Val D’Anniviers, March 12-13th 2005
13th March 2005
Zinal’s a great village at the end of the Val d’Anniviers and we spent most of Saturday meeting with a local architect to discuss our project.
Sunday we decided to ski at St-Luc/Chandolin which is one of the four distinct stations in the Val d’Anniviers. We parked near the funicular in St Luc, the funi’ takes you straight up into the St Luc ski area. From there we headed over to Chandolin and the Illhorn area finding a great little restaurant (above) for a drink.
The skiing’s terrific, the runs are really narrow in places and probably would not be to the taste of some skiers, but, we enjoyed them a lot. The snow currently is about perfect for piste conditions, it’s hard and maybe slightly icy but fast and fun.
The terrain is just incredible and there was a competition on, the Quicksilver First Track Freeride in fact on this slope:
It’s a popular areas for this, Grimentz was hosting a Freeday on Saturday which is part of the giantXtour series.
We finished off the day with a ride up to the high point which is the Bella Tola at 3027m which has some excellent skiing taking you back down to the funi’; all in all an excellent day with perfect spring conditions and just great scenery.
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