I think it is now Day 12 or maybe 13 but not 100% sure…
Dodgy weather and everywhere closed gave us a well earned rest and the arrival of the next Visitors. So now we are 5.
We fitted in a bit of transceiver practice on the Les Praz golf course. Not sure there is much Golf going on there right now. They’d need different coloured balls for one thing.
After 2 days of relaxing we headed down to Les Houches for some snowy action and our first skinning adventure part way up the Turtle track. All good until the up-ness defeated me .. too fat skis and too thin skins or more practice needed.
Our Friends decided that despite the huge amounts of snow falling from the sky they needed to go ice climbing… Sadly too warm for satisfactory ice. Consolation was had by way of a fun evening out in Chamonix which was the snowiest I have ever seen it.
Having thoroughly tested the snow conditions we lured them back to Les Houches today for some through the trees action. Everything else was still more or less shut.
A fantastic day was had by all ..
More visitors arriving tomorrow and we shall be 9 .. fortunately there is a second apartment, else we may not be friends for long.
We returned to the scene of the incident which enabled me to join the badkneeclub and fortunately all limbs intact and 2 days in Italy saw 2 fantastic runs round the back from the top of Youla and some fun for Clive on a pair of Whitedot 98s rented from Jim in the Whitedot test centre in Les Praz. 8 or 9 perfect turns in the fluffiest of fluffiests before a suitably spectacular wipeout.
You know that thing called the internet where you can find a wealth of info about Chamonix Mont Blanc lift status, snow conditions, weather and other useful stuff. Well having done endless research into aspects, altitudes and snow pack we still managed to walk to the Flegere lift only to find it was closed due to high wind so wandered back to the flat to get the car. Oops.
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