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Les Diablerets, Switzerland, June 20
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The things we do to ski
Starting with getting up at 6:30 on a Sunday, in fact I would have got up earlier but the lifts at Les Diab' are only supposed to open at 0820.
Things started badly when the woman on the ticket desk looked at me as though I was deranged, which while not an uncommon reaction seemed to be connected to buying a lift ticket. After a brief conversation where she pointed out it was snowing at the top and there was no refund and me pointing out snow fall wasn’t some entirely unexpected for a skier I got my ticket.
Stepping off the top cable car I found
this
. At this point they were 6 snowboarders and me (on skis) there. After a long coffee 5 of the boarders left, which proves they’ve little or no staying power
I wouldn’t say the visibility was poor but this
guy
seems to have lost the sledge.
By now it’s 9:30 and there’s just me and one boarder left, a
French girl
who was in the area and wanted to board. The lift guys decided if we wanted they’d open the lifts and we could ski, after about 2 seconds consideration this looked like a good idea. The only proviso was that when we’d done we should let the lift guys know so they turn the lifts off.
About an hour later I was beginning to wonder if my optimism about the weather improving was a bit misplaced, then
this
. Hardly perfect but quite sufficient. After the snowfall the skiing was really pretty good, with a few inches of light powder.
By 12 the other half of the skiing public decided she’d had enough getting wet and cold and decided to go home. After another couple of hours tracking out the powder by the pistes and entertaining a coach load of Arab day trippers I called it a day.
Some more
photos
.
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Looks like you had an 'interesting' day! Nice photos. Was it windy? I'm hoping that this morning's really heavy rainfall has improved things at Tignes, seriously considering a trip up in the morning - sun forecast, and cold again.
Couldn't find the photos of you entertaining the tourists. Can I ask what tricks you performed?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
PG wrote:
Couldn't find the photos of you entertaining the tourists. Can I ask what tricks you performed?
They didn't seem quite as jaded as we are
Snow seemed a pretty big deal to them so just the balancing on two planks trick seemed to keep their video cam's going ...
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