I can ski and I can snowboard, so I thought I would learn to tele-mark. On my day off I rented a pair of tele-mark skis and boots and got a lesson first thing in the morning. Renaud my instructor took me for an hour and a half (he chucked in an extra half an hour, nice guy, who ever said the French are all bad). At the end of the lesson I had the idea of what I needed to do, and had even done one proper tele turn. My legs however were starting to burn already, but with the gear for only one day I pushed on.
I think I got the hang of it by the end of the day, even if I didn’t have complete control the whole time and couldn’t do a whole run without stopping. I will definitely look to give it another go, even if it did take my legs a couple of days to recover. It was a great day again with no lift lines, perfect snow and sunny, warm conditions.
On the same day, Amelia swapped over her rental board for a brand new Rossignol board as they were having a demo day at the top of the St Gervais lift. We also got to try out a new shockproof Olympus camera and take as many photos as we liked before they burnt them onto CD. All the (good) photos of the day are here.
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