The same piste-bashers and snowmobiles are parked nearby.
Firmly back in his boisterous backyard, Trump was able to appeal to the same off-piste opinion, but without having to incite the usual cat fights between his supporters and opponents.
If you're a beginner, or a cautious intermediate who likes staying in one resort and skiing the same blue and green pistes day in day out, try the Savoie Mont Blanc and Haute-Maurienne regions.
There will, ultimately, be a piste running down the same slope once the exact route and funding can be agreed; but, for now, you can ski only 2km down from Schatzberg to the gondola's mid-station, and must ride the rest of the way down.
So far this year only 20cm of snow has fallen on Flaine's upper pistes, compared with 45cm the previous year and 240cm by the same time in 2012.
The most common mechanisms of injury were falling down on the same level, which includes collision with the icy surface (49%), collision on an on-piste area (30%), and collision on an off-piste area, collisions on-piste and off-piste areas includes collisions with an immovable object or a another person (8%).
Sometimes I go off piste and get a salmon and cream cheese … but it never hits the same spot.
Capacity around the world has massively expanded since then: manmade snow production in Switzerland grew from less than 10% of piste area in 2000 to 36% in 2010, while Austria reached 62% at the end of the same period.
Red's heavily wooded off-piste terrain is all but unmapped and unless you know the exact two trees you snuck between to enjoy such a run, the chances of finding the same line again are minimal.
And like many others in the Valais, the piste-side Chalet Auriane is built into an impossibly steep incline.
