The bobbled lumo coloured beenie hat is the must have accessory here in Courchevel this season. An extremely nasty experience that occurred this week involving the lending and almost losing of a such like beenie, gave me a true appreciation of how much I am in love with my perfectly formed (in every single possible way) beenie hat. I truly believe that there is ëthe
As the quality of the snow starts to degrade so the chances of catching an edge and the number of injuries increase. In the past couple of weeks people have been dropping like flies. Powder white have lost Alicia and Emily, both of whom blew their knee ligaments out. Amy(TJÃÂs) dislocated her elbow while coming down the tricky Verdons colouir. The sun has also caught
If youÃÂre reading this on Sunday you might notice an un-eerie calm in the bars with the absence of a certain Will Gill. No endless rounds of Jagerbombs, no crates of manzana to the bottle bank, no trademark red/white salopettes passed out under the king table. For the past two weeks Will has been the catalyst to many a drunken night. Seasonnaires who have got caught up
Whenever the end of March arrives thereÃÂs an uneasy air of competitiveness that descends upon the Jump bar and certain Scottish lasses named Jen. Simply reading through the list of teams for the three-valley rally shows this. The Jump team was named ìYouÃÂre going down Jenî only to be retorted by JenÃÂs team ìWhile youÃÂre down there Jump barî. Both t
Checkpoint 2 Not the toughest clue of the entire race but the one that caught the most people out. ìGo to the village in 1400 and go the to Lodgeî. The key words here are VILLAGE and 1400. Meribel Village is based at 1400 (La Tania is 1350) and the check point was at Lodge du Village. Why people would think that two consecutive checkpoints would be in the same valle
Whilst first considering the idea of doing a checkpoint for the 3 Valley Rally there were visions of myself, sat in a deck chair, supping away on a cool beverage whist enjoying a healthy flow of banter with my Ass Man (Toni), with the occasional task of ushering through a drunken team with a quick wink and a clue. As you can imagine it was not something I needed ponder ove
