Thursday

Where has the week gone? Ian't believe tomorrow is the final day of week 1. It seems most of us had a good day today with most doing something new. The beginners did the Gentiane lift and came up to the Cretes restaurant. One managed to ski there from the red eggs, the others came up in the White eggs. The top group experienced some off piste tho I gather it was a case of "you want us to go WHERE?" at one point when the instruction seemed to be to jump off the edge of the world!. Caroline & I (with Steve) managed to find our way up to Cretes via the Lutins, Petite Aiguille & Village lifts. In the lesson we managed to ski turns while lifting our inside ski (ok so only a little and briefly, but lift them we did!). We also worked on speed, whooshing down/up in the little valley in the middle of the P etites Cretes - would you believe I was heard to say "that was fun, can we do it again?".

Later on we went up the glacier to see the view and have a drink on the terrace of the restaurant up there. Fuelled by vin chaud, Caroline & I skied Signal with Steve & Richard but were not keen on the state of the path back to the restuarant from the top of the Signal chair - it's a narrow-ish track which is normally fine but today it had large ridges of snow blown onto it creating a switchback course - we managed just about to plough the remaining narrow gulley having negotiated a few humps that we couldn't avoid. All good experience!