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20th December 2009
Skiing: La Rosiere
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With the worst weather of the year forecast for the south east we couldn’t have picked a worse day to be heading for the tunnel :( With local radio warning only make essential journeys we left Felixstowe – which had only light snow – and with 3 hour reported delays on the A12 just outside Ipswich we took the scenic back route to Colchester via Lawford which although slow going was clear. Our next hold up was on the M20 on the last 30 miles before the tunnel. We arrived late for our train but managed to get another one quickly and made it to France without delay and were very lucky to miss the chaos we heard about later where the tunnel was closed and people stuck overnight !!!! We thought on arriving in France the roads would improve as the French seem better prepared for bad weather but the roads near Calais were horrendous with an inch of ice making things difficult until you made the toll roads 20 miles out!!! Only trouble here was the gritters were out in force, three abreast on the motorway slowing the traffic down as they salted the roads. Made it to our Formula 1 hotel ok and set off in bright sunshine and clear roads although the whole of France was covered in snow. The trouble was because of the very low temperatures everyone’s screen wash was frozen and most were driving almost blind and had to keep stopping to clear screens or throw cupfuls of water over as you crawled along. We made it to our Christmas tree/shop stop at Chambery late at 5 and the last part of the journey went well as not so much snow had fallen in the mountains!!!
After the two day trip down when we vowed never to go skiing again we finally made it to our apartment at 9 in the evening being pleased that the mountain road to La Rosiere was clear!!!
Sunday 20TH Dec
Awoke in our great apartment with wonderful views along the valley toward Tignes to bright sunshine and blue skies with the horrendous journey ‘nearly’ forgotten !!! Being knackered we had a lay in, breakfast, then lunch and only got a half day afternoon pass sadly by which time the clouds were coming in :( It was still but cold we skied into La Rosiere and over to the fort . The snow was excellent although visibility not brilliant. Rob and I did some off-piste in the deep soft snow-I only lost my skis a couple of time!!! Mag and Dan headed back to the trees of La Rosiere and home. With bad light we decided to head back along the crap blue path to the tree runs of Les Eucherts passing a couple being loaded into blood wagons :( We then had a great time skiing the trees still managing to find fresh snow to make new tracks :) My off -piste technique is rubbish but it’s fun trying and at least most of the falls have soft landings !!!

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