Snowfall in France this week has been huge, with some resorts seeing more than 2 meters (6.6 feet) in the last five days. A massive winter storm hammered the French Alps from February 10-13, unleashing monster snowfall that has buried resorts and reshaped the mountain landscape just days before Valentine's Day weekend. Across the Northern Alps - including iconic resorts in Haute-Savoie, Savoie, and Isère - weather stations reported extraordinary snow totals.
Sometimes booking a ski trip means finding the largest possible area to explore and heading there, allowing for plenty of terrain choices, dining options, housing, and general adventure. If you're looking for the biggest resort possible, Les 3 Vallées in the French Alps is the place for you. Les 3 Vallées is the largest interconnected ski area in the world, connecting 25 summits with 161 ski lifts.
Within thirty minutes of meeting Jerome, a short-shorts-clad French dairy farmer, he had shown me his custom-engraved Opinel knife (his name on the handle), introduced me to his family, introduced me to his goats, and then put me to work milking said goats. Frankly, I had never contemplated a goat's udder before. Much less a full one, swollen with milk
One month after it was first detected in France, there are now 51 recorded cases of the highly contagious cattle virus Dermatose nodulaire contagieuse (known as Lumpy Skin Disease) in the French Alps.
