La vie à la petite ferme: More skiing

I promise I won't do a blog entry every time we go skiing and bore you all to death. But at the moment it is all exciting and new. We moved here because it was relatively more affordable than the Alps and yet still within an easy drive of skiing. We bought the house without ever having skied here, so of course it has been a worry whether the skiing will be good and the terrain varied. Luckly we can be very happy skiing in a relatively small area as long as there is fun and challenging stuff. Runs needen't be long if they are interesting. We also often do the same run again and again with only small variations so don't mind if there is not miles and miles of area to cover.

We haven't covered the whole area yet (piste map), but we have found plenty of interesting skiing so far with trees, gullies, steeps, powder, rock gardens and probably some other things. I think we have been lucky as there is plenty of snow for so early in the season.

The Grand Tourmelet area is made up of two areas, La Mongie and Barèges. In the summer you can drive over the pass between the two, but in the winter the ski area is on the road, so you can approach from either side but not drive through. La Mongie is the area closest to us and where we drive to. There are chairlifts up to the pass from each side allowing you to go between the areas.