Well, the season's slowing right down now. Quite a lot of the locals have headed home or elsewhere now so life is starting to seem quieter already. Not all the time of course, the resort was overrun by Superheroes on Tuesday night as hundreds of seasonnaires in stolen sheets and tin foil descended on Corrigans Irish Pub and L'Opera nightclub for an absolutely top night. The
very amusing sight of the Corrigans staff ejecting a hyperactive clown (strange choice for a superhero costume) will stay with me for quite a while to come I'm sure. I know who was beneath the wig and paint but mum's the word eh?

The weather here has been quite unusual lately. Instead of the usual sunshine, we've had mostly covered skies with rain below and sprinklings of snow up top. It's dead easy to judge the depth of snowfall at the moment as well after the whole resort was covered in a coating of sand(?) at the
beginning of the week. Anyway, wednesday night saw the best snow of late. We woke up to find a few inches of snow covering the cars in resort. Fabulous! The forecasts are looking even better but you can never be sure.

My spiritual home, the funpark is still quite splendid, with the shapers constantly improving things all the time. The pipe is pretty much consistently in good condition and some new tabletops/hips have been added recently. The 2 big air jumps have been changed into one "sh*t the bed!! that's MASSIVE" air jump. The guys who are brave enough to hit it are having to hike up the hill behind the run-in just to get enough speed to make the landing. I heard the phrase, "60 feet of flat before the landing" but I haven't tried to measure it myself. Trust me, it's rather large.

That's all for now. I know that the last guests for some of the major tour operators will be leaving on Saturday so I reckon there'll be a big party to be found.

Cheers

Dan

Report from Dan Jackson - Natives Resort Reporter in Les Deux Alpes

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