Day 1. It hasn't melted ...

The all important cold white stuff is here. The snowline is high though, maybe 1700 or 1800m. And at the moment, the freezing level is much higher. It was so warm today, i would guess air temp in resort (1800/2000) was 14-15 degrees, with a hot sun. We were sweating buckets trying to put the turns in on the steep. The advantage of the warm weather is that theres some soft stuff around. Its not powder, but if you half close your eyes, keep the tip of the board up, and head down something south facing & off piste...
We headed up to Le Biolley, then down & across Plagne Centre & Bellecote to Roche de Mio. Rich bust his binding so a fix from SkiSet in Bellecote was a relief - theyre not really focused on boarding round here.
We didn't bother with the high point of the Glacier de la Chiaupe, instead following the softer stuff on the blues down the back to Versant. Dropped into a nice tight gully down to Verdons sud, with lots of small, but chunky avalanches.
Back up to Les Verdons then slogged over mixed stuff according to the aspect of the slope - icy then sugary piste & soft then crunchy off piste. Finally blasted the blue behind Centre back to Plagne 1800, and necked our own lagers cos we couldn't trouve la boozer - have to sort that tomorrow!