Summary: Stingray - 143 Stingray PMN Page Stingray website Olympic Winter Games 2006 draws to a close at end of week 2 2 feet of snowfall in the 2nd week - Winter Wonderland Friday snowing on the way up and still snowing Saturday morning Sansi lifts still shut so Cesana - Claviere for a days knee deep powder fun visibility is excellent even during snowfall The woods above Cesana - endless backcountry - through the trees Sunny intervals in the afternoon Italian hope crashes out of Sestriere Slalom The Saturday night party is cancelled Kingsdown - Signs Kingsdown PMN Page Sunday morning - glorious sunshine - crisp and clear 08:50 outside the back door clipped in and nose pointing downhill first run from La Sellette into the woods dividing 72 and 78 down to soleil Boeuf up to the Roccie Rotonde - back all of the way down 72 head to Rio Nero but its closed - snowcats working Milky Way has done us proud - open a day early - and almost everything open pistes 18 19 and 20 and 21 even rio Baucet - down to the intermediate 2300 Gondola station then down the Fraiteve run top of WMN DH - cut right to powder wall 21 and into the woods at the Northern extreme - bottom Colombiere these woods are fantastic - and I was the first through them Monte Rotta woods in the afternoon - followed by 72 off-piste and then 21 o/p again this time from the very top of rio nero - the guards let us through ?? back up La Sellette then head for home via 3 trips round the Baby big air jumps off the path in the powder - til 5pm and Im exhausted but extatic Jims Big Ego - WTFMFWTFAYT? Jims Big Ego PMN Page bigego website [23.6MB 32:26 96kbps]
