Fairly miserable weather day on the mountain with restricted lift operations and overcrowding on the few areas that were open[…]
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Crash course in skiing fundamentals – as much as can be crammed into 3 hours with 5 students and icy[…]
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Derin’s first ever off-piste experience! The crashes are all a perfectly normal part of it. Her use of dynamics –[…]
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No photography today. The conditions – snow and weather combined were probably slightly overwhelming for any 10 year old. All[…]
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Today Derin skied her first black run – an icy Face de Bellevarde. She managed without any difficulty. I’d been[…]
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Work and play today! Derin actually allowed me to train her in technique – in exchange for a little bit[…]
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Today was all about getting Alp onto some far longer suitable runs that would provide far more opportunity for feedback[…]
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Quite an impressive amount of skiing today from Derin. We started with a non-stop descent from the Grande Motte chair,[…]
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Today was mainly reinforcing and consolidating progress. Notably we returned to the blue piste several times (instead of the usual[…]
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Derin – after riding up the Funicular for the first time ever. (Mont Blanc to the right – Mont Pourri[…]
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