New Snow, New Season

Good news! Our first serious snowfall this winter and the rumours are that Mt Chery will be open for the weekend next weekend (4th Dec)!! Meanwhile we're all breaking out the skins and getting some tracks in while we can!
Avoriaz should be opening next weekend too - now this is the way to start a season!!

Annecy lunch and Zermatt day trip

Great day in Annecy and day trip to Zermatt

Autumn is definitely a favourite time of year, winter just around the corner, mushrooms before it gets too cold, trees look amazing and just over an hour away a nice lunch stop in Annecy. The old town of Annecy is very picturesque and has a good market too as well as some nice shops and littered with restaurants but lots of greenery and water to walk off the calories.



Lac Annecy

Also because winter so close the odd snow fall makes a day out to the high spot of Zermatt just over 2 hours away a great idea. A project I’m in the middle of at the moment is writing the Telemark manual and I need photos to go along with it, so off to Zermatt to hook up with ex racers, Emma Carrick-Anderson and Amanda Pirie who are also there to make some shots for the Alpine version! Henry is there to take the pics and after a little bit of faffing about, it’s very busy the news of good snow gets about and although yesterday the weather was foul, today is almost perfect. Toward the end of the day the wind picks up and tomorrow the weather looks like it will go back to being pants but we manage to get lots, over 1000 in the bag, so hopefully some good ones we can use. The first tele turns are always hard on the body but keeping up with girls and the fact I’m wearing new boots and my feet are in bits make the end of the day a wlcome time to get them off my feet, one thing, why is it that just before you take them off they feel the best they have all day???? Legs are feeling it, all that running hasn’t stopped the aches and pains but what would it have been like if I hadn’t done any???


Matterhorn from telecabin



Autumn in the mountains

a few friends came to visit over the Halloween weekend, trees looked amazing!! Mt Blanc was unfortunatley for them, out of site but the day before they arrived it was stunning. lots of walking, drinking and laughing and a nice evening bonfire BBQ, sausages and pork and beef steaks, what more can you ask?? early snow and start to the season!! off to Zermatt next weekend for some Telemarking, having some Pics taken for the new BASI manual which i'm in the process of writing!!

cheers guys see you in the snow!?!?