Last Friday I was able to take advantage of a rare treat: Crête du Brouffier with new snow in perfect sunny weather, on skis. This because
Dauphiné Libéré reporter Jean-Benoît Vigny wanted to write an article on the new
ski de rando trail recently developed at the Grand Serre resort. Local guide
Mathis Moratthel was showing him the way, and another body was needed to complement the "group".
An hour or so of gentle ascent through woods...
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was followed by an apparently endless slope towards a "receding" plateau
– just as tiring as it was for Juan and I three weeks ago...
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.. an exhilarating descent down the same slope...
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... and a creative, tree-dodging slither back through the forest.
Despite multiple blisters from the hired boots it was a pearl of a day. All the more special because, alas, the weekend that followed was relentlessly grey and wet.
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