Colorado

I came back on wednesday morning from Colorado. It's been a fantastic way to spend 4 days. Richard's family invited me to stay with them in Winter Park. I'm really lucky.

I rented some really good twin tip skis made in Colorado: Liberty SB170


My impressions about skiing in Colorado:
- Very good quality snow
- Hard to breathe on the first day because it is so high in altitude
- Great weather most of the time (some really strong winds on the first day, though)
- Trees everywhere, even in high altitude (until 11.500 feet)
- sick terrain park and half pipe. This is really high quality stuff for experienced freestylers.
- People can ski very well. You see very few unexperienced skiers. After all, they need to make a long trip from the densely populated areas to reach the slopes.
- The vistas are not as impressive as in the Alps: the mountains are rather round.

A few things I had never experienced while skiing in the Alps:
- Eating a burger at 3000m. That's unheard of in Europe!
- Tree skiing on a "regular" run. No need to go off piste, the gladed terrain is where to look for good snow, fun turns between the trees, and some rather technical steep slopes. We didn't have a chance to experience the double diamond runs, but I
m sure they must be scary! Next time maybe?


I just had time to publish the pictures on my Picasa album before my laptop died. That's the second laptop failure in a year! These things are really unreliable!

As usual, click on the picture below

Ski Winter Park

Lately

I have had a quite busy social life recently, with the visits of Nicolas from France, Eglantine (and her colleagues from London), Danny (from LA and Spain). And I also met with the Wallaces from France and Aurelie from Japan.
I don't have too many pictures, still waiting for those from Eglantine.

This week is a special restaurant week in NYC, I'd like to go eat in some nice place. Usually fancy restaurants are way too expensive, but this time we don't have to get into debt for haute cuisine.



At the end of next week, I'm flying to Denver to spend 4 days skiing in Colorado, being invited to stay with Richard and his parents. Actually, I have not skied in two years, how incredible? The last winter I spent in France I went skiing 19 times! Anyway, this is a kind of a dream vacation, for when you;re used to ski in Europe, the Rockies snow quality is legendary. Let's see ;-) I should get plenty of pictures this time!

And here's a nice little video I found yesterday (I felt as happy as the little boy just watching it). I really like the tune, and the video depicts some familiar US landmarks. There are indeed some great places to visit in the US.
Somebody told me the music was used for Star Academy in France. I don't care, I've never watched that stupid show anyway ;-)