While Ceil Miller Bouchet's family went to Bonneval-sur-Arc for the skiing, she went to eat cheese. A vacation spent sampling Beaufort and dinners of Reblochon-filled Tartiflette? Who needs skiing anyway!

LET’S get this straight up front: I’m no skier. But when my French sister-in-law and her athletic husband, who hails from Grenoble (he basically grew up on skis), suggested we meet up for a slopeside family reunion in France last January, I was just as elated as my ski-obsessed husband and children.

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Photo by Jean & Nathalie