Flaine - February 2006
Some piccies from our ski/board trip to Flaine (France).
We went away with some friends we'd met in Söll the previous year. We all squeezed in a self catering apartment & it was jolly good fun. Jean especially enjoyed Stew's company ;-)
Flaine is a high altitude resort located in the middle of the Grand Massif & has 265kms of runs. It's stark 1960's Bauhaus styling isn't to everyones taste, but you get used to it after a while. We found the French on-slope food prices far more shocking than the architecture!
It was Stew's second week boarding, so he went to board school every afternoon. As they'd got a lot of powder from a recent dump, the instructor took them off-piste.....all week.....he hadn't even got the hang of on-piste by this stage! His board group had all done 4-6 weeks boarding before & were all a tad younger than he was. So he was really pushed & used to collapse with fatigue when he returned at the end of each day ;-)
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Stew, Mel, Nic, Matt, Craig, John & Jean Ready to hit the slopes Stew's board class, aged 8-13!!! Needless to say, Stew took the average age of the group up a bit Mel, Nic & Matt striking a pose Looking towards the Grandes Platieres cable car from the Diamant Noir chair lift Looking up at the Grandes Platieres cable car Panoramic view from Les Grandes Platieres (2480m), Mont Blanc is on the right Stew on Les Grandes Platieres, with Mont Blanc (4807m) capped with cloud behind Smile for the camera Stew & his gang An island emerging from the cloud Stew heading for a jump Matt's jump was a bit more dramatic than Stew's ! Skiing Ski Snowboarding Boarding Board. Bullough54321 ZZ012
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