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 After
a few weeks of heavy snow we now have blue sky and awesome skiing
conditions in Val d'Isere.
You can keep your Whistlers and Jackson Holes, skiing in Val is
just about as perfect as it gets...
 Le
Grand Raid Freeride
If you were out on the mountain last Saturday you would have seen
a strange sight, over 100 skiers and boarders marching up off-piste
runs, then straight-lining down again. They were all taking part
in Le Grand Raid, a freeride day organised by the ski school Evolution
2. The day was a scaled down version of the 3 day event which is
a yearly must for freeride pro and amateur off-piste lovers from
all over Europe.
 The
event saw a great turn out from local seasonnaires. We had teams
from Bananas, Dicks Tea Bar, YSE, Mark Warner, The Lounge Bar, Precision
and The Moris Pub. Over the day teams of 2 raced down 5 off-piste
pitches which including couloirs, open faces, and a very steep leg
burning tree run. The event was won by a couple of French brothers,
Les Souiets, who just about straight lined everything and finished
in an amazing total time of 10m27s. The highest placed Brits were
team Toad Pie made up of Giles Lewis (TDC) & Gavin Lewis (Dicks)
who came a credible 3rd place in a total time of 12m40s.
I'll do anything for a snog..
With the boy / girl ratio in Val similar to those on a nuclear submarine,
some desperate measures are being taken amongst the testosterone
charged community. Driver Will was getting so sexually frustrated,
he bet two of his (female) chalet hosts 20€ each to snog one
another. Did they? ...let's just say money easily won!!!! Meanwhile,
Torquil (Banana Bunch) took things to a new low when a certain chalet
company's girls said that he could pull them if he fondled his mate's
crown jewels. Without a second thought Torquil's hand was down there
counting 1…2...
In Train-ing
Perhaps a guy with the right idea was JB, a regular in the MT last
year, who decided to get some pulling practice before arriving in
the resort. JB, who was starting his season late, came on the train
last week (literally). Feeling a bit frisky he got chatting to a
classy lady and before the train got out of Paris he was making
good use of the bunk facilities and enjoying the rhythmical movement
of the train for the night. Chug Chug....
Breakdowns
Breakdowns are not uncommon in this resort - one tour operator,
however, have had four in last week. In the last incident, Taff,
the driver, was seen running into the Gendarmes for help wearing
only one shoe with his van on fire down the road.
Clueless
A girl was overheard in Café Fats testing her walkie-talkie
and asking her friend, 'Which button do I press to get missed calls?'
Whilst on the subject of clueless, Eve, on transfer duty, remarked
on how impressed she was with the YSE rep who had just gone past
in a coach. She couldn't believe that he was skilled enough to drive
the coach (she didn't realise that the driver sits on the left hand
side in Europe).
Rumour of the week
Stan Laurel is Clint Eastwood's son. (Yeah..right.. and Britney
Spears has just got engaged to Robbie Williams).
Written
by the infamous and talented Muckspreader
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