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13/03/2010
Issue 13

A note from the editor

I don’t want to sound like a scratched record but Courchevel will be entering a team on Wednesday for the Boss des Bosses in Chamonix. Among the “consummate professionals” of the team include seasonnaires Scottish Jen(Killi), Ryan (Snowlinx) & Oscar from Powder White. They will be throwing themselves down a steep and nasty bumps run while racing someone from another team. How steep? Well if you go to the top of Suisse and look down under the chair that will give you a rough idea. In the past I have gone to the top of the course in Chamonix and after looking down I have said “Do you know what? If I didn’t really need to go down this run I wouldn’t”. And not only do they have to ski it but they have to ski it at speed. Whether they do a perfect run or they wipe out they have at least stepped up, manned up, grew a pair, call it what you will.
So all we need now is for people (YOU) to come and support them. Now compared to other resorts Courchevel has always had a trouble finding people to support. While other resorts regularly bring two coach loads of supporters we have trouble even filling one. Which is a shame as the whole day out, both on the mountain and later in Chamonix town is one of best I’ve ever experienced. Last year was one of the best, both weather and competition wise. Judging from the number of people from Courchevel who went to the X-Games last Wednesday there are definitely people up for a good fun day out.
Big thanks to Snowlinx, le Kalico, Magic in Motion, Momentum snowsports, Ski Higher and La Boulotte the tickets for the coach have been subsidised down to only 15 euros. If you just want to come and watch the race the price for a pedestrian lift pass is only 12 euros. Alternately if you want to bring skis and ski around the Grand Montet ski area, where the race is being held, as well then a days pass is only 22 euros.

The editor

According to the big screen at the X-Games Will Gill Rocks!
and so does the Courchevel enquirer
Sometimes press acreditation is just a tiny bit out of my grasp
A Nikon D300 is a great piece of kit
Nudity and Bring your sisters are never far apart.

Alpine Excess t-shirts

After running out of brand names that begin with C and sharing roughly the same length as Courchevel I have transmogrified a certain credit card logo. These can now be purchased directly from the online store on the web site and would make an ideal present.

Please note item shipped from France will take 3-5 days to arrive in UK. (if the uk post office is not on strike)

X-Games Tignes
For those don’t follow extreme sports after 10 years the X-Games franchise has finally made it across the Atlantic to Tignes. Where for three days the top skiers and snowboarders competed in slopestyle and superpipe disciplines. On Wednesday the 8 best skiers competed in the huge superpipe (20 meters wide, 7 meters high) build just next to the main lift in Val Claret. Unfortunately such big names like Simon Dumont and Colby West were absent from the final.
Of the eight finalists two were French, one of whom Xavier Bertoni, is a Tignes local so there was plenty of support from the crowd. But it was the other French man Kevin Rolland who, after the amplitude and finese of his first run, threw down the gauntlet with an almost perfect score. No one else could come close to his 95/100. Xavier finished 2nd making it a French 1-2 and I’m sure there were a lot of sore heads after all the celebrating. As always photos from Wednesdays slopestyle practice and superpipe final are available on the enquirer website.