On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:34:49 +0100, Ace squeezed
out the following:

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:47:50 +0000, in
, Colin Irvine
wrote:

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:53:03 +0100, Ace squeezed
out the following:

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:23:49 +0000, in
, Colin Irvine
wrote:

had a long trek from Flaine back
to Samoens one day when weather closed in to 20 ft visibility!

You got back though, which is the main point. It's a fair drive round
in a taxi if you screw up completely.

Indeed. Thankfully we'd already done the return trip the day before so
knew what to look out for. I was hard pushed, however, to explain at
one point why the piste markers that emerged evey so often out of the
gloom had, with an increase in steepness, suddenly changed from blue
to black. Luckily Pat believed me that all the blacks were easy that
far down the slope!

That'll have been you taking a wrong left turn off the Dahu blue onto
the bottom of the Marmottes black, then. Fortunately it's not at all
black at that point, more of a blue-ish red really.

Quite.

The blue run can
actually be a lot worse at the point where it dog-legs left back on
itself just before reaching the Gouilles lift, so you should tell Pat
that you were taking the easyier route down without too much untruth
:-)

Oh I showed her the next day (which was glorious sunshine) - and she
was convinced!

--
Colin Irvine