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| Husky dogs with their sledges returning from an outing |
Since the
last entry and commenting about blue skies they have mostly left us, we had a
lot of rain a few days ago which was meant to be snow at higher levels, and
indeed fell on us as snow when we went for a quick skin up a slope where all
the dog sleds go, though when we went looking the following day there was no
sign of fresh snow, just heavy, lumpy old snow, less lumpy than before as the
rain had smoothed some of them out, but even so.
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| Friendly black cat comes over for some fuss |
Skiing has slightly lost its
edge, not completely, but cloudy slopes with heavy snow and, over Easter, lots
of people are not our favourite. We went out yesterday to Bellevaux to look at
some via ferratta, new since we were last here. We popped in to the tourist
info where she gave us some useful info, but did tell us they weren't open till
the 15th April. Having spent a few minutes talking to the friendly black cat
who came trotting up for some fuss we walked up to have a look.
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| Reading about the Via Ferrata, the start with staples and wire just to the right |
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| The waterfall Via Ferrata |
We could see
why they are closed for the next couple of weeks, one was dripping, one criss
crosses a very full waterfall, the other may have been OK and even had people
on it! They look very exciting though, so we will be heading back.
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| Here's one of the information boards. Can you see the left hand picture of two people crossing a rope bridge over the waterfall? There are apparently seven crossings as you ascend. Looks fabulous! |
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| The 'Torchon' ski lift heading up towards our resort |
Having
driven as far as the village we thought we'd better go a little bit further to
find the ski lift where you can join our local circuit half way round, just
because. It was very strange seeing it from the other end, suddenly becoming
aware of the absolute lack of snow except on the pistes, and that looking a bit
tired. We then set off to do the 45 minute return journey round the mountain,
knowing that if on skis the direct route would have taken no more than 20 mins!
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| A skiing day out. This is from the Pointe de Nyon and looks down into the Valley de la Manche and the ski tour day we did in February. I've marked our route of ascent (right) up to the Col de Cou and our ski descent from the Fornet Col on the left in a thin red line |
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| Spring flowers poking through the cold earth |
Our focus
has changed slightly as you can see, we still expect to ski a bit more, we've
done a little skinning for exercise, so there may be a little more of that, if
it would just brighten up we would be climbing at the crag. In the meantime B
has spent a long time playing with the blog, enabling easier searching,
apparently, though I think he's spent a long time reminiscing which is OK too!
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| Warmer weather means windows open... |
He's done some drawings for Rob and Alex and their new extension, we haven't
done as much Spanish as we should have, I've spent loads of time feeding cats
and fussing Groucho who likes the warmer weather as with the door and window
open she feels quite entitled to wander in and have a look around till one of
us moves too quickly! Both Callico and Whitey look very heavy with kit, in fact
haven't seen either of them today, if they get a move on we may have whole
families coming down for biscuits before we leave!
Are we still
loving it? Yes.
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| And doors open.... |
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| This is just about OK.... |
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| But this isn't!! |
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| Happy cat gets a treat |
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| Little Gizmo paid us a visit |
2 comments:
Very much like the very efficient new look blog- I too had a good reminisce as I looked around. It will be good when finished- well done! X
Having a catch up on your posts. The cat situation seems to have come on leaps and bounds! And the food you cook in that shed (most recent blog 11th April), sounds amazing.... xx
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