Friday 15 April 2016

Ski Touring in St Jean de Maurienne, French Alps: 18 days of blissful outings!

I know, it's been a very long while since I have posted anything on the blog. Not even my recipes made it there even thou I still had a few to post and pictures to add. What can I say, with the ankle accident while in Reunion Island in November, quitting my job on our way back and London's weather, it was hard to write anything "inspiring"!!!
And so with 5 additional kilos from not being bothered to do anything but eating crap and sulking, Michael and I made our way to St Jean de Maurienne, France for 3 weeks of Skimo, in the hope to get this sulking disappear with the sweat of hardworking outings.
And let me tell you after 18 of them, good food, excellent weather and company, it worked! Back to my old self! Just take a look at the pictures below and I dare you to  tell me you won't want to join us next year ;)

Michael's dad loves to skimo and was our guide for most of our outings. So that's him at the front in most of the pics ;)

St Jean de Maurienne is 2 hours away from Geneva Airport, and is the perfect location to be based as you have the Belledone Range, Vanoise Range and  Maurienne Valley all for yourself! But with ski touring, no need to buy an expensive ski pass when you can just go up there for free (albeit your sweat!) and if you do want to downhill ski, our favourite familial station Les Karelis has plenty of nice ski slopes without the crowd!

So enjoy the pictures and let me know if you need a hand to plan your next trip to the French Alps!