There has been an extraordinary amount of snow in the first half of this season. The photo of Matt and Laura gives some scale to the amount on the hut roof (a picture I posted before but not with anything to give it quite this scale. This is the first week of the French half term and the slopes in any other resort would be packed. As you can see, it’ a bit different here. Combloux (and surrounding resorts here) seem to have an infinite ability to absorb people and leave you to ski empty pistes.

The other photo is of an ‘igloo’. One of 5 or 6 that they’ve created for the first time this year to the side of a lower piste with a board enticing you to spend a night (and 50€) in an igloo. Heated sleeping bags provided, apparently. How do they heat them?