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No snow Sunday in Les Gets
Looking back from the Nauchets Express into the Ranfoilly bowl. Remmants of artificial snow only. But the lifts are open with the Bruyere run into the village just about open and the Violettes run to the Nauchets still passable. Looking up the Gazelle black run on Mont Chery – not a spec of snow anywhere.…
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Les Gets to Ardent (Avoriaz) free bus!
A gorgeous sunny day today with temperature over 10 degrees. Les Gets has now organised a free bus direct to Ardent from outside the Mont Chery bubble car. They depart at 08.45, 10.00 and 12.00 returning at 13.15, 15.30 and 16.45 from the bubble car station at Ardent. TC Ardent is very fast so its…
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From Les Gets to Avoriaz – rain to snow
Due to the overnight rain here in Les Gets and the lack of snow. We decided to try our luck in Avoriaz which at 1800metres is 700metres above Les Gets. Much, much better snow and obviously quite crowded, the off piste bits are still very icy but the pistes were in quite good condition. Here…
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Boarding in Les Gets
The snow might be dreadful with only a handful of blue runs open but that doesn’t stop me geeking out . Here is a map of where I went boarding this afternoon, made by strapping my GARMIN Etrex to my helmet and then importing the track log into my Memory Map. Overlaid is my speed profile…
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A Happy New Year
Finally got around to writing a new post (I attempted one earlier but the PC crashed and lost it!) As Ellee reminded me its now 5 weeks since I posted which is some sort of record in my 6 years of blogging. I thought I would do a quick round up of the year. Here…
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Autumn in Cambridge
Autumn has finally arrived here in Cambridge. Here’s a couple of shots I took today between the rain. This one is outside Parkside pool. The new pool opened in May 1999 at a cost of about £12m the inside is now in a shockingly bad condition with the main internal support columns having heavy corrosion the…
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Following in the wake of Hereward
The Wednesday Walk this week was from Ely to March on The Hereward Way (I now know why he was called Hereward The Wake – obviously because he had to wade or boat through all the fens leaving a wake behind him!). This also is part of the E2 connecting The Fen Rivers Way to…
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My Treo is in a RESET LOOP! How do I stop it?
Michael invited me to hear his boys play at the Man on the Moon with their band Rhythmic Thrust, unfortunately only got to hear their last few moments and I got charged 4 quid to get in! Sounded better than the last time but still not as good as at Michael’s 50th party. However, the…
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Congratulations to Paddy & Andy on reaching Istanbul
Following on from my post when I met Paddy in Les Gets. I now notice from their blog that they reached Istanbul on October 31st . This is a rough map of his route taken from their pedometer here Great achievement for both of them.
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Ouse and Wash up the Nene
Continuing my grand 3000 mile E2 walk. I’m now connecting up the bits I’ve walked this year (Pennine Way (250m), Alpine GR5 (350mile), Fen Rivers Way (50m)). So on Wednesday with my new found walking companion, Sally_from Norfolk, we walked from Kings Lynn to Wisbech along The Nene Valley Way. A great day, with…