Morillon, Grand Massif, 25 March 2005
25th March 2005
When we arrived on Thursday evening it was raining prettily heavily and fairly warm so we had low expectations for skiing. However, the next morning we were sat outside on the terrace at the local bakery in sunshine and the air had a pleasant freshness.
The best snow was always going to be over at Flaine so we skied over there. The rain had fallen as snow somewhere between the 1800m - 2000m mark. So, Flaine had some really nice conditions, some fresh snow on firm base.
Conditions stayed pretty good until after midday, so we headed back down to Flaine for some lunch at the Le Grain de Sel down in Flaine Forum. We’d not tried there before and it turned out to be very good.
On the way back to Morillon the top of the north slopes were quite good but below the 1800m mark the snow was extremely heavy and pretty tiring to push around. Despite this I’d say the base is still pretty good, there’s very few bare patches so if the temperature drops again the skiing should remain reasonable for a little while yet.
I’m not sure when we’ll ski in the Grand Massif again now, we’ve put our flat there on the market and I do not expect we’ll still have it next season.
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