ski-concierge ski report – Les Menuires

Having caught up on some much needed sleep at our lovely Ski Famille Chalet in the Reberty area of Les Menuires, the skiing started later than usual. The skiing was again delayed by a misplaced print out of the ski hire confirmation (still lost), luckily it didn’t matter as the ski hire shop wasn’t busy. The shop, Sapiniere Sports, was only a 5 minute walk from the chalet, the staff were very friendly and helpful and spoke excellent English, which is good as my French is appalling. With the piste only 20 metres from the shop it was a short ski down to the ski pass office. After a long wait in the queue (and it’s low season) the skiing could commence.

We started off the day taking the Les Menuires chair lift and from the top we skied the nice wide blue run Boyes to the Sunny Express lift. The snow fall from the previous night has placed a nice layer of powder on the piste so the signs were good for fabulous skiing. At the top of Sunny Express there are plenty of options and we took the blue run Petits Creux down to the Becca lift. We then came down the red run named Becca. This run is ideal for anyone wanting to ski their first red run and to be honest I’ve been down steeper blue runs. The remainder of the morning session was spent going up the 3 Marches and down the 3 Marches blue, then heading for lunch in Les Menuires down the red Allamands which joins the blue runs Petits Creux and Menuires.

We ate lunch at the Les Hacienda restaurant located near Roc Des 3 Marches lift. We shared a pizza (the size of a planet destroying space station) and salad, very good value for money at only 21 euros including a beer and a vin chaud.

The afternoon was spent skiing the area between Les Menuires and Val Thorens. First we took the Roc Des 3 Marches lift then skied Petis Creux to the Bruyeres 1 & 2 bubble lift which took us to the Col de La Chambre (2850m). We then skied the long red run David Douillet red to the Mont de la Chambre lift. This takes you to the Col de la Chambre where then skied the even longer 4 Vents red back to the chalet.

After a slow start to the day the skiing certainly made up for it, with the conditions fantastic and predicted clouds never materialised. The forecast for the next few days is similar with blue skies in the morning clouding over in the afternoon, but we’ll keep you updated. The plan for tomorrow is to head towards Val Thorens so if you have any suggestions please tweet them by following skiconcierge.