It’s no espace killy
On Sunday we mentioned we were thinking of going skiing and Pompeyo immediately said he’d go too with his wife Carmen, and he’d give us a lift.
Thursday and Friday are public holidays but we had Wednesday off too and so we would probably avoid the crowds.
We went to Fuentes de Invierno (The winter springs) which is Asturias’ biggest ski area (update: it’s not the biggest it’s just the newest).
That’s not saying much, it’s got 15 runs and only 9km of piste. But it’s an hour’s drive away and it’s really pretty. We arrived just as the lifts opened and hired some gear and by 9:45 we were on the lift. We got lucky and it was rather good weather, high cloud to begin with and then clear skies.
The snow’s a bit on the porridgey side, it is coming to the end of the season after all, and the bottom of the resort is quite low. We did pretty much everything except the two black runs. Some of the pistes are a bit narrow, with entertaining drop-offs on one side. I wouldn’t enjoy it if there were too many people. Luckily León’s ski area, San Isidro, is just 1km away and that’s where many more people go, it’s much bigger.
Still, it’s fun. It’s no Park City and it’s about the size of a nursery slope in Espace Killy but we can’t get to those places… and we can get here. And at the end of the day, the smiles on our faces were what mattered.
We stopped when the snow started to get quite sticky and were in time for a leisurely lunch of stuffed potatoes and chicken (whole boiled potates stuffed with cheese in a slightly hot sauce, why didn’t the Irish come up with that one, it’s brilliant!) in Felechosa.
Tags: mountains, skiing
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