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reminder - Mt Lachaux open race coming up on weekend of 8th and 9th
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

I posted earlier this year about the Mont Lachaux open race – this gives skiers of any level, age, and state of mind a chance to spend a weekend wearing a race number and negotiating professionally-timed courses. The start lines sees young ones giggling and poking each other with their elbows; club racers vying for a personal best; and laid back amateurs just enjoying the company. There’s a big entry, carefully allocated to classes, and so the finish line and social events are always really lively.

Organised by Swiss Mountain Sports in Montana, it is an open race event with a great historical pedigree – and Yves Caillet, Director of SMS has carefully nurtured the event and developed it into one of the key dates on the Valais calendar. This year it’s on the weekend of the 8th and 9th of February – still plenty of cheap Easyjet flights left to Geneva.

The key course is a long one – over 6km from Bella Lui at 2600m down to the base station in Crans at 1500m. Carefully marshalled throughout the course, kids and adults have plenty of time to fluff things on a few turns and then make up time on the lower sections. There are loads of excellent viewing points to cheer on friends and sit having lunch while watching the different classes shoot through the GS gates. Last year, we watched as tiny kids battled their tiredness on the lower sections, and then adults shaving hundredths off on the turns at Chez Erwin. It’s a weekend of much socialising, personal successes and that special buzz which comes from skiing your heart out. Plenty of people simply arrive beaming at the finish line having skied the course, others arrive in a speed tuck, watching the clock.

Of course, when you drop into the finish area you join the mayhem of the social side of the event: live music, Swiss raclette, loads of local food and drinks, steaming Gluwein, and various prize events and ceremonies. The big tents are a great opportunity to hang out and rub shoulders with extremely interesting folk.

So…lighthearted or serious, young or old, if you feel like being part of a ‘proper job’ ski race weekend, on one of the sunniest valley walls in the Alps, get onto the SMS website, or PM me.

youtube tubeness of the course:


http://youtube.com/v/4H-Jps2pCdU
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