Morillon, Grand Massif, 26 February 2005
26th February 2005
This was the first visit to our apartment in Morillon for a month or so; we try to avoid the area during peak times if at all possible. The roads were still busy even on Friday evening though, the French now seem to leave Friday night and drive through the night to avoid the rush on the the Saturday.It’s been pretty cold recently so the snow in the Grand Massif is in quite excellent condition with packed snow on the pistes. Any easily accessible off-piste if totally tracked out through, it’s less genuine volume of traffic but more people traversing for hundreds of meters before falling over and repeating in the opposite direction.
We skied over to Flaine in the morning where most of the terrain seems to be open, in fact cover is quite good and it’s possible to ski between the pistes in reasonable safety.
There’s so little you can say about the architecture that’s not already been said 
From just above the station things do improve a little of course :
We then headed back towards Les Carroz for some lunch at the Bois de la Char, it’s always good in there, the food is always good, it’s not haute cuisine but the service is good and it’s always nice to go.
After the lunch the light was fantastic, in fact it really was the perfect February ski day, cold, clear skies and great snow. The only downside is that the numbers of people on the slopes not in control seems to be steadily increasing to the point where you spend most of the day just avoiding collisions. It must have been horrific during the week when the crowds were there.
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