Tignes

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On Saturday we had the full day to ski, so we bought a pass that included the adjacent resort of Tignes. Once again the weather was beautiful, with blue skies and temps in the 50s.

The following is the view looking down towards Tignes. Shortly after taking this photo, we went down my least favorite run of the weekend -- effectively 10 minutes of sliding on ice.

Here's a shot of me after we took the cable car to the top of the Tignes resort. The altitude was around 11,300 feet and allowed nice views back towards Val d'Isère.

Both Tignes and Val d'Isère had plenty of areas to ski off-piste. We didn't really take advantage of this, but nonetheless saw a number of spots where some other adventurous souls had blazed their own trails down virgin powder.

Here's a photo that I took as we were finishing up the day. While the snow generally held up pretty well despite the relatively warm weather, there were a number of areas towards the base of Tignes that were pretty slushy (or de la soupe as Emilie would say).

Given the amount of ground that we covered, coupled with the slushy conditions in some areas, we were pretty exhausted by the time we finished. As such, we decided to take advantage of the proximity of the hotel restaurant rather than venturing out for dinner. Thus, this photo that I took from our balcony was the closest that we came to heading back out for the night.