a different kinda mountain

I spent this past weekend skiing in La Clusaz, in the french Alps!  So gorgeous. I might have been dreaming.  It was so crazy, amazing crazy.

Megan, Sima, and I: ready to go!

The ski resort was HUGE! Just in La Clusaz, there were three 6,000-8,000 ft peaks (for comparison, Mt. Rodgers, the tallest in VA is about 5,800ft), and each of these peaks were definitely bigger than the entire Beech Mountain Ski resort. By far. it was just huge. I think you could go all day without doing the same track twice...haha if you're cool enough to handle it.

I love skiing in good ole VA mountains, but skiing here was a completely different ballgame! I think a black slope at Beech Mountain would maybeeeee equal a blue or red here! For all you non-skiiers out there, green<blue<red<black. 

view from our lunch spot

Normally, "whimp" is not a word that I typically use to describe myself. Hahaha, but standing at the top of one of the red slopes and looking down....I dont remember the last time I was that scared!! 

But I lived! :-D

and got so much better at skiing!

The snow was pretty icy, but it was really warm and sunny. At lunch time, we skiied a bit off the slope and chilled out under this tree in the sunshine and looked out over the mountains while munchin' on our little french sandwiches. 

drop off.  that would scare you too, yea?

go magz.

Streets of the little ski town

Incredibly tired, we went back to the chalet (french word for wooden cabin-like house) and made some crepes! a crepe is basically a really really thin pancake. really thin..like paper thin. no way you could put chocolate chips or blueberries in it. This comes after its cooked...you fill it with jelly or nutella or other yummy stuff. But anyways I was really proud of myself for learning to flip one! haha.




Not wanting to pay for a second lift ticket, Megan and I decided to go cross country skiing the next day! CC skiing is kinda like a cross between snowshoeing and ice skating...haha except on skis, if that makes any sense at all. :)

Apparently XC skiing is really popular here! They had all these spiffy little manicured tracks just for skiiers. It was really fun, and of course the view was gorgeous.