Skiing

On Saturday the pistes were all really crunchy - a slight thaw on Friday night had been followed by a re-freeze. Ordinarily this wouldn’t be a problem . . . but there were also a whole bunch of day-tripping skiers around, going at it like lunatics. So VonSmallHaussen and I just did a couple...
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I am SO behind with this. OK, this post is the last one with any detail at all before I try to bring my training record up to date. On Friday we arranged to go skiing with our chalet hosts - the excellent Katie & Ash who had been looking after us for the week...
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So on Thursday we decided to go for broke, and get from Courchevel to the valley beyond Val Thorens. It was like visiting the land that time forgot. I’ve been going into far too much detail on these trips, so here are the highlights: We took the brand new Cime Caron cable car over into...
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So last Tuesday night it snowed. During Wednesday, both Von SmallHaussen and Mrs Tall Friend both had lessons booked, which left me, Tall Friend and Algernon Crupe free to go exploring the wilder side of Courchevel. No, not this mythical ‘après ski’. I must be getting old, but I find that after a full day...
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I’ve been skiing twice before in the Three Valleys. Every time, we’ve stayed in the lower part of Courchevel (Le Praz or La Tania), ‘cos staying higher up involves spending a whole lot more money than I can justify. And every time, we’ve tried to ski all the way to Val Thorens and back...
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So after Sunday’s tentative return to skiing, it was time to roll my metaphorical sleeves up, and get right in. There were seven of us (plus two babies) staying in Family Friendly Skiing’s chalet ‘Nid Alpin’, and we all headed off up the mountain on Monday morning for a trip over the Col de...
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I took my running stuff to France last week. So on our first morning there, I bounced out of bed feeling absolutely Tiggeriffic, and headed out for a short run down the hill from La Tania to Le Praz & back before everyone else was out of bed. This was surprisingly difficult - I guess...
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Last Sunday (13th) was a LONG day. 04:20 alarm clock for a drive to the airport from Algernon’s house in Cambridge (that’s the Semiconductor Engineer’s new label - just so that you know). Then the flight to Geneva, met by Tall Friend & Co for the transfer to Courchevel . . . arriving just...
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I’ve put together a compilation the be the theme music for this year’s skiing. Have I mentioned that I’m going skiing tomorrow for a week? If you’re in the UK, you can see the compilation & listen to samples on the UK iTunes store. For the rest of the world . . . James Bond...
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Did I hear right that you’ve got a week’s skiing coming up? No? Are you sure? I’m certain that someone said something about seven days skiing the massive Three Valleys area - combining Courchevel, Méribel and Val Thorens? Oh, hang on a minute, I can see where I’ve gone wrong - it’s not you, it’s ME...
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