Avant toute chose, Press digress ...
Wimereux, Pas-de-Calais, France; One of the LA Times!
is what it is famous ch'nord!
But rather spend a result of the weather ^ ^
The cinoche, stars and glitter, it's nice, but it takes up (unfortunately) not all parties of a young intern in LA!
Thus, and also to experience the situation where I'm supposed to be for a week after the French news (buried under four meters of snow and no electricity), we decided to go skiing.
Oh yes, it is America after all, where if you want, you can! We wanted, and we therefore pouvu ...
"we / you" = Lawrence and me. Account of a day that was anything but a working meeting ^ ^
Reveille five hours on Sunday (new record), and presto! By car at 6:30! Too bad, it was decided to zap the mass. After an hour and a half to blackmail whatever the variety of tubes and French has fewer tubes, we arrive at Mountain High (north-east of LA - and then to 1.30 by car) ...
Mountain High, four tracks and two ski lifts! Except that
Semifinals Superbowl require (Or else, we'll never know), it will be only two runs and a chairlift open for the day. Ah? Well ... Finally, the package of four hours was perhaps not such a bad idea against that of eight ...
approximate rental stuff (in fact it is the binding settings that seems rough, um ...) and presto! ... we are ready to slide down the slope ("hills" instead, since there are two tracks!)
We decided to go easy on, just to preserve our physical - poor creatures we are, tired, and especially fitted bodies that have experienced recent physical activity months of relative intensity ...
But the thin layer of snow is good and the track black American standards turns dark green at the most for us Europeans ... And "blue" is worse than green light ... Our reluctance to reveal fleeting and therefore we soon to be launched more or less top speed all over the white slopes, the sun warming us generously the body (uh, except up there where I nearly lost my hands after having had the misfortune to leave the gloves to take a picture for you ... all the way!)
Sunshine So, yes, because I remind you that we are still in California, very little away from LA, and indeed in the middle of the desert! Already
the side "I swim in my pool in LA and two hours later I'm on the tracks," it's pretty surreal in itself, but what is even more is getting off the chairlift, d be facing down the slope and to have his eyes, the eye, the vast arid desert, without a single snowflake ...
"Surreal, but nice!" ;-)
A Lau-dressed! Ready, Mr. ... Attache
Quality equipment
The team skied fine (some anyway ...)
THE ropeway, the "Mountain High Express
Enjoy the snow ... and the desert ... if so, behind ...
THE track! (I do remember the sweet name)
... thats the skier Sir!
"There's a shadow on the Snow"
the sun ...
... cold
Break mulled wine requires (rather cold beer - that's fine; except for pee breaks already at the base ... ... .. . !)... but I digress
Surrealist I told you
Here, the snow in California, it's done! It was not to allow the monopoly to DC, Quebec and Sweden ... Welcome
in LA: on your left, The Ocean, On Your right, the mountain!
Another side of the California dream after all ...
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