After a hectic couple of weeks of getting to Chamonix, finding a place to live and getting work sorted out, it's been great to get to work on learning to ski properly. There has been a fair amount of snow and we've had some amazing days skiing at Grand Montets, Le Tour, Courmayeur, Brevent, Flegere and Les Houches. I've also had my first couple of touring experiences...last week Gary and I headed to Les Houches to work out how skins work, neither or us had done it before and it was quite amusing: I'd got my hair stuck in the glue before I'd put them on and we found out that skins don't quite work when you try to head straight up 45 degree slopes...in fact you slide backwards at quite an alarming rate and can't quite stop!!
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