23 Feb 2002
WEEK 7
SNOW AND CHALET REPORT
Snow snow snow snow SNOW ... and
red bull
It's SNOWING SNOWING SNOWING! Not quelque
flocons, but proper all day and all night dumping for
3 days. Close on a metre at 1800m and lots more up top.
And supposedly another metre to come in the next week.
Nice! Bring on the heliskiing!
Powder is good, powder is fluffy, powder
makes the world go round. We love it! We've finally
been hitting all the places in resort that you look
at and think - maybe (when there's snow). Everyone's
stoked with how their riding's coming on now the conditions
are so good. Confidence is up, adrenalin's flowing,
this is what it's about. Love it, love it, love it.
Jess is ripping it up on her new fat board,
and has really warmed to the idea of jumping off things
(now the landings are so soft). Look out for photos
of her launching herself off 15ft cliffs!
Katie's back out on her board now, and
with only a week left in resort, John is busy burning
the candle - cramming in full days on the mountain and
full nights in the bars.
 
From Wednesday to Saturday, we've been
on a crazy 4 day road trip up to Chamonix for the Red
Bull Snow Thrill - which proved to be a spectacular
display of the world's best freeride skiers throwing
themselves off huge cliffs ... click
here for full report from the event.
... The only down side of this week has
been Rhod's impressive prize for best injury. Not one
for doing things in small measures, he's managed to
fracture his eyesocket and cheek bone in three places
(kneeing himself in the face when he hit a compression
too hard on his board). Looking only slightly scary,
but still on his usual positive form, he is in hospital
for a couple of days and will be back with us in resort
very soon. Everyone's thinking of you!
Snow news ...
Doesn't need much more than to say AT
LAST! We have proper snow. Deep, fluffy powder to play
in, and more on the way. So the rumour I heard a month
ago that all the locals were predicting 2 solid weeks
of snow at the end of February looks like it's going
to come true.
Let's hope that the other rumour we heard
that it was going to snow all of March and April proves
to be as accurate (not that we're getting greedy or
anything!)
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