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1st January 2015 Skiing: La Chevrerie,France Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered: Thursday 1st January 2015 – skiing at La Chevrerie**** Sunny The New Year was brought in by people in the bar across the car park with a mini rave until 5.30 this morning!! There were about 5 fireworks at midnight but we didn’t see them because we had been asleep an hour and the windows were too frosted!! The bass on the music was pretty horrendous but it didn’t keep us awake until about 5 when we both woke up and lay there listening to it for half an hour but then abruptly it stopped! We couldn’t make out whether the people were in the bar or on the slopes or both! They were projecting lights up into the trees on the other side of the river last night and there was a weird double halo round the moon so there was a lot going on last night! Anyway back to today. We rang Dad and Shirley to wish them happy new year and got the sad news that Jean Mills (an old friend from childhood) had died:( We had our breakfast then headed off across the car park to the lift office to buy our lift passes, two 5 hour passes for 43 euros with insurance:) We went up on the first lift to start Le tour du Roc d’Enfer which is a circuit running between La Chevrerie and St. Jean D’Aulps which is over on the road between Morzine and Thonon so easily available to people skiing at Morzine, but luckily there wasn’t that many people about, especially on our side of the mountain! The area and the circuit were stunning but sadly the snow was pretty terrible! Thin at best, threadbare at worst, rocks, stones, icy patches, the biggest mounds of canoned snow we have ever seen blocking some pistes virtually completely! Big clumps of ice from the piste basher and an enormous ice field at the bottom of one of the better runs!! It was very difficult to relax and even on the best piste there would be points when you would hit a patch of ice which would put you on edge for the rest of the run. We certainly felt like novices again today! There was a mixture of chair lifts, drag lifts and a bubble to help you complete the circuit. We had our lunch and rang Dan at a picnic bench overlooking many peaks including Mont Blanc and down onto the Village of Graydon which had a beautiful looking chapel. The weather was wonderfully sunny and blue and Mag even took her coat off! We were glad to complete our day with no injuries, just completely exhausted and with knackered and scratched skis!! We did a last run on the other side of the river and came up the baby drag lift to the ski shop and took them in for a service so they are ready for our next trip. This will be our last skiing for this trip. Got back to the van for a well earned cuppa and rang Rob for a New Year chat (we were lucky enough to benefit from Vodafone’s offer of giving you a rounded up amount of what you spent on Christmas day on New Years day so we had £10 which had to be used today:)) We had a tea made totally of tins but which was delicious just the same and rounded up our New Years day by drinking the Bucks Fizz from Auntie Diane and eating the truffle chocolates that poor old Jean insisted we ate on Christmas day because they were her favourites. We didn’t manage that but we certainly thought of her tonight. |
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