Old Meets New In Verbier

On a recent trip to Verbier to train and prepare a few folk for their various levels of Telemarking, we came across a bunch of guys out in old fashioned kit; leather boots, wooden skis, plus fours, long socks, woollen gloves, animal skin backpacks, sheep skin vests and the old long pole but with one modern thing in the pack a flask full of Schnapps! Which they proceeded to share about.

One poor fellow had managed to snap his ski just behind the tip so was having a nightmare! The rest ranged from quite good to fairly average but great to see, meet and have a slide alongside. I’m not sure who was jealous of who but from my side I would’ve loved to swap kit for a few runs. They were definitely having a lot of fun and really enjoyed the fuss people were making of them.

So thanks to the team I was with; Doctor Chris, Tugster, Rowdy, Roddy, Lorne and for a couple of runs an old mucker Benson who was basically spying on us having trained the guys during the fantastic season they had had - as we all have this winter in the alps.