SnowSlider - Blogging From the mountains by ise

A quick few hours at Les Bugnenets - Savagnières in the Jura. I’ve got some new boots to try so this is ideal place to try them.

The station is 100% open with all the lifts running and the pistes are in a great condition. It’s a bit heavy off-piste with wet snow and some crust in places.

The size of the car park gives and indication of how big the station is :

Today was actually busy, it’s ski week for some of the schools so there was a lot of groups around but no pressure at all on the pistes or handful of lifts. Quite a nice morning but a shame there was not more sunshine.

There a small station near where I work that I managed to grab a couple of hours at. It’s best known locally as the station that Didier Cuche (Swiss Ski star) is from.

You can see how busy it was, what you can’t see is that it was -10′c at the bottom and a bit fresh.

Snow conditions were really excellent, there’s only 30km of piste but it was all in excellent condition and there was some great powder in the trees.

In fact, with the way conditions have been so far this season it’s about the best piste skiing I’ve had so far.