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A final day skiing at Les Arcs, conditions are still good and it was a great last day.

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Today was actually my birthday

Up on the glacier at La Plagne there was still an amount of fresh snow, we took a few runs over there and were joined by Chris/Snowcrazy and Matthew for a few runs including a great off-piste run down off the glacier.

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My second day skiing at Les Arcs, the day before it’d rained quite a bit and I’d got fairly wet skiing round Arcs and La Plagne. This turned to snow over night and the first runs of the day with PG, Scarpa and Snowbunny (from SnowHeads) were in fresh snow.

This is a followup to the previous entry. Rob@rar.org.uk of here on MSS and Snowheads had kindly invited me to spend a few days skiing with him in Les Arcs from his apartment there.

Les Arcs was one of the first places I skied in the Alpes about 15 years ago so it was great to go back again. The domain is much extended now of course with the addition on the link to the La Plagne which we took advantage of on Saturday.

The full gallery is here.

We met up with Peter Garwood over at La Plagne on Saturday along with the large camera that’s producing a lot of the photo’s on MySnowSports. Rob is there in the foreground.

I was pretty amazed that the lifts run so late in Les Arcs which allows skiing as the light begins to fade. I find this pretty atmospheric, empty slopes and great evening light.

Even though I’d been before I’d not remembered how stunning the scenery over at Peisy was.

And finally, the lift guys were practicing rescuing people of the lift. It’s reassuring to know they’re well prepared.