More snow! Today it's down at around 1100m in the Morzine/Montriond area. It's now 3C outside at 961m. The big question is, do I try going up to Avoriaz again with my skins? There's more snow forecast for this weekend (Sunday). Today apparently they had 4cm and there's another 6 coming on Sunday morning... Should I leave it until Sunday? You decide!
Also, SNOW! Yay!
The snow has arrived! The day after I noticed that the pistes on Mont Chery had been mowed, the snow came! They mow the slopes so that the grass is short and spiky and therefore makes a rougher surface for the snow to lie on - which makes it last longer - very clever.
Anyway, on Saturday we drove over to Samoens via the Route d'Ete over the Col du Joux Plane. The snow line was at about 1200m in Morzine and i'd estimate around 5cm has fallen and was still falling while we were driving over.
On Sunday I (stupidly) tried to go for the first ski of the season butthe snow just wasn't thick enough - about 10cm had fallen in Avoriaz. The snow line in the Avoriaz area was at about 1500m. Today the outside temperature is 4C at 1000m and it's supposed to get down to 2C later in the week.
Can someone explain to me why free-market currency trading is a good thing? I don't get it. I'm just a normal guy trying to convert a large sum of Currency A into Currency B to make a normal transaction. Why should I be at the mercy of uber-wealthy hedge-fund speculators and micro-traders? The British pound has dropped from 1.22 to 1.14 to the Euro in 3 weeks. This drop can be attributed to two things, one of them real: house prices have dropped in a UK (a bit - not much). The second "factor" is the belief that maybe, possibly, the UK might think about doing some "quantitive easing" (i.e. creating money out of thin air).
However, nothing fundamental has changed between the EU and the UK in the last 6 months - everything's around about the same. In fact, today the UK voted NOT to increase QE. Why hasn't the price miraculously jumped back to 1.22 as it was before all these QE rumours started? Why has the currency been allowed to bop up and down between 1.14 and 1.23 over the last six months? This makes absolutely no sense to me and is one hundred percent down to script-kiddie machine auto-buying and selling faster than you can think and random wealthy organisations and people using the worlds economy as their own private casino.
Surely Mr Posen and Mr Sentance would know what effect their comments would have? Why are the minutes of these BoE minutes made public - I don't care what they discussed, i just want to know what the outcome of the vote was - all this information leads to speculation which means that the currency moves on hot-air - literally.
Governments should fix their currency value against a standard (some rare heavy metal whose street price has been pretty constant because there's not much of it around) for a defined period of time (1 year). When there are so many other ways for people to gamble their money away, why do they need currencies, which deeply affect normal people (like me), as well? What's wrong with this idea?
Rant over.
échec /eʃɛk/
(masculine noun)
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Not a bad view from half way up though. This is on Nantaux looking towards Mont Chery with Morzine and L'Encrenaz on the lower slopes.
I was suppose to do 1km in one hour. Instead i did 500m in 40 minutes. Terrible. Terrible, terrible.
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1000m vertical over 2000m distance. Nantaux is in my immediate future starting in 22 minutes.
The route goes up the center and you can just make out the faint outline of the path to the top. Apparently the fastest time is 34 minutes - should be no problem...
