Val Thorens, Thursday

Johan and Annica at the end of the 3 Valleys 2 lift.

Mont Blanc, as seen from the top of the 3V2 lift.

Suisses, my favorite slope in all of the three valleys. It is in Courchevel.

Courchevel airport. Note the sloping runway.

View of the runway from the side.

The Cote Brune lift. This is the last lift you need to take if you're going back to Val Thorens from the other valleys - miss it, and you are officially Stuck In Menuires. I have raced to it so many times that I think it deserves a mention and a picture.

Annica, having retrieved her ski and binding.

My, obviously leading the search for Annica's lost ski equipment.

The ski went from the little hill in the top right, across the ski slope, and down the big hole to the left. (You can see the track it made.)

At the picnic.

Val Thorens, seen from a bit down the valley.

Snowed in car.

After ski.

After ski.

After ski.

John's international cuisine, location 1.

John's international cuisine, location 2.

Val Thorens high street.

For some reason, you can buy a whole lot of Norway shirts at Ski Set at Place de Caron.

Practicing the use of a transciever. (The kind you wear when going off-pist skiing.)

Village in the evening.