Last time we visited Autrans in early spring 2003 we had planned to take a trip up into the mountains but failed as we were snowed off, or rather in. This time we were determined and snow was exceedingly unlikely. Bob unloaded Kisbee from the Tandy garage and we set off up the valley on the road signed Sure ski slopes, but any further destination was unknown, as the Carte Touristique I’d picked up from campsite reception just showed a road which ended somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Think perhaps we should have had a better scale of map. Lovely drive along the valley, tree covered mountain slopes rising high on either side, past the ski centre and a few ski lifts until we came to the Tunnel du Mortier (built for the 1968 Winter
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