Today we made an historic return to the awesomeness that is Barbossines. It takes a good 2 hours to get there, not including a quick stop for the world-renowned soupe goulasch in le Fontaines Blanc in Morgins. It is well worth it. Barbossines has it all, steep moguls at the top, even steeper ones in the middle and then the prize: semi-steep, perfectly shaped, stupendously bouncy moguls on the bottom stretch with fabulous snow throughout. After the long mogul field, which deters most muggles from doing it which is yet another bonus of this run as it means you get the slope to yourself, it opens up into a steepish fast, smooth, deserted, black run that you can just go for it on. In short: wow.
Natalie on the run (Tovassierre) down to Morgins.
On the way there i thought i'd re-assert my position as the dominant fast male skier in my group of two and, essentially, show Natalie who's the boss on the timed speed trap in Super Chatel which she won last time.
Well, the snow is very slushy at the moment and the warm temperatures are slowing everyone down. Also, when i did my run i was having really bad contact lens trouble and also a lone gunman was sniping muggles from a nearby grassy knoll and i stopped to help him. Consequently, i only posted a 61kph while Natalie, cheating all the way, and being pulled by a skidoo, and also in the partial vacuum and therefore tail-wind produced from my run, posted a 64kph. Exactly the same difference in speed as last time.
Clearly though, it doesn't count because i wasn't wearing the same salopettes as last time and Natalie's neck-warmer is just the wrong shade of pink for a competitive event. Technically, i won really because i'm taller and therefore my speed relative to my height is faster.
This is me demonstrating the manqué de neige sur la Col du Bassachaux. Actually it's not that bad, pretty good snow actually, but, seriously now, we really need some more snow. Come on clouds!
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