Val d'Isere Archives - Page 18 of 31

Alistair–Off Piste

Today was about taking Alistair out of his comfort zone and leaving the realm of theory and exercises. Skiing is[…]

Snow in Le Fornet had been blasted by high winds and so it was never going to be easy to[…]

On meeting Leen this morning she was clearly suffering from painful calf muscles – so the day began with a[…]

Leen has had one previous experience on skis when at age 12 she was told to snowplough and left to[…]

Today’s session started off innocuously enough with a simple brief warm up run. My intention was to just do a[…]

Not quite Heliskiing here – the helicopter just happened to pass when the filming started. The snow was layered and[…]

Miserable weather brought Derin a dispensation from skiing – however it was probably the wrong move being her last day[…]

Derin experienced a few “firsts” today! Her first lesson on a Bumps run and her first Black Run. On both[…]

Edge Control Travelling on the chair over to Val d’Isère was a cold and windy experience but brave little Derin[…]

Day two and Derin is up and running. When the slope is not intimidating or tricky she can already […]