Ski-Concierege ski report – La Plagne day 2

This morning we woke up to a grey day in La Plagne and with clouds covering the higher peaks we decided to head down the mountain to the lower villages. We headed up the Bergerie chair lift, which incidentally was the fastest lift of the day at 10.5mph! We then skied down Trieuse blue run into Plagne Bellecote and from there took Arpette up to L’Arpette (2385m). The Raplat blue run then took us to the first piste marking for the Mont Blanc run, showing it was an amazing 58 markers down to the bottom.

The snow was good with only a few icy patches in places and the long Mont Blanc run took us all the way down into the pretty village of Montchavin (1250m). En route we’d spotted lots of nice looking red runs so took the Montchavin and Pierres Blanches chair lifts back up for another run down again. This time we took the Pierre Blanches blue run from the top which led to the l’esselet red run, a real horror of a red with large patches of grass and rocks that threatened to tear our skis to shreds. Luckily the run wasn’t a long one and before long we joined the Montchavin red run, a fantastic sweeping red and easily everyone’s favourite run of the day. In fact we enjoyed it so much that we decided to do it again before skiing back down to Montchavin itself for a spot of lunch.

We ate lunch at the Creperie Les Cavagnes, situated 50m from the bottom of the Montchavin chair lift. Being typical Brits we sat at a table outside and were impressed to get table service from the very friendly staff. The food was great and very reasonable with a croques monsieur and a diet coke setting us back 9 euros each.

After lunch the weather got worse with heavier snow and windier conditions. After suffering on a particularly cold chairlift up to the Dos Rond (2340m) we decided to head back to Plagne Centre and the shelter of the trees via Plagne Bellecote. On the shushing run down to Bellecote the piste was clear and we managed to clock a speed of 40mph.

We spent the rest of the afternoon going up the Colarado lift and down the numerous blues and red that run down to La Plagne Centre. We hooked up with some friends of different ski levels and spent a very valuable couple of hours filming our skiing and offering critiques, with the blue Capella run being a particularly good run for practicing our techniques.

At the end of the day we headed to Dark Dog bar for some well deserved apres ski.

Photo’s © Arthur Bullard