New snow

Our last day of skiing and we woke to a decent layer of new snow, maybe about 15 cm. The clouds lifted during breakfast and we skied off to Sauze d'Oulx in the sunshine. However I found the new snow to be rather sticky in places, I don't think some of the runs had been pisted properly as this was the second last day of the season. I was talking to an Italian man on one of the chairlifts; he had driven up from Milan for the day because of the unexpected snowfall last night. He told me that they didn't get any snow here until February this year so it doesn't have a deep foundation. He also said that two years ago they got so much snow that the season started on November 30th and didn't finish until May 1st. 

We got some good skiing although James had a fall which hurt his ribs - he says that he thinks they are just bruised but he seems to be in quite a lot of pain. We headed back to Sestriere after lunch, leaving the boys to make the most of their last afternoon on the snow. After handing in our skis to the hire shop, James and I had a drink together in a little bar in the sunshine; lovely. We were a bit alarmed later by the very loud live music emanating from the bar directly beneath our hotel room. It's the only time we have heard it this week - probably because it's Saturday evening. However I'm glad to say that it had stopped by the time we arrived back in our room after a convivial evening in the hotel lounge with some pleasant fellow skiers. And now we are getting ready for bed because we have an early pick up tomorrow morning.