Wednesday 3 January 2018

Day #2 - NY’s Eve and perfect conditions

We set the alarm for 9am to get a full days skiing in and make the most of the perfect conditions. As expected, it was brilliant sunshine. I was chomping at the bit to get out.

After a quick brekkie we headed to the ski hire. This is unquestionably my worst hour of the whole trip. It’s always a scrum. Once outside we headed onto a simple blue to reacquaint ourselves before taking the Tovier bubble (car) up high. The views were sensational with the boys and J all skiing well and picking up where they left off.

We then picked up a few runs to take us to the base of the La Grande Motte funicular propelling you to 3,300ms and onto the glacier. Up top we picked out Mont Blanc and all the other neighbouring peaks before booting up again. The blue slope though was closed with only reds and blacks open. I could tell that J was not keen being the first day and all so after a quick team talk we decided that J would take Ryder back down to the valley floor mostly on the funicular with me taking the three elder boys down.

It was a dreamlike ski with no wind, perfect snow with a large moon visible just over the peaks of the vista in front of us where the sun was also going down quickly.  It’s rare you get these conditions at 3,000ms plus and often is a tale tale sign of the calm before the storm. Little did we know.

After a nice dinner with Chev and Disco Dave (Hollywood stunt man, no kidding) at the chalet we headed down to Tignes Le Lac centre which is well known for its outside New Years Eve celebrations with resident DJs entertaining the masses. It was one of the most enjoyable NY’s Eve I’ve had in a long long while with J and I necking Champers and the boys also jumping around to the DJ set capped off with awesome fireworks illuminating the surrounding mountains.

A Magical day despite no sleep - boys didn't moan once and just got on with it, Tommy filming a lot on the GoPro.

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