Wednesday 15 January 2014

Alls good in the alps

                We were up and on the slopes in the sun in plenty time this morning ,and we had decided to ski an are called la flegere today .we chose it because it was in the best position in the valley to get the sunny morning (the weather report said it was to cloud over later in the afternoon ) the lower slopes were excellent lots of nice well pisted wide easy runs , but unfortuneately for some reason some of the upper regions were closed and unpisted possibly due to avalanches or the risk of them through the night , so there wasn't a lot of the longs red runs and/or decent black runs to keep us entertained all day .by midday we had pretty much skied out the all the available areas and bob and Ali wanted to try a unpisted upper section ! They were not alone I've never seen so many people ski'in/boarding off piste ! So for the first time our wee ski group split into two and we kept In touch with our walkie talkies .me and cammy done a couple of easy runs taking our time and taking some photos then went for a lunch time beer ,bob and Ali joined us there and said it was difficult in parts in  the upper sections but got better as they came down we never missed anything really ! It's slightly better for them in their all mountain skis and if the weather stays the way the forecast is going it's looking like me and cammy will be changing to a set of those before the weeks out , 
       Before we knew it our day was disappearing and it was nearing 2pm ! we had changed ski areas back to brevent and decided to have some lunch there , after lunch cammy pronounced he was shattered and wanted a sleep he was going back to the apartment , so the 4 became 3 and we skied a few red runs in brevent before the light made things dull and we decided to call it a day ! We got back to the apartment where cammy was already sound asleep , it was around 16:20 and we thought if you can't beat them join them ! It had been a long hard day we deserved a snooze ! So we all had an hours sleep and some snacks before heading out for beers at 18:00
    Over the past couple of days perhaps because of all the wet snow around cammys common sense had taken over and he has been wearing my big moon boots out .but tonight he is back to his 10bob sliders walking the freezing pavements with his hands in pockets lol ( oh to be young ! ) , ther was no need for a group talk we all knew we where we were heading ,so here we are it's 18:40 and I'm finishing off today's blog yet again in chambre Neuf while the resident band no limits are rocking out some classic rock numbers so far we've had Bruce Springsteen whitesnake and a queen number , alls good in our world it's shaping up to be another damm fine day ,  and we are making plans for tomorrow's ski area (it's looking probably grand montets ) Jesus how can a band jump from born to run to take on me by aha ! Lol that's a change this band likes to play to a mixed audience 
       




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