Work to play.

So the reason people do a ski season is to be able to have the freedom of 6 months playing in the alps. You are working to play. I've spent a lot of time discussing the actual job, but what did i actually get up to in between...

APRES.

Without a fail, we would be there - apres tended to be bigger than our day off night out. Pre drinks at spar and piste above folie, cafe face then somewhere for food. 

HELI SKIING/OFF PISTE.


I took the opportunity to get ski lessons to improve my technique and also use the guidance of an instructor to take me on to more adventurous off piste. We did the tour de cunai which was amazing - we found a little restaurant that had no electricity and water - the owner skidooed all the food up everyday and also saw the old town of val d'isere as well as debris from an avalanche that had happened 2 hours earlier. On top of this, we did heli skiing which was my best experience yet! We skied down some of my hardest runs yet, which ended in a hilarious collision between me and my friend harriet as well as the helicopter landing before we had the safety talk therefore attempting to guide it in to land didnt end up so well! This also meant that when we got off the helicopter, we decided it would be great to take a picture in front of it rather than clear to safety - we were in trouble!!

Tour De Cunai

Avalanche debris!

Eye of the needle

FIRST LIFTS.... on a hangover. Never again. But it was beautiful!

DAYS OUT.

We always made sure we had plenty to do in our time off - whether it be celebrating Vic getting into med school and Sam's sister having little baby Lila meaning we needed a day trip to Tigne Le Breviere and insane amounts of drinking or a hungover trip to Loop bar to soak up the sun. We made sure we were never bored!

 

VIP BONDING.

One thing we were great at was all hanging out together - we had events such as Valley Rally which was amazingly messy, BBQ off piste which also involved a lot of drinking and our end of season party themed 'toy box' which was incredibly messy....

Casual BBQ.

 So we managed to make the most of our seasons, and some of my best memories were made on the mountains with my VIP buddies - without getting too emotional!