All right! It's got serious now! Continuous snow for 36 hours! We've had another 30cm at Le Refuge and up to 50cm at Flaine overnight. This is awesome! No sign of it stopping yet either!! Mike is well impressed. Leanne less so!
Leanne has been such a good sport! She is not a skiing enthusiast and I can see that she does not share our single-minded passion for this past-time. She was ecstatic to be snuggling back into bed with her book, while the three of us headed out into the blizzard! We promised to return for an early lunch and a "nana nap". We need to be in top form! We have a big night at Rick & Liz's ahead of us tonight. We have warned Mike and Leanne that a night at the Owen's is not for the faint hearted!!
2/Mike talking to his friend Annie at the ticket office!
Mike has made a friend at our local ticket office. Mike has surprisingly good french! I would even say better than ours! He studied french at school and spent a year in the Swiss village of Morgin in the Portes du Soleil where french and swiss-german were spoken. Dropping Mike off at the our local ticket office each morning, he has charmed the lovely ticket lady (Annie) with his command of the French language. We didn't have the heart to tell him that she speaks English fluently!!
Snow continued to fall heavily all day. Visibility was fairly questionable at the best of times - think Cardrona/ Mt Buller in a white out! But with the tree runs of Les Carroz and Morillon and our better knowledge of the area, we were still able to find some good little powder drops.
We met up with Rick mid morning and he took us for a blast down through the trees on one of his secret runs. Here's the footage of today - go to 6/03/09. Making a film of these guys skiing was a challenge. They certainly haven't studied at the "Powder 8" school! The Director's vision was that they would all ski down in unison creating a triplicate set of perfect tracks. Alas the result was more like a trio of old mountain goats scattering in all directions. They say that a film director's nightmare is working with children and animals! I think we might have to add Rick, Mike and Graeme to that list as well.
I can already hear the howls of protest from the old goaties about this incident! Apparantly, their view is that I did not explain my artistic vision clearly enough. They were confused by my hand signals. Yeah right?...Nice try fellas..!! But no cigar!
To end the morning, Rick took us on a magical mystery tour down through the trees almost to our village. We are ashamed to say that we haven't yet found the route down through the trees and gullies to Le Refuge. Work in progress!
Back home to a lovely late lunch with Leanne. An afternoon "nana nap" for the oldies and a walk to the village for a spot of shopping for the young and attractive ones!!
3/My old goaties!! Hmm..you're looking a little snowy, Mike?
What happened on the way down?
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