As you may know it’s the paralympics over in Canada, which fills me with respect and awe much more than for the regular bodied (or whatever the correct term is) athletes.
I have been having a look to see how some of them have ended up as paralympians, but it seems as if it’s a bit [...]
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Here’s a look ’round the Ski Connections Ski Shop in Villeneuve, Serre Chevalier 1400 and also a nice chat with Davina about the shop, ski lessons and off piste skiing.
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Might have to eek out an excellent for today, after the weekend’s powder – it was excellent. Cold and crisp, but like skiing on the top of a condensed Guiness head, and to top it all virtually alone.
I started in Monetier at about 10.30am, still mostly in shadow apart from L’Yret which was my first [...]
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I might be going to run out of superlatives if I shoot my bolt now about the conditions in Serre Chevalier at the moment, so I’m just going to say it was very, very nice up there today.
In fact it was so nice I had to let out the occasional whoop and a giggle. The [...]
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Just in case you were thinking of skiing in the USSA, what with the cheap dollar and flights etc, have a think before going. Due to the flaming idiot of the other day there have been new “safety” measures introduced to flights for bodacious skies.
If you’ve been following the story you’re probably as interested as [...]
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Just got back from Monetier, I love skiing on the Saturday – you virtually get the piste for yourself, well at least for two minutes at a time.
The light was strange, mostly sunny but still quite white, so stick to yellow goggles, even then when the sun went behind the clouds everything just disappeared. I [...]
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Lovely, lovely, lovely. That’s my short version of the situation here. I took a picture, so have a look at that, I think it says more than a thousand words.
So to save us all some time:
sunny, quiet, some wind – but not as bad as sign-posted, some bobbly patches, fantastic snow on L’Yret, Cucamelle still [...]
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You know what, I’m not certain I’d advise coming to Serre Chevalier right now.
It’s still only the Monetier section that’s open, the good news is the cannons have been chucking the stuff out so the runs below Bachas are now open, but it is damn cold, like seriously cold, -8º in the day cold.
Due to [...]
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Just got down from having a quick squiz at the only open sector of Serre Chevalier, ie the lifts above Bachas in Monetier.
Got to tell you it’s not bad, not bad at all. There were quite a few people undeterred by the forecast and they were all happy about the three lifts that were open, [...]
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