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  • borked
    Totally Borked
    • Feb 2005
    • 6284
    #1

    You can't beat Spring Skiing

    I've skied in t-shirt before, but these conditions are just frikken crazy - absolute heaven

    A tonne of snow, nobody on the slopes, 17oC at 3000 metres and 425km of slopes to ski

    Taken today - you really ski for an hour and maybe meet 3 people during that time. Crazy!. Global warming, bring it on




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    • rastan
      Master(bater)
      • Aug 2010
      • 913
      #2
      Fair play to you brotha!! Where were you anyway?
      I haven't been fortunate enough to go this year, but I'll see if I get away twice next season to make up for it! 8)))
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        • dyna mo
          just a fucking jerk
          • Dec 2008
          • 68184
          #3
          that's fun huh! i recall a spring skiing day or 2, short sleeves, made me lol.

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            • borked
              Totally Borked
              • Feb 2005
              • 6284
              #4
              Originally posted by rastan
              Where were you anyway?
              at la plagne, paradiski (wiki entry here)

              Got a chalet here over 18 yrs ago in one of the nicest "working/farming" villages (not concrete carbuncles) way before this resort became absolutely massive. Walk out the door, meet the cows, and on the ski lift. Chalet is now worth 1000x what we paid for it for sure, but we'll never sell it - this resort is going nowhere since la plagne and les arcs were linked (to make the paradiski area) and so the chalet is remaining in the family forever as the kids love the skiiing as much as we do.

              Never skied in these conditions though and probably never will again, so maxing it out big time one week of frikken heaven

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                • greg80
                  Confirmed User
                  • May 2007
                  • 1644
                  #5
                  I agree. Just came back from 10 days of skiing.
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                    • Forest
                      Confirmed User
                      • Aug 2001
                      • 9135
                      #6
                      hate spring skiing

                      give me 10f and dumping 2 inches an hour with a foot or better of pow over a sunny warm day anytime

                      Just skied a foot of pow last week in Utah

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                        • John-ACWM
                          Work Work Work
                          • Nov 2008
                          • 20060
                          #7
                          sounds like a skier's heaven.

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                            • rastan
                              Master(bater)
                              • Aug 2010
                              • 913
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Forest
                              hate spring skiing

                              give me 10f and dumping 2 inches an hour with a foot or better of pow over a sunny warm day anytime

                              Just skied a foot of pow last week in Utah
                              Never managed that in France, but being first down the mountain after a big dump overnight is one of lifes greatest pleasures. First tracks club Breakfast at a restaurant as the sun comes up over the mountain, then first run down chasing the pistebashers. Awesome.
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                                • mrgica
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Jan 2004
                                  • 2169
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by borked
                                  Nice pic
                                  Fuck it dude, lets go bowling

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                                    • Spudman
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Aug 2002
                                      • 3198
                                      #10
                                      I skied La Plagne at the end of January this year and it was the best snow I've ever skied, was quite a nice resort but the runs made it awesome, a lot of good skiing there!
                                      Take it Easy !!!

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                                        • borked
                                          Totally Borked
                                          • Feb 2005
                                          • 6284
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by Spudman
                                          I skied La Plagne at the end of January this year and it was the best snow I've ever skied, was quite a nice resort but the runs made it awesome, a lot of good skiing there!
                                          Yup, we're more over in the Montchavin village than in La Plagne, but it's all the same skiable domain. We're doing the whole week on the glacier - 12500 feet doing excellent black runs really takes it out of you. Off piste is far too dangerous so not bothering.

                                          But, yeah great runs and I do agree hitting the powder on the first trails is just awesome. But so is this temperature!

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                                            • Supz
                                              Arthur Flegenheimer
                                              • Jul 2006
                                              • 11057
                                              #12
                                              looks pretty amazing.

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                                                • Poppy
                                                  Confirmed User
                                                  • Apr 2002
                                                  • 6254
                                                  #13
                                                  Wow, super envious. Kind of eerie, like you are on your own planet!
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                                                    • Choopa Phil
                                                      Confirmed User
                                                      • Apr 2009
                                                      • 3965
                                                      #14
                                                      Looks like a skiers heaven for sure. Take FULL Advantage of that and take more pics! Absolutely beautiful out there.
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                                                        • borked
                                                          Totally Borked
                                                          • Feb 2005
                                                          • 6284
                                                          #15
                                                          Originally posted by Choopa Phil
                                                          Looks like a skiers heaven for sure. Take FULL Advantage of that and take more pics! Absolutely beautiful out there.
                                                          A better panorama from this morning, with the Mont Blanc about 3/4 to the right

                                                          Just discovered the panorama thing on the iphone and damn it's good. Follow the arrow while panning keeping it centered on the line. Easiest thing ever!

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                                                            • Cunnalinguist
                                                              Registered User
                                                              • Feb 2013
                                                              • 27
                                                              #16
                                                              Damn! Very jealous. Looks amazing

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                                                                • lucas131
                                                                  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
                                                                  • Aug 2004
                                                                  • 11475
                                                                  #17
                                                                  cool man, you are like 40kms from me now enjoy, it is a total great here last days! btw, are you renting your chalet? any deals for me?

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                                                                    • borked
                                                                      Totally Borked
                                                                      • Feb 2005
                                                                      • 6284
                                                                      #18
                                                                      Sorry lucas, we never rent it out. Just my immediate family and the in-laws use it whenever we're not there. We use it quite a lot in Summer too as the mountain is a totally different place - great fun taking the lifts up to the glacier with the bikes and doing 2000m drop back the chalet!!

                                                                      Beat my speed record today - 98km/h. Tomorrow, I'm going for 100

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                                                                        • lucas131
                                                                          ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
                                                                          • Aug 2004
                                                                          • 11475
                                                                          #19
                                                                          yeah i understand that, even if you bought it for 1000x less price that its now standart all around this places maybe we can do some bike in summer, as i am planning to stay here in chamonix again from june to november vive la france and do your 100 safe tomorrow!

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                                                                            • ludballs
                                                                              Confirmed User
                                                                              • Feb 2013
                                                                              • 376
                                                                              #20
                                                                              Originally posted by borked
                                                                              A better panorama from this morning, with the Mont Blanc about 3/4 to the right

                                                                              Just discovered the panorama thing on the iphone and damn it's good. Follow the arrow while panning keeping it centered on the line. Easiest thing ever!
                                                                              Awesome pic! Still have never been skiing
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                                                                                • borked
                                                                                  Totally Borked
                                                                                  • Feb 2005
                                                                                  • 6284
                                                                                  #21
                                                                                  Originally posted by lucas131
                                                                                  yeah i understand that, even if you bought it for 1000x less price that its now standart all around this places maybe we can do some bike in summer, as i am planning to stay here in chamonix again from june to november vive la france and do your 100 safe tomorrow!
                                                                                  We'll be up again in August if you want to hit up. Family biking though isnt like the ski cos theres no bloody bike school to dump the kids into while you hit the mountain with the wife grrrr

                                                                                  Ever screwed in a telecabine? So few people here, we christened the glacier telecabines (though sure we weren't the first!)

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                                                                                    • borked
                                                                                      Totally Borked
                                                                                      • Feb 2005
                                                                                      • 6284
                                                                                      #22
                                                                                      Originally posted by ludballs
                                                                                      Awesome pic! Still have never been skiing
                                                                                      Real real shame. It is my alltime favourite passtime. Ok i'm a very good skier now and nothing proves too difficult for me now, but I remember my first few times as if they were yeaterday. The wife also since I bust her nose when I hit her out of control!

                                                                                      I'll be doing this till I physically can't ski. Maybe not at 100kmh but I see pensioners skiing cool all the time. I'll be one one day and will have as much pleasure whatching my kids at that time. And their kids.

                                                                                      You can't beat the views. Just breathtaking.

                                                                                      Sorry for speeeeling errors but I'm on the phone

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                                                                                        • borked
                                                                                          Totally Borked
                                                                                          • Feb 2005
                                                                                          • 6284
                                                                                          #23
                                                                                          Originally posted by lucas131
                                                                                          vive la france and do your 100 safe tomorrow!
                                                                                          Killed it on the first descent of the day


                                                                                          For coding work - hit me up on andy // borkedcoder // com
                                                                                          (consider figuring out the email as test #1)


                                                                                          All models are wrong, but some are useful. George E.P. Box. p202

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