just the usual …….. Zinal
13th January 2007
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The car park was surprisingly busy this morning and we expected a lot of people on the slopes. As it turned out there was a local Valais ski race, in fact three races, two slaloms and a GS, and that’s where the all the people were.
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The pistes are still in good condition but there’s been no substantial new snow for a while now and it’s beginning to show off-piste particularly where the wind has acted. The off-piste itself is a mostly wind-crusted and pretty awkward to ski, you can catch the odd good turn but by and large it’s fairly poor.
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Despite being closed during the week the piste de l’Aigle was open as was the full length of the Combe Durand lift making a fantastic run from 2856m back to the village at 1670m. I skied the top portion off-piste which was good in places although I caught a few rocks before rejoining as the piste goes from blue to black.
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We also saw about the most disgraceful piece of skiing I’ve ever seen anywhere from a young local Valais club member, I wish I had seen which club so I could name and shame them actually. There’s a steep section on the approach to the Chiesso chair, no more than a couple of meters, a group of young club skiers thought it would be fun to take this at full pace and take air. However, it’s a blind jump and there was a young girl probably 6 or 7 years old struggling to turn on so when the worst skier took air he missed her head by a few centimetres, I’ve little doubt had he hit the little girl he’d have likely killed her.
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