I have been accused of many things over the many years of writing the enquirer.From bad spelling and grammar to unscrupulous practices but throughout there was always an underlying level of trust. Now I don't expect for people who have known me for 20 minutes to trust me in the same way that people I have known for seasons. But it has got to a point where even those who
Mid-season blues have taken their toll as another two seasonnaires bail out. Louise(Scott Dunn) is returning to OZ for university after graduating from an intensive 3 month course of another sort of education from Paul(TJ's). Last Saturday drinkers in TJ's will has noticed that 'the tan beard' Adam(TJ's 2002-3) has taken the place of Dan. Dan is off to Honk Kong to r
You might be forgiven for thinking that it's been back to school theme night all week. Alas no, it is something 100 times worse. ? term has descended on Courchevel meaning that the usually quiet bars and the lifts have been overrun by hoards of 16 year olds all after one thing(two actually but one usually lead to the other). Alcohol & sex! Now underage drinking is no
Now I have nothing against 1650 per se its just that it's a magnet for ALL the skiers in 1850.Everyone always says how nice and wide the pistes are and how few people are over there(because all the 1650 people are off skiing in Meribel/Motteret). They don't mention it's as flat as a proverbial pancake, instead focusing on how it makes their skiing/boarding style looks a
In a very scary twist , pro skier, film star and general all around nice guy, Pat Sharples has been spotted on several occasions, once with Andy Robinson and then on a love ski with the lovely Vanessa, sliding down the mountain, not on his orange ten eighties, but on a pair of blades. A Salomon spokesman said 'Although we encourage are team riders to experience other f
It's so easy, isn't it? Working in the mountains? No stress, no hassle. Maybe one day you are in your smelly cramped halls at uni, eeking a living on about 5p a week. Or perhaps you are rushing to work with the rest of the no-lifers squeezed in to the Northern Line at 8am on a Monday morning. Then someone goes BAM (like a Fairy Godmother only way cooler) and suddenly yo
