We had a vacation mid-winter. Funny really because in France, where we went skiing, January is thought of as an early month in the ski calendar. The ‘little’ resort of Val Cenis was great skiing, after leaving the UK on Boxing Day, the whole family ‘pod’ had to adjust to skiing on some serious ice. The piste was hard and dry and compacted, but it was a great way to regain the skills that had been forgotten from the year before. Easy snow makes you a lazy skier.

Anyway, we went en famille for a skiing holiday and it was fantastic to be together as a group again; it seems to happen so infrequently nowadays and I suppose will occur only less frequently as the years carry forth. After a couple days of ice, we had heavy snows of over a foot overnight and then following that bump-ups of about an inch per day. Snow makes the conditions so different it’s insane, the mountains just transform their style and improve all their opportunities. Oddly enough, despite the heavy snowfalls, the management of the mountain didn’t open all the routes and none of the black runs were available which was a major disappointment, but one that was tempered by the continually changing conditions.

My favorite thing about the whole thing though, the fact that in early April I’ll be on another mountain, just around the corner from where we were this week, skiing for another ten days. Life is good!

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