down near us! We watched the sunset again but not as good as last night. When we got back to the van another camper (white elephant style) appeared and parked a little way away from us so we are not on our own tonight:( Saturday 29th March – Skiing ***** sunny periods There was a lot more activity in our car park this morning! It is big club day and volunteers were arriving from 7.30 to set up the slalom course on the black which leads down into Pre Rond. We got ready quickly and made the most of our ski in ski out parking place by heading straight for the drag lift to take us up to Super Collet where the cash office was open and we bought a morning lift pass including insurance for us both for 49 euros. We wanted to make the best use of the snow so thought we would go down into the horrible high rise village of Malatrait first. It is surprising really because this is where all the accommodation and shops are but there is only one lift out of there and one run in – a lovely wide green. Did the runs down there and to the Grand Paul area first thing then moved to the lifts and runs out of Super Collet which are a lot higher. Les Plagnes is at 2100m, the scenery is fantastic and there were people walking away into the distance too! The blue from there back down is the best run in the whole area:) Amazingly it is so easy that you have to slalom around the 2 year olds up there with their parents! There were lots of little children with their mum’s and dad’s today – that’s the best thing about skiing on a Saturday, it’s not that busy but you see lots of local life:) There were at least two clubs doing slalom racing on the steep slopes and catering tents set up in at least two places on the piste. There was also some kind of staff bbq at the very top. Maybe because it is the end of their season next week?? We ended our 5 hour session by going back to Pre Rond via the black run Aigle and going back up to do that one again on what is possibly the most tricky drag lift we have encountered – the piste basher doesn’t bother to do the top so it’s like an off piste lift AT 60%!! Skied back to the van and had our lunch watching the many people who had come up for the afternoon – the car park was double parked in places! Amazing how so many cars can lead to so few people on the piste – we had some of them to ourselves! After lunch we packed up and drove down the mountain towards Chambery which although a big road took us through a very nice gorge:) Stopped at a Lidl we passed to get a few bits and pieces and had a look through their 1 euro box sale! Only got a couple of things but it was nice to have a rummage! Drove on to Aix Les Bain on Lac du Bourget. We thought we would park in the camper van aire which we discovered when we came in January. Then there was only one camper van in there but today it was absolutely jam packed so we are cheekily parking in the promenade car park which was where we stayed last time. We had a cuppa and a biscuit sitting on a bench on the prom feeding the sparrows crumbs. Went for a walk along the prom to the left of where we are parked which is very nice, a lovely avenue of plane trees (looking quite severely butchered at the moment but they will look nice when they get some leaves!). There was a man flying a model aeroplane right over the lake, really high and doing acrobatics! Planes from chambery were taking off and landing and there were also bats flying round as it got dark. Another great but exhausting day! |
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