Let's see - it was my second day of skiing in the trois vallees today - and I tried to really give it today. My knees and thighs are sore as all hell, but I learned how to keep my knees together while turning, and I'm now signifigantly faster on my skis than Tim is with his board.

Our big goal for the day was to make it from Meribel to Val Thorens - a journey of about two hours each direction made by lifting and skiiing into the next valley over. We spent most of our day on the backside of the Meribel Valley, going towards St. Martin.

Towards about noon, we made it to the top of Val Thorens, 3030m (11000 ft), just long enough to look cold and feel like we were going to be blown off the mountain. The descent was onerous, to say the least, as the clouds had moved in and the lighting changed to flat - making it impossible to make out the contours of the snow.

Shortly after making it back to the Meribel side - Val Thorens was just too busy, we stopped for lunch at Les Cretes. Fabulous. We had the Tartiflette again, along with a bottle of Evian, a bottle of vin rouge and some double espressos. Again, it was a great meal.



We also went over to the Kart sur Glace tonight - what a riot that was! Twitchy little buggers, though, but at least when I wasn't spinning out I was romping on the British 12 year olds. Haha!