Over 1m of Fresh

This last week has been bizarre.

It’s coming into April and any snow that falls will be good for the morning and then slushy after lunch. Or maybe not.

A cold front has been on us for over a week now gifting us over a meter of fresh. Not only this but the cold conditions have kept the snow perfect for all those January lines that we thought we were going to have to wait until next year to enjoy again.

If you’re waiting to see if it snows, then wait no longer.

It has. Book now.

T

Battle of Waterloo

The battle happened on 18 June 1815. some 200 years later snowboarders from France and Britain took up there boards as weapons and went to battle in the Avoriaz Snow park.

George was official photographer and I was roped in to comparing the day; and what a day.

The battle took place on Saturday and was geared towards fun and finding new talent.

In the morning session French and British amateur riders make there way through the Avoriaz Jump Park trying to impress judges.

At Lunch time over a BBQ Judges announced the winners of the morning comp. the top 3 French and British Amateurs then join up with 3 French and British Pros to compete in the afternoon battle.

As a skier I’m not usually too excited by Gay’s On Trays but Saturday changed all that. The atmosphere generated by everone involved and the crowds watching was electric and the competitors just kept on pulling out amazing stuff: Corked 7s to manuals, laid-out backs off huge 30ft hits, 270s onto crook down rails and much, much more.

The French ended up taking the trophy with constant excellence but the high light for me was from Amateur Billy X (not sure of surname) who had an inspired day. After a crowd pleasing laid-out back-flip he went right back up and without warning nailed a spectacular double-Back off the biggest jump in the world! It was amazing and the smile couldn’t be peeled from his face for the rest of the day.

What a fantastic day.

T

George Makes Front Page

Big Congratulations to George.

George has landed his first front cover photograph. The latest edition of Dark Summer (one of the top UK Free-Skiing publications) sports Georges snap of Pro-Skier Dave Houghton hearling himself of a 50 foot cliff.

The location is Avoriaz. Dave found the drop after spotting a gap in the trees which on inspection had a perfect natural run in.

Conditions had to be just right. George got the call on a Tuesday morning while Ski hosting and quickly made his way (with lucky guests) to the spot.

With a small crowd of guests and friends out of shot Dave stamped the take off point make it firm then side stepped back up the run in.

Dave ran in with Pace and easily cleared the trees at the foot of the cliff landing out of shot.

It was amazing. The angle of shot is great as it shows the magnitude of the hit.

Impressive Jump, Impressive photograph.

T

Dark Summer Magazine
http://www.darksummer.co.uk

TG Sweded

It’s all getting exciting here.

For those that didn’t get our newsletter a couple of weeks ago: Bobby made a film master piece while suffering his dislocated shoulder.

The film was a 2min take off of Arnie’s classic: Predator.

The whole TG ski team were roped in as cast and on a shoe string budget the film has rocketed to the top of a You Tube competition.

Take a look and leave your comments below:

http://www.tgski.co.uk/guestbook.htm

T

Penguin Competition Winners

Never did I believe that such a simple game would provoke such a strong response!
Within an hour of my email we received 30 entries.

Unfortunately we can only reward the first 5 entrants. so with out further ado.

Congratulations to:

Rank Name Time received
1 Owen Bullock 12:14
2 Mark Poulain 12:15
3 Philippos Kyriacou 12:17
4 Zack Wragg 12:22
5 Tim Goodacre 12:23

Thank you all for competing and please; keep slapping.

Tom

ps - If you would like to receive our newsletter then please send me an email.

T

Panda Eyes

It’s been a funny weather week. We’ve had the full spectrum; snow, rain and shine.

It last snowed on Wednesday and has been sunny since, with not one cloud in the sky.

It’s the first time this season guests have left with great big goggle tan lines.

With the weather forecast set for sun all week I think there’ll be a few more Pandas wandering around resort this week too.

TM

More Snow on perfect pistes.

This season has been fantastic so faqr. I don't think we have had a week yet with out at least one blue skied powder day.

Last week it started to rain in Morzine. Doom and gloom spreaded like wild fire. According to the lady in our bakery: "Winter was now over".

Well as per usual 12hours later the freezing level dropped to 800m and snow started to fall. Yesterday we had 5cm in Morzie and 20cm at the top.

The best thing about this recent snow fall was timing. It started to snow around midnight. This meant that all of the pistes had already been bashed.

So what?

This means that a lovely new layer of powder fell on top of perfectly flat runs. The next morning was one of fresh tracks in the knowledge that there were no hidden bumps or rocks to spoil your fun. Gorgeous.

T