With regret we left today Les Menuires and that means for us “end of the season” and for you no more pictures. The season in the 3-Valleys will last 1 week more and for Val Thorens 2 weeks.

Above 2000 meter there is a lot of good snow.  I hope that I gave you during 118 days a honest impression of the weather and the snow conditions and that you enjoyed it. I wish you a beautiful summer and I hope to post again during the season 2012/2013.

To remember the 3-Valleys I have composed a video clip with several restaurants and terraces.  See :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do3kqFhQDhM

Again snowfall during the night and the morning and in the afternoon some sunshine.

Excellent conditions will remain with relative low temperatures and fresh snow every night. It is hard to believe that it is already April.

On the picture you can see the 5 snowlayers that were created during this week.

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Skiing through the cloud tops. The whole morning snowfall and fog.

In the afternoon some sporadic openings in the cloudcover with sunshine. Again a new fresh snow and along the piste Moraine in Val Thorens 30 cm of powdersnow. 

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The day started with fog and snowfall.

At 11.00 hour the sky opened and there was sunshine from time to time. However it was skiing between and through the clouds with sometimes sun and sometimes fog.

Some pistes were excellent, completely flat, hard underground and a toplayer of fresh snow for a fine grip.  

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“Retour du Soleil” :  after 4 days the sun returned.

It was a fantastic sunny day, partly clouded, with well prepared pistes and everywhere fresh snow. 

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The weather differed not much from yesterday. Again dense fog and very good snow on the higher pistes. The world becomes very small while skiing in the dense fog. The only orientation are the poles along the pistes.

Most people suffer from nausea under this conditions. The weather forecast predicted some improvement at the end of the day, but this forecast did not came out. 

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The misery weather continued also today. There is excellent snow on the higher pistes, but the visibility was very poor.

Between 2100 and 2800 meters there was a dense fog and sometimes you could hardly see the tips of your skis. During short periods there was some minor snowfall.

At 16.00 monsieur le Maire André Plaisance of St Martin des Bellevilles opened the children’s festival “ Boule des Notes”. After the opening followed a show :  the slapsticks of Mr and Mrs Boule de Notes, the harmony of the guitarist Pierre Castellan and the magic characters of Act Show will bring you into the Quidams Company and their show : The Dream of Herbert. Five draped silhouettes are coming together. Half-stars, half-humans, they change and transform the site into a milky way.

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A misery day with continuous light snowfall, low hanging clouds and a lot of fog.

The pistes above 2500 meter have nice fresh snow.

Below that altitude there was slush.

It was very quiet and going down from 3000 to 2000 meter there were only 5 other skiers  on the pistes. 

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Bad weather, fog, some light snowfall and a temperature just above zero. 

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Bad weather, fog, some light snowfall and a temperature just above zero. 

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