Dad and I ski in the morning and then as he has a lesson in the afternoon I go to find Adam who has been riding with some friends that are visiting from Chamonix. I wait at the bottom of the Mossette chairlift and watch Adam finish the end of a long off-piste run, during which he has lost his friends.
The two of us then head over to Linderets where the others are waiting and discuss which route to ski next. I suggest Le Renard (which I did on my off-piste tour) or Satellite. We decide on Satellite however as we traverse across towards it I see that Adam has taken his board off and is walking up the mountain (a route which quite a few others have also walked up). Each time I think we are at the top another hill appears and we keep walking. Near the summit we then walk through deep snow to access some untracked powder.
The top section of the route down is beautiful however we quickly descend through tall trees and the skiable gaps become smaller, the snow heavier and we have the added obstacles of tree wells (tree wells are holes where trees have been covered with snow). Jacky is the first to fall into a tree well and get her board stuck. After she is helped out, with some difficulty, her friend then falls in.
By this point I have taken off my skis (something you are advised never to do but I just can’t find the room to ski here). and a boarder called Ian kindly offers to ride down carrying them. I am now scooting down the mountain on my bottom and I then fall in a tree well, bottom first! Luckily Jacky is nearby and pulls me out. We are all a little fraught and tired by this point. The boys are waiting a little further below for us and then Adam calls to say that we have to hurry as the lifts close in 15 min.
We reach a clearing and are able to put our skis and boards back on and ski down the rest of the way however the route route down to the Ardent gondola is a luge like track that winds around the mountain. By the time we’ve skied to the bottom the lifts are all shut. Luckily there is a ski bus from Ardent back to Morzine and we all pile on and share what remnants of food (old power bars and KitKats) we have on us.
We’ve decided to have a night out tonight so Lucy and Abby make an early dinner of fish curry (a Thai/ Korma hybrid) and Adam creates an original version of Kir Royale with some bubbly that Abby and Carina brought me for my birthday and Ribena! I am brought a glass to enjoy in my bath which feels very decadent.
Our night out consists of Rhodos first for Beat the Barman where Abby wins us our first round, then Café Chaud, the Cavern and then Le Paradis for some dancing. Along the way Edita manages to find some free bread, rolls and pain au chocolat outside a bakery and Lucy lectures some English boys on why it is not appropriate to introduce unknown women to their genitals.
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