• Our GPS track from Day 1 at Les Deux Alpes. 67km, apparently!

  • A skier who may or may not be Rachel

  • Rachel admires the sunlit slopes

  • Pretty views from Les Deux Alpes

First days at Les Deux Alpes

This year’s teaching-has-finished ski trip is to Les Deux Alpes, mainly because we found an astonishingly cheap deal for a week. We arrived saturday afternoon, so the first ski day was sunday. The lower slopes are pretty bare, but thankfully the resort goes up to a glacier at 3400m and there’s plenty of nice snow up there.

Our GPS track from Day 1 at Les Deux Alpes. 67km, apparently!
Our GPS track from Day 1 at Les Deux Alpes. 67km, apparently!

As you can see from our GPS track, the first day we had a bit of a tour of the area. We didn’t quite ski every open lift, but we certainly gave it our best shot. The area has loads of blue runs, which suited us on our first day warmup, but there are also enough reds and blacks to keep us occupied later in the week.

Pretty views from Les Deux Alpes
Pretty views from Les Deux Alpes

Rachel has been skiing well – I haven’t been shouting instructions nearly as much as last year. She’s also lost her habit of skiing uphill! I think I’ve finally convinced her that isn’t fun without skins.

A skier who may or may not be Rachel
A skier who may or may not be Rachel

The weather on Sunday was gorgeous, with bright blue skies. Today hasn’t been quite as good, and we spent the morning trying to ski in the gap between the low cloud and the higher cloud, but happily the cloud cleared in the afternoon. Not so happily, the warm temperatures have been triggering small slab avalanches, and at one point there were no open runs from the top end of the resort back towards the village due to avalanche danger – we had to download on the telepherique.

Rachel admires the sunlit slopes
Rachel admires the sunlit slopes

5 thoughts on “First days at Les Deux Alpes”

  1. We pretty much do have the place to ourselves. It’s astonishingly quiet this week. We did queue for a lift yesterday morning, but it was the lift up from the town right at opening time.

    As for the golf flags, I’m a little confused as well. The only thing I can think of is that those are places we stopped for a particularly long time. I have to say, the hardware of our i-gotu GPS tracker is great, but the software definitely looks like a friday afternoon job. I keep telling Rachel I’ll write something better…

  2. Lots of sun and avalanches/avalanche cannon were in evidence in the Galtur (Silvretta) region towards the end of the week. It was like a summer holiday by Friday 😀 (Blog to follow.)

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