We have had even more snow, so much that the torch lit descent and fireworks on New Years Eve got cancelled. That was a real shame as its a highlight of the festivities. However safety comes first and we realised it was the right decision. We had over a metre a half in our Village within 48 hours. Up above 2000m they had over 2m. Conditions for the holidays have been fabulous.

We had a great New Years Eve and skied the next day with sunshine. Its a record amount of snow here in the Tarentaise Valley for this time of year. The powder days have been frequent , although we have not seen much sun.

Snow clearing has been a daily event and the snow ploughs out every day too.

The link to Italy from La Rosiere has opened for the first time today and during the past week Val and Tignes have been on LOCK DOWN , with the road up to Val actually closing one day.

The girls are back to school now and we are settling back into a routine. Fi is skiing with the school every afternoon this week so we are helping with that.

Here are a few pics from the last 2 weeks.

 

 

 

Well we have had the best start to the season in a lot of years, probably 14 actually. We had not very much snow at all in the Village until Dec 7th 2011, but still skied in Val D'Isere and Tignes which is a short drive away. Then on the 7th it came, and kept coming, resulting in about a metre in 36 hours. This has given us a great base.Then throught the past 2 weeks its snown on and off, along with the odd bluebird day (blue skies and sun) making conditions amazing. The pistes are Superb , no ice in sight , and the Powder has been light due to cold temperatures at night.

Today it started snowing at 4am this morning and has forecasted nearly another metre for this week. We still have availability in January and have discounted our prices so its the perfect time to come.

We have had a fabulous Xmas with The Hancocks and the Thackrays, 2nd year with us at Xmas time and it couldn't have been better, thanks guys. New year is now upon us and we are looking forward to hopefully skiing the torchlit descent this year, and then the firework display in the Villaroger, which is the best in the Valley.

We are off to ski more powder again in Villaroger with lunch at La Ferme more than likely.

Sainte Foy still has the 16 euros day pass offer on for skiing Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday with production of the Super U voucher from the supermarket, so thats the bargain of the season again.

Happy New Year to you all and will post some photos soon!

We skied on Tuesday 29th November in Val D'Isere. The conditions in La Fornet were very good with well groomed pistes and good snow cover. The pistes were empty as you can see on the photos, so we had a great day. Once again Tarentaise Valley is the place to be at the minute in the Alps for guaranteed skiing!

Here are a few photos from Tuesday!

 

 

Snow is forecast for this weekend , and next week which will be just in time for our first guests arriving.

We have got some new Xmas lights in the village here at Le Loissel, very exciting !

The wine arrives tomorrow so we will have a busy afternoon .

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