Les Gets Posts
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Awesome day in les Gets
Today was my final day on a snowboard this season. What an awesome day – fresh powder, clear slopes and mainly sunshine although some very thick cloud especially on top of Ranfoilly. Excelled myself by covering best part of 30miles and 15,000 feet of descent hitting a maximum speed of 35mph with only one somersault…
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A day in Les Gets
Another great days boarding in Les Gets in spring sunshine, pistes in perfect condition (although of-piste is very ropey) some great runs with Em, who is an awesome boarder – hard to keep up with her :-(. Business wise managed to secure two domains for new blogs I intend to set up for companies here…
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Bear on a mountain..
There seems to be some rum goings on here in Les Gets with the lift company and local politics. One of my favourite lifts, Grande Ourse (Big Bear or Plough constellation), is out of action on Mont Chery. This two seater chair lift is ideal for both the snowboard park and the only blue run,…
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Les Gets header
Managed to get around to uploading a new header today 🙂 . George took the photo using my Olympus SP-560UZ camera (A Christmas present from Sally). I know it looks photoshopped but its the actual image from the camera just resized to 940 pixels wide (from 3264 wide). The photo was taken on Mont Chery…
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Looking good for powder boarding!
Sally the boys and I are off to Les Gets on Tuesday so just checking the webcam 🙂 Its looking very good – can’t wait to get riding on the old board 🙂 🙂
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Rain rain go away.
Another foul day here in Les Gets. Even Avoriaz is now suffering with rain and wind at the tops. Here is the view at the top of the Telecabine Ardent at 1510 metres. Love the carpet of straw to stop you slipping on the ice. Snow now predicted in Les Gets next Tuesday and Wednesday.…