Sporting a rather fetching Beckham...!

Considering it hasn't snowed for 2 weeks, things are still going pretty well in Les Arcs. The Planet Subzero housemates arrived last Saturday, so this week has been a whirl of snow, beer, snow, beer and ummm ... more beer.

Everyone's using the time to get to know each other (some more intimately than others!), and the inevitable attack of the clippers has hit the chalet, with Scott now sporting a rather fetching Beckham (and a natives hoody).

We've only had one accident so far (Katie with a broken wrist). Sadly she can't even brag about the near death experience hurtling down that perilous couloir. She was standing still, so busy laughing at someone else falling over that her board just slipped from under her ...

Arc 1800 is heaving with the annual Navy Ski and Board Championships (plus the Cambridge vets), so the Red Hot has been packed every night, and Friday turned into a massive one with Blue Funkt playing live to a very pissed up crowd.

The pistes are all getting kind of patchy (rocks and ice everywhere), although pretty much everything is still open and it's due to start snowing demain. The Aiguille Rouge still has some nice snow up top, and the runs around Vallandry are softening up nicely from about 12. Off-piste is basically a no-go area, although with perseverence, we did lay some first tracks yesterday in pretty soft powder off the top of the Aiguille Rouge.

We just have to console ourselves with the fact that the year it dumped and dumped and dumped, it didn't start until mid January, right? It will come, it will.

Report from Steph Lightfoot - Natives Resort Reporter in Les Arcs

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