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Last carve in Les Menuires / 3 Vallées

Post by actionreplay » Tuesday 26 April 2011, 15:32

I'm just back from "Les Menuires" which closed yesterday (april 25'th).
Despite the the warm weather during this month, and thanks to a great work with the machines each night, the slopes remained quite in good shape up to the scheduled closing day.

Of course, the domain got restricted (many slopes were closed), but enough remained opened to go back to the center at 1850 m (see in the back Val-Thorens, "Cime Caron" at 3200 meters):

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The three last days, nobody on the slopes (sometimes I didn't meet anybody at all, and some lifts were turning almost empty). So, I ended up going back on snowboard (was skiing previously), and carved in quiet conditions on "le mont de la Chambre" (I had no photgraph, so, only my tracks on the pictures...) :

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The days before, I chose my skis to be more confortable on the changing snow. Very easy carving slopes for skiing even at 2.00 PM in Val-thorens (Boismint slope) :

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Surprisingly, 2 hours before Les Menuires closed, yesteday at about 3 PM, they were able to produce artificial snow for some minutes (for testing/maintaining I guess) :

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Now, only Val-Thorens is still open till the end of next week. It should be still ok, but I'm back to work.

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Post by mirekd » Tuesday 26 April 2011, 21:43

Hi actionreplay !

The photo on top is beautiful!It is suitable for computer wallpaper.
I have this photo in album. It's nice to live near mountains. I envy you a little! :?

I greet!

mirek :wink:

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Photo on the desktop of my computer :)
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Post by actionreplay » Friday 29 April 2011, 20:25

Hello Mirekd,
It's funny to see Les Menuires on your screen !
I'm looking forward to next winter...

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Post by Xgo » Saturday 30 April 2011, 17:26

Hi actionreplay my fav pics were the ones with the carve lines. .perfectly neat. . Shows how good you and the Swoard are :-)
New to snow sports . .now addicted:-) 172/56/raven 155/15 -15 one day 50 45 ish :-)

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