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| Snow... |
It is hard to believe that only weeks ago I was boarding not snow, but the plane in sunny Christchurch with reports that europe was experiencing its the warmest autumn in 150 years. No snow on the alps had yet been reported, and nightmares of last years warm dry winter showed potential of reoccurring... but this was not to be.
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| Snow... |
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| and more Snow... |
I finally made it to Verbier - Switzerland, at midnight on the 14th December (grâce à la seule M
me-taxi-Dellea!), there had been a dusting of snow a week earlier but there was only remnants present in town when I arrived. This night was also when the snow storms arrived. On my first afternoon, already enough snow had fallen to safely ski the trees back to the resort. By the following day all lifts were closed, and upper parts of the village were being evacuated because of the avalanche risk posed by the shear volume of snow that had been puked! And in the days and weeks that followed it has just kept coming! There were reports that more snow had fallen in the space of 2 days than in the entire 5 month season last year!
A short clip from my first week up here...
And with any breaks in the weather that we have had we have certainy made the most of this amazing start to the winter. However we have had to share the snow over the busy festive period. I can't wait until the new year when the crowds of punters recede. With the snow base we now have, any amounts of fresh pow goodness will be epic fun.
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| And some mountains, sun and a snowboard. |
With both my point and shoot camera and my ContourHD head cam now on the blink, photos/videos are minimal, however rumours have it that along with alot of new snow, the new year will also bring some GoPros and a brand spankin new DSLR! So I'm hoping for some sick photos to come.
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| Merry Xmas morning bluebird - about to shred some Mont-Gélé Fresh! :) |
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| You can never be too prepared - vince with matching blu-board/blu-pills |
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| Me & Claire - Christmas Day Hangover fun |
Me, Vince, Ian and Claire getting a couple of turns in before Christmas Dinner and just before my Headcam died.
Headcam was on it side by accident, but I think it actually gives a fair reflection of how I was feeling after certain xmas eve celebrations...
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| Xmas Banquet |
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| Vinny bout to score some post Xmas-lunch Pow |
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| At least someone knows where to go... |
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| Backside Mont-Fort runout |
First couple of weeks have dissappeared already! I guess I must be having fun?!
