Dec/060
Chamonix’s opening day, Saturday
Picked up Mark the Seppo at 9am, and Brian the Seppo at the Vagabond roundabout 10 mins later before driving up the Valley to the Grande Montets for the opening day of the season.
Amazingly there were no queues at all, and we were straight on the access chairlift (the telecabine being still out of action while they install a new cable)
I wasn’t expecting much. There hasn’t been much snow yet this year, and only a few of the lifts were running, but amazingly it was a great day. There was plenty of powder to be had if you were brave enough to risk trashing your skis on the rocks. The conditions weren’t wonderful…. But they’ll do fine for now.
Following my mates down into the Lavancher bowl at the end of the day, tired and starting to ski badly because of it was – on reflection- a bit of a mistake. Threading a path through car sized boulders wasn’t so hard because those are the rocks you can see. Got there in the end, though and we called it a day.
It was a really great start to the season, and on Sunday….. well …. I can’t remember ever having such comprehensive muscle ache. Even this morning (Monday) I’m still limping around like an old codger.
