Mel/Ems causes chaos…no idea who started it.. Out with the other Mountain Mavericks hosts Before everything went all pete tong! Last day off I decided to take out my favourite little board Burton 154 Dominant, which suffered an injury last year on the snowball rally losing a lot of base right next to the edge.… Read more »
Happy new year everyone, sorry it has taken a while to update but I have chosen to sleep instead of blog…and I probably should be doing the same now…but thought I would update you with a few photos. The bears are there to make everyone happy….I think…. Me and wifey Our friend Dave swings all… Read more »
So guests arrive sunday, and leave 8 days later. We cook them breakfast in the morning, and a 3 course meal in the evening. It will come as no suprise to you that on our day off…we are shattered.Despite this, we got up for first(ish) lift on Wednesday and rode all day! Heading over to… Read more »
SNOWBOARD! Change over day has a reputation for being a challenge…but I think yesterday was a proper mission for all involved! Our first bunch of guests arrived at 2 after traveling since 4pm, and our second lot of guests arrive between 1130pm and 1230am, our final bunch of guests were missing from these transfers…We got a… Read more »
Would love to stay and chat, but the snow is falling, it’s christmas, and we can go snowboarding….Au Revoir!
I hate fridays…so far anyway, everything seems to want to go wrong on Fridays. We were meant to be doing our shop, and it turned out my “I have the card” statement was a total lie…it was my GoPro in my pocket not my wallet…oops…all the way back home and only to realise I forgot… Read more »
“A nagging wife is like a dripping tap” – so they say Well it is now our regular day off on a wednesday and it is nearly 11am and I am still in bed. Ems is up, ready and nagging me to get up because she wants to go ride…I never thought things would be… Read more »
Well, me and Ems have been here for a month now, and with 10 days snowboarding under our belts, we are feeling pretty good. Chalet hosting is hard work as we expected but it returns so much reward when you get nice guests, our first week was a snowboarding camp where we hosted 10 guys… Read more »
Mountain Mavericks team off for a shred
Amazing view from the top of the Fornet lift
After watching the Age of Stupid (a film about climate change etc) Ems and me decided to try and do our little bit for this planet, by driving over to our snowy destination. Firstly let me say that if you drive over by yourself, it does not actually work out better, as the emissions etc… Read more »
Just thought that I would give you a quick insight into the stuff we will be driving over this coming season. Between us we have 2 UK VW transporter shuttle buses and a french Renault Espace (left hand drive, resulting in the door being punched when it’s gear changing time!). The VW is a really… Read more »
Ems working in the kitchen while the snow dumps down outside! Rude Chalets accross the road Well, it has been 23 days since we set off and so far we have been out on the board 7 time…not bad going I don’t think! We have been dropped in at the deep end hosting for 10… Read more »
Snowboarding wooooooooo!
WOOOOOOO! The rain has gone! The view from our window blows my mind everytime I go over and look, it is incredible. Bearing in mind that when I go to the window and look up, the top of the tree line is extremly high, you can imagine just how high I have to look to… Read more »
This one is for you Lucie 🙂 This is the view from our chalet kitchen window. The snow is pretty much gone due to heavy rainfall, but should apparently make the snow better for riding as it will for a harder more compact base for fresh snow to sit on. These are the wise words… Read more »
Technically our 3rd day on the hill, but only the second while the lifts have been running. We decided to go back up…just because we could, and it was worth it. We hit a load more off piste today and it was well amusing! See the following video of Ems on her off piste antics:… Read more »
After 10 days of being here, we finally got to go out and hit the piste! It cost us 15 euros each though as the season doesn’t officially start till next weekend and only a select few lifts were open. We were happy enough to just get our riding legs back on the blues and… Read more »
