Now I’m very far from home

I flew into Boston last week for some meetings and I’m staying in Manchester, NH. Mt Sunapee has the best brochure in my hotel lobby and is pretty close by so I headed up there this morning. When I arrived in Manchester it was pretty warm but forecast to turn cold last night and snow. Fortunately I’d taken the precaution of getting an SUV on rental so the snow didn’t stop me getting out.

The full gallery is here.

The fresh snow must have been pretty welcome, it barely covered the ice and tree skiing was totally out of the question sadly. The Fischer RC Sport’s I’d rented handled the variable snow excellently though and were really enjoyable to ski on.

It was snowing on and off all day with a brutally cold wind, at one point I had to return to the car and put more clothes on it was so very cold. I think it even looks cold on the photographs

Having never skied here before what surprised me the most was how quiet it was, I was expecting weekend crowds and busy roads but it was really quite pleasant.

I managed to ski until 15:45 (15 Min’s before the last lift) before deciding it was too cold and heading back.

This is a followup to the previous entry. Rob@rar.org.uk of here on MSS and Snowheads had kindly invited me to spend a few days skiing with him in Les Arcs from his apartment there.

Les Arcs was one of the first places I skied in the Alpes about 15 years ago so it was great to go back again. The domain is much extended now of course with the addition on the link to the La Plagne which we took advantage of on Saturday.

The full gallery is here.

We met up with Peter Garwood over at La Plagne on Saturday along with the large camera that’s producing a lot of the photo’s on MySnowSports. Rob is there in the foreground.

I was pretty amazed that the lifts run so late in Les Arcs which allows skiing as the light begins to fade. I find this pretty atmospheric, empty slopes and great evening light.

Even though I’d been before I’d not remembered how stunning the scenery over at Peisy was.

And finally, the lift guys were practicing rescuing people of the lift. It’s reassuring to know they’re well prepared.

A long way from home in a foreign land

I’m spending a few days over in Les Arcs with Rob from SnowHeads at his place there. It’s some time since I skied here so it’s good to be back.

…..it’s a large one ….

We took the Transarc over to La Plagne to meet PG and skied round into Champagny a little