It really is a balance enjoying a great night out and a day on the slopes with sleep ,and yet again we got the balance a wee bit wrong another late night and late rise ! yet again it was an 11am start on the slopes , we set off with a plan to ski all the slopes at the top of the solaise and over the ridge down into fornet to meet up with joyce allison and the kids for lunch .We are hitting some fantastic weather no fresh snow which is always welcome but glorious sunshine cloud free low temperature especially at altitude the snow and slope conditions are fantastic unless you hit a shaded icy part ! but generally we had a fantastic morning early afternoon ski'ing , the chairlift up and over from solos top fornet is awesome you go right over a jagged peak with huge drops either side of the ridge pinnacle ! a spectacle on its own , Once into fornet we done a few nice runs and headed to some bubble cars we were the group of 4 waiting to get on the bubble car the other groups in front of us were sitting in carriages .there was a screech a clatter and the bubble that had just left the enclosure swung around like mad the operator re'set the engine and everything seemed to be back operating but nope ! 3 bubbles backed up not moving and full of people with their skis outside the cabin weren't moving ,the upshot of it was the bubblecar was shut for the day the people stuck all the way up the mountain had a long wait to get off , we were all told in french that the bubble cars are shut and we had to change our choice of route and head over to the chair lift ,a short run at the end and on to a poma we rarely do poma's in the alps !but it was all fine and before long we were all down in the tiny village of fornet where Joyce Alison and the kids had taken the bus from town to meet us for lunch , and a lovely lunch it was I ordered the plate du jour and it was fab, a ham hock with a bowl of lentils . after lunch ali decided his legs were tired he was going to go back into town on the bus with the girls and change his skis have a sauna , its fair enough i don't think ali is liking freestyle skies , he certainly aint using the freestyle skies how they are supposed to be used none of us are .and To be fair we all chose freestyle ski's this holiday and I've practiced some pirouetes and played skiing backwards but its not what we do and we would all probably benefit more from a normal pair of good carvers . I am personnaly waiting for a weather report to decide, so if we get some fresh snow i may change to off piste skies or all terrain skies .
ali left with the girls and kids and we headed back up to the fornet ski area ,the bubble cars were still off, so we had to use the poma's and had a very difficult but enjoyable red run down to the solaise chairlift ,some fantastic runs in glorious sunshine our maximum speed was 48mph ,and it seemed we spent so much time on chairlifts and bubble cars and so little time on the slopes .possibly due to just moving too fast between runs ,
Bob left us to do a short off piste run to the back of our apartments and me and cammy skied as far as we could toward town heading to la petite danois we got a row from a french man for skiing on the main road ! but we were in perfect time for happy hour two for 1 beers , me and cammy had 1 beer and alison joined us then ali and the local band the killer bees kicked off at 5 , but we were home to the apartments as promised for 6:30pm for joyce's fantastic cottage pie and veg an excellent end to our days ski'ing
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