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Historic questions on the 3V Les Trois Vallees
Historic questions on the 3V Les Trois Vallees
1) Does anyone remember having to ski over a road surface on the way to Val Thorens ? The piste seemed to run out and you could see a strip of lightly snow covered asphalt that must have been a road before you descended into Val Thorens itself ? Am I imagining this ? 2) I think this was around 83/84. What I remember as a route where you took the furthest lift in the Meribel valley on the LHS of the valley as you looked up. You topped a ridge. On the other side of the ridge, which must have been the Courcheval watershed, you descended into a sort of bowl but you needed to descend around to your right. The moguls here always looked like they had been dug by a backhoe, late season, and were taller than you were. You skied through tunnels. Lower down you hit a piste/itinerary. You seemed to ski down a valley, not narrow, as I remember it, and on the LHS. At one point you skied down a rise in the ground and there was a rock bluff to your left. If you poled up the rise to the rock bluff, there was jump down into soft snow. This is what I am trying to find. Where was this. I remember looking for this about fifteen years later, thinking it would be easy to find. But on the route I described, there was a narrow icey track, I think bordered by a river. Not the broader valley I remember. Is it possible that this was the same place, except under 2m of snow ? At that point, I gave up, thinking I must have got it all wrong. Where was this ? Where is it ? Does any one know how to contact Denis Summerbell if he is still around ? If this place is lost in the mists of 3V history, he would be the man who knew. |
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