A trip to Le Fournet

Today, on my day off, I enjoyed an amazing ski trip over to Le Fournet.

Le Fournet is the farthest point to the left on the Espace Killy piste map, meanwhile where I live is the farthest to the right.

The gondola back from Le Fournet

For the past month or so I have been desperate to make the lengthy day-trip journey across the Espace Killy and as each Wednesday day-off comes around, I put it off until next week because it seems too bigger treck! This morning however, as I looked out of my window to a clear blue sky, I knew today just had to be the day.

I don't share my day off with many other staff members and this makes finding an early morning ski buddy rather tricky. Luckily though, my friend Andy (who is the hotel's plongeur) finished work pretty early and was keen to get lots of skiing in, so a ski buddy I had found.

After conquering the infamous Face without trouble, we caught multiple chairlifts and drag lifts and found ourselves at our intended destination. Despite the freezing temperatures of -12 degrees celsius and the icy slopes, it was gorgeous weather which made the trip so very worthwhile. 

We decided to stop for some lunch, each ordering un assiette de frites si vous plait and we both enjoyed them in the warmth of the Le Fournet restaurant. 

Inside the restaurant at Le Fournet

Andy and his frites

Once we were truly full from our hot chips, we thought we ought to start heading home. The 2-hour each way trip meant that we didn't have much time to explore the area, but it was a fabulous ski nonetheless.

Lunchtime!

In fact, upon arrival at home afterwards, we were met with questions of "did you go to the glacier just above Le Fournet?"... Unfortunately I wasn't aware there was a glacier nearby and so I may just have to make another trip back in the near future to check it out.

Just gondola-ing

Andy in the gondola

Here is the picturesque view as we skied back from Le Fournet to Val D'Isere, the clouds and blue sky nicely framing the mountains and village below.

On the way back into Val D'Isere from Le Fournet

This week our guests are really lovely and, despite a slight faux pas on my account, our week is going very well. One of my male guests was telling me that his heater wasn't really working too well. I asked him whether he had "had a fiddle with the knob in his room" which, of course, was met with hysterics. Yes, I will be more careful with word choices from now on!

Last week's guests were really fun! We were even lucky enough to be given a bottle of Moet & Chandon as a thank-you and, to be given recognition for hard work just makes it so worthwhile!