Day7 our last day on the slopes

We were all up fresh from a long nights sleep, only to discover the weather was ghastly ! Our last day on the alpine slopes until next year was looking miserable ,there was a lot of low cloud the rain was pouring down with a fair wind pushing it hard at an angle ,the normally nice view from our balcony became a miserable outlook onto a dull wet grey day.
We had our breakfast checked the weather report (it was gonna be like this all day ) so we decided no point sitting around reading all day on our last day ,we felt we should give it a go and headed out around 10:30 to collect our skis and head up .its very sad to see this beautiful snow that had covered the lovely town of morzine when we arrived ,was almost being washed away in front of us as we walked through the town all the roofs where pouring water from the gutters and the streets were mini streams of what was once beautiful soft white snow but now just cold running water.
Once we collected our skis we had a look around the valleys to see which area was likely to be least dull and perhaps slightly sheltered from the wind ,the le get area looked about the best of a bad bunch ,I had wanted to sit in the fun train and go up the super morzine bubble cars to the slopes at that side of the valley but that was not an option today, it was totally covered in low cloud and the wind and rain were hitting that side of the valley, so we went up the le pleney cars then straight up the nearest chairlift from there in the hope that hight would bring snow instead of rain (it didn't ) the first slope we went down was an eye opener the snow was mush and acted like a brake when you tried to make a turn the wind and rain lashed against us we made our way down to the next chairlift, as we huddled together on the 3rd chairlift of the day hoods up drips of rain dropping of our clothing it became obvious that even with our high spec outdoor clothing we would all eventually get very cold and wet, the next couple of red runs were surprisingly pleasant to ski on if it wasn't for the driving rain. The final straw came when alistairs sallopettes started leaking at the groin and his already cold damp bum started to get water running down the inside of his leg, and that was it! We skied all the way back down to morzine over the long green bridge one last time and shook wet cold gloved hands at the bottom to mark the end of our ski'ing for 2013.
The town was busy with other skiers who had obviously done the same as us, it was too early for our usual bars so we opted for a restaurant for lunch and a few beers, Ali ordered the bacon burger, Bob went for steak and chips I had tartiflette they were all very good sized plates I seriously struggled to finish mine along with dinner we had 3 pints of grolsch €95 all in
Ski'in finished lunch done it was far too early to start on the beer so we opted to get milk and bread from spar and head back to the apartment ,have a snooze ,then get packed ,cook dinner ,clean the apartment,have a shower. Then we can head out for beers early not too worried about getting organised for 09:45 pick up tomorrow morning.