Val Thorens Video Report: 12th December 2008

From Saulire Piste, Meribel

Imprint: Updated 14 October 2014

Caroline Sayer is back on her skis in the Three Valleys and enjoying a bonus week at the start of the 2008-09 season so much snow has fallen in the run up to the season that the Meribel and Courchevel lifts opened a week earlier than scheduled.

With around 130cm of snow on the summits and around 60cm in the resorts, conditions are exceptionally good for December. It has, however, been very cold.so much so that Caroline has starting seeing mysterious things in the sky.

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