We have probably had two days of sunshine this December and yesterday was the other one of them. Knowing that the weather will turn bad on Christmas — it has been raining since morning today, the Christmas Eve — we took off the last working day of the year, and […]
We have had (again) a long anticyclonic period that has caused inversion: a low hanging thick layer of clouds blocks cold and humid air near the ground, whereas the air above the clouds is warm and dry. This is very common in this valley at this time of the year. […]
Because of the lockdowns of 2020 we still had two weeks of vacation to spend in the last two week’s of the year. As soon as we learned that there was a de-confinement coming, we booked a week in Les Saisies in Savoie department, where we had already booked our […]
It has been snowing on the mountains recently. Even if the official start of the winter season is about one month away at most of the ski resorts, Autrans on the Vercors declared on Friday that they will open the Nordic skiing tracks for the weekend. We had already decided […]
We finished our Winter vacation testing our new snowshoes in Montagnes de Lans on Vercors. We were quite happily surprised that there was still so much snow, although not perfect for snowshoeing. We walked to Combe Oursière and back, total of 6.3 kilometers with the ascent (and descent) of 263 […]
Living in this valley, where daytime temperatures have been ranging from -2C to +17C in January, it has been a bit hard to imagine that there is a full winter going on just few kilometers out of town and at few hundred meters higher altitude. That’s why we were not […]