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Gallery 1 & Results - Gallery
2 - Report
Snow and slalom
Courchevel Dual Slalom It was a fantastic day for skiing, no doubt
about it. Probably a better day for blasting the fresh powder through
some visibility enhancing trees than racing on a dual slalom course
though.
 A
lot of teams turned up, undeterred by falling snow and a certain
amount of fog. Many from Courchevel
of course, some from Meribel,
a couple from Val
D’Isere, one from Livigno, and several wearing about as much
clothing as a Geordie hen-party. Jimbo and his team from Bar
le Jump soon had spectators and teams alike warmed thoroughly
with a BBQ and plenty of beer. By the way, those veggie-burgers
definitely had real meat in them – vegetables simply don’t taste
that nice.
Bell and Baxter
 The
racing was knife-edge, head to head, chin to floor carves, steely
nerves, staring out, shouting loud kind of stuff. Ski New Generation
did an amazing job judging and organising the competitors, and Ally
Rainback managed to slip away from running his team to beat five
times Olympian Graham Bell down the course. Graham was by no means
the only star to attend. Alain Baxter
took time out from his extremely busy
schedule to hand out the trophies at the end of race prize-giving.
It was an honour to meet you, Mr Baxter Sir.
Kalico prizegiving
The main prizes were doled out in the Kalico
a couple of hours later, in front of a good turnout of good losers.
Thanks to Freeride.fr, Fatface, Pub
le Ski Lodge and the Doron
Pub in addition to the usual Show
Love Sponsors for giving us the stuff to give away. Next week
we head to Val D’Isere for skier and boarder cross, and more tension
than a scarecrow in the fire-brigade.
Report
from Jon Trigell- Natives Overseas
Team Manager
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