Puy St Vincent
Skiing in Puy St Vincent and surrounding area, January 2006Click on any image to see a bigger version.
View from the hotel restaurant window at breakfast on the first morning |
Alex with hot chocolate and the proprieter's bottle of rum in a small mountainside cafe next to the bottom of the Combe Du Bois black run in Pelvoux |
Stop that! That's silly! ;-) |
Failure to organise a piss-up in a brewery! The brewer - brother of Luc Alphand, downhill skier and Paris-Dakar winner - was absent. |
A tree outside the hotel bar. Chairlift in the background. |
Oliver with helmet |
Nuff said! |
11am chocolate break in the cafe at 2000m (ish). Dan is chatting up a couple of beauties ;-) |
Visibility outside. That's the bottom of the Roch Noir draglift, a.k.a. Air France. |
In the cafe |
Sign warning of the danger of getting your head sliced off by the piste basher winch cables |
Champagne and Kir Royale reception for the BSCD (British Ski Club for the Disabled) |
Jean-Louis, the hotelier, in full flow |
Various BSCD people |
BSCD dinner table |
Dan's birthday dessert. Make a wish! |
It's SNOWING!! :-))) |
See? ;-) |
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Cribbage is a very serious game |
Olly outside our hotel room, Dan just emerging from his. Talk about easy access to the slopes!! |
Terrace of our hotel and the new Station 1400 express chairlift "des pres". It's not a massive walk! |
Hotel |
Bunch of random people |
The chairlift |
Puy 1600 buildings in the distance |
A random skier |
Romper-Suited Tossers hunting in a pack. |
Looking up the green run into 1400 |
The hotel in sun |
Looking up from the bottom of the blue run into 1400 (left under the lift) and red run (centre) |
Olly is delighted to be given Bandit B3s to try out for a day but cannot hide his total lack of colour coordination |
Vic on blades; Myk almost on Vic's Bandit B2Ws. |
Look mum no poles! ;-) |
Snow. And mountains. Yes folks it's a skiing photo. |
People coming off the top of a ballbuster - sorry, drag lift. From the right: Anthony, Myk, Vic, dunno, dunno. |
More snow. And mountains. |
Olly ponders his next bit of mincing. |
The main bowl - playtime! |
I'm leading. I think Dan is waiting somewhere down the bottom... ;-) |
Olly the poirate - yarrr me hearties! Oh well, it was more convenient than wearing his helmet to eat lunch. |
Us at the Gite De Tournoux |
Those people in the background ate all the potatoes and all the decent desserts. Ratfinks! |
We went here via an off-piste trail. A new piste is planned... shame. |
This proved to be wipe-out corner with arriving skiers |
Come on in the snow is lovely |
Oops, I got spotted taking the photos ;-) |
Got enough salad, Olly? |
Er, mountains. And station 1400 down the bottom. |
You can just about make out the distinctive arches of the buildings in Les Pres (centre and right) and our hotel complex (left) |
This piste is all Pete's. |
Outside Mo's (La Goulou) in 1600 |
The amazing crazy Mo with Myk |
Alex bought a couple of bottles in Calais on the way home!! |
Back to blighty - straight down the Waterloo for nosh and, apparently, telephone calls. |