12th january 2002
WEEK 1
SNOW AND CHALET REPORT
The Planet Subzero housemates are
finally here ...
check out the first week's news and snow report
So, after waiting for this moment for
far too long, it all went (touch wood), more or less
disgustingly smoothly on the day of arrival.
Except perhaps Jess, who travelling from
Switzerland on holiday with her family, ended up on
some other 'planet':
Steph: 'Jess, I don't mean to worry
you, but I don't think you're in the right place, there's
no train coming into Bourg St Maurice at the time you
said you'd arrive.'
Jess: 'No, it definitely says Les Arcs
on the ticket'
Steph: 'Ok cool, look out for the guy
in the white beanie, waiting for you at the station'
20 minutes later:
Jess: 'I don't think I'm in the right
place. There's no one here and everyone's wandering
round in T shirts. It's really warm .... (pause) ...
I did wonder why we weren't going up hill and I couldn't
see any mountains.'
For future reference, there's another
Les Arcs, somewhere near Nice on the South coast of
France. Apparently someone does this every year and
rocks up with skis/boards in this tiny town in the middle
of no-where ... good job she's armed with a sense of
humour!
Other news ...
Rhod - the good Catholic lad, below, 'Get
dooon heeer noooo ya bunch a pusssies. wher'dya think
yooor go'in? Yooo drink this nooo, ya hear me?'
(That's the half pints of medicinal hot tequila at 3am).
First broken one - Katie - broken wrist
while standing still on her board laughing at someone
else falling over ... will be fixed in a matter of a
few short weeks.
Steph, Tony and John have been spotted,
pick axes in hand, building a channel for the phone
cable to go under the ice (don't ask) - while the France
Telecom technician (who's job it is) supervised our
hard work, drunk cups of tea and made useful suggestions
... could've been mistaken for thinking we'd never left
the UK.
And typically, within 4 days and 4 bottles
of vodka, the clippers have been out, so Scott (the
cheeky one), is now sporting a very fetching 'Beckham'.
Snow news ...
Well, what can we say. Where is it? But,
if you consider the fact that it hasn't snowed for 2
weeks, the pistes are actually holding up reasonably
well. Pretty much everything is open and most of the
runs around Vallandry and Arc 2000 are good for hammering
down when the sun's been on them for a few hours. Off-piste
conditions are rocky or bare, but amazingly, there's
still some powder to be had if you hunt for it up top.
This is definitely an opportunity to maximise
sleeping, drinking and 'getting fit' on the blue runs
until the real stuff gets here.
Next dump forecast for Monday or Tueday
next week (14/15th Jan)
Watch this space for powder reports ..
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