First Days

It's started....

Pub Le Ski Lodge has been rocking all week with over 100 chalet hosts training in La Tania. There's new plasma TVs, a big projection screen, newly tiled toilets and Shibboleths first gig is scheduled for 13th Jan.

Courchevelski? Reports in Hello Magazine say that the dodgy Russian Chelski owner Roman whatsesname tried to buy up 1850 a few weeks ago. Even though he was offering 3 times the going rate no one would sell him any of the top chalets - he spent £2m on renting dozens of hotel suites for 7 weeks instead. Well he's bought all the players up (and the referee when they played the Toon) why not a ski resort - stop ripping off away fans at £49 first though...

First day views from the top of Saulire

Top UK free skier Pat Sharples and James Shilton at the top of Saulire
(note the snow plough stance of the trainee instructor)

The empty Saulire bowl - in great condition considering

View from just above 1850 looking up to Saulire on the opening day of 2003/4

A week before the opening day - and it all melted...

The weird snow cannon mounds in La Tania prior to the building of the piste