Mountain Adventure Holidays
Another Blue Sky Day
What a fantastic start to the season in the Alps - waist deep powder in the mountains and searing blue skies to dazzle even the most jaded eyes! It must be the best early season snow in ChamonixFrance for at least ten years, or certainly that seems to be what my memory is saying.
The Grand Montets and Les Houches ski areas are already open and the squeals and yells of delight can be heard all over the valley. The other ski areas are gearing up to open this coming weekend on the 22 December at Flegere, Balme and Brevent.
The Nordic ski tracks in Chamonix are in excellent condition right now and I had a fabulous time this week when I managed to get my first cross country 'skate' session done. A real joy to be cruising with light ski gear in a snowy wonderland and great to remember what a lovely way it is of travelling across the landscape. I am not suggesting you need to be an Olympic athelete to try it, but I have given a link HERE to a great film of atheltes 'skating'. We take a much more leisurely approach at Tracks and Trails.
The other style is of course 'classic' cross country which is more like the traditional running motion, but with skis on! This is also done on the same cross country ski area/track and literally runs along side the skate area.
We should also be set for an excellent snowshoe season as the forests and high meadows and tops are absolutely covered in a deep blanket of power snow.
Today I was checking out the Samoens area for our snowshoe week starting 13 January and it's looking good! Pines coated in crystals, the cliffs shining with ice, and the mountains sparkling as far as the eye could see. The full itinerary is HERE if you fancy joining us. We already have five people booked and it should be a good group.
We have more snow forecast over the next few days so I will be spending more time digging out the car!
Best wishes for Christmas
Lindsay