Val Thorens - maybe not now quite so snowy as this, but still open
It's the last weekend of the ski season in France with the two 'still open' resorts, Tignes and Val Thorens, ending their seasons at the end of the day on Sunday.
There's been little or no fresh snow for over a week and temperatures have been reaching double digits above freezing at times, but the snow is still seven to nine feet deep or more on the glaciers (Tignes 275cm, Val Thorens 220cm ) so there's plenty to slide on. Snow is forecast for Val Thorens tomorrow.
Val Thorens, Europe's highest major resorts and one of the first to open in France (after Tignes) in late November last autumn, has been maintaining a party mood through May with free concerts in the sports hall every night at 9pm in their Apotheose Days promotion.
Tignes has also been throwing on the festivities and running a promotion offering free accommodation with your lift pass.
Unlike the other major Alpine nations France has no late spring glacier skiing and French skiers will need to hike up, go over the border in to Switzerland, Italy or Austria, or ski indoors on the world's second longest indoor slope (620m) at Amneville in the North East of the country if they want to ski snow again before Tignes re-opens for summer skiing in five weeks on June 15th.