Wednesday, January 18, 2006
A sporadic post from the piste... it's been snowing now for about 36 hours, deep deep powder piling up, which is a welcome change from the icy pistes we were first greeted with on Monday. The weather is due to clear this evening leading to blue skies and sunshine for Thursday: perfect conditions and time to use the Fresh Traxxx motto "no mates on a powder day!"The chalet is spectacular. Really. Super comfy leather corner sofas wrap the edge of the living room and look onto a raised log fire. A hot tub constantly bubbles at 40 degrees in a lean to log cabin adjacent to the chalet. Dinner each night consists of 3 course "michelin starred restaurant quality" meals cooked by the resident chef Stu. We also get welcomed home each evening by the lovely Sophie who makes the very finest cakes - she will make someone very happy one day! Our brilliant mountain guides Leroy and Lochie, ensure we always get the best days riding out of the mountain, moving us around the valley according to the weather conditions, and guiding us to cliff drops, couloirs and windlips to throw ourselves off.
Apart from a gastric bug which has worked it's way through most of our group knocking each person out for 48 hrs, I can't complain about a thing and hadn't realised quite how much I missed snowboarding... thinking, quite seriously, of doing a season next year.
Snapshots can be found here: Snowboarding Pics. They are literally snapshots... spent more time riding than I did clicking!
posted by Finn at 9:07 AM
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