French resorts have been able to make snow this week, but all that may be thwarted by high temperatures in the days to come - the latest update from Telegraph Ski sets out the sorry scene.
Les Arcs is currently registering a feeble 6cm at 1600m and 30cm at the top. A small number of pistes have been opened above 1800 and 2000, but it's all looking very threadbare - see the webcam at Arc 1950 for an illustration.
This has prompted the newly formed Les Arcs Freeski Academy to decamp back to the gym at Bourg St Maurice for its training/auditions this afternoon.
The British students arriving in resort this week - including parties from Bath and Manchester - will not be happy. They will have to make do with going to the cinema, courtesy of this week's Les Arcs Film Festival.
It all adds up to a low key launch for the new "Mille 8" development above 1800, centrepiece of a series of developments for 2014 and 2015.
Across the valley at La Rosiere the resort is "sur les starting blocks", but has delayed opening any lifts until next week.
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| That was then... Above Arc 1800, 20th April 2014 |
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