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Member#: 522 Location: Registered: 26-01-2004 Diary Entries: 38
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8th February 2004
Snowboarding: Les Contamines - French Alps Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Lots of snow the previous week Air Temperature: 21 Celsius Sea Temperature: Weather: 6 Days Sunny, 1 day shite Max Speed: Distance Covered:
Had a wicked time in the Alps, its only my second ever time snowboarding
and last time I went I was complete shite and came home with about 30
bruises. This time though I rocked, and did all the red and blue runs but
didn't try any of the black ones. The resort is nice I would reccomend Les
Contamines to most people (intermediate/begginer level), its a nice quaint
village/town (French) with enough bars/restuarants to keep people happy for
at least a week or maybe longer. The altitude of the village is 1190
metres which ain't that high really but the boarding/skiiing is done above
1900 metres and there are two cable cars running there from the village.
Six of us went together and we stayed in a chalet with lots of other people
and it was great. Basically everyday was the same which consisted of a)
getting up at 8:00am b) getting the lift up to 1900m c) snowboarding until
midday c) lunch + drinking beer in t-shirt in glorious sunshine d) coming
back to village about 4:00pm e) shower than getting extremely pissed. What
an excellent time. Also spent an evening on a skidoo. This was in fact
the cheapest holiday we could get in the Alps yet I enjoyed it much more
than I did when I went to Les Arcs 1800 last year. Can I just add that the
French people I met were extremely friendly as well (shock horror). Oh by
the end of the holiday I was attempting a few ramps and managed to
snowboard into the side of a hut at least once (no injuries though).
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