A Hard Day's Riding
16/02: Les Houches:
Caught the last Easyjet flight on Friday evening from Gatwick. Flying out with Grant Gallacher to have a full days of riding in Less Houches in Chamonix. I’m always impressed with the service I get with Easyjet. However this time round I had a little disagreement with the lady at check-in. She was insisting on informing me on what kind of assistance I required. I had informed that I only needed help up to the security desk as I would meet Grant on the other side, she insisted on getting me assistance up to the plane, and more annoyingly so, she insisted I wait for an hour before the assistance is provided as the flight was delayed. Eventually a much more flexible Easyjet member of staff understood the situation and walked with me to security. On arriving to security I realized I had Nigel in my pocket (Nigel is my tool which I use to adjust the bindings on my board) I declared it and quickly ran with my new found Easyjet friend to where I had left my snowboard, unfortunately it was to late and my snowboard had already been sent on the plane. Having only my laptop bag on my back I decided to put Nigel in my laptop bag and check the bag in. However not having the heart to put my poor delicate laptop through check-in, I decided to take it out of the bag and carry it through security!
Easyjet air stewards are always extremely helpful on the plane, to the extent that Grant thought the male steward had a crush on me when he asked Grant to step a side while he (the male steward) sat next to me and helped me remove my jacket, and then began to take me through the safety procedures.
17/02: Les Houches:
Went to sleep quite late and awoke to the ringing of my phone. Oh dear… it would be Keith and Grant and I had slept in. I answered, trying to sound as awake as one could with 5 hours sleep. I got ready in record time grabbed my board (forgot my gloves) and ran to the door only to stand there for about 5 minutes struggling to open it as the key didn’t work too well from the inside.
17/02: 9:30 am: Showing a bit of leg
Grant and I began climbing the 2 set of stairs which would take us up to the first chairlift. We went as high up the mountain as the 3 chairlifts would take us. It was the first time Grant had been with me outside the indoor slope in Milton Keynes. It was quite momentous. The first couple of runs were quite nice. I was wearing the bright yellow bib I had got made recently. It says on it ‘blind rider’. I had a similar bib in the just as fashionable bright orange for Grant saying ‘rider’s guide’. Grant for some strange reason preferred his Scottish Instructors jacket over the bright orange bib so didn’t wear it. However, if Grant was trying to not attract attention he failed dramatically. As half way down our first run he realized that the zip which goes down his leg burst open revealing his sexy leg to the unprotected eyes of the bystanders! However to give him credit I think he got the situation under control fast.
17/02: 7pm: Hotel Room, Les Houches
Just had an amazing sleep but have slept through my dinner date with Grant and Keith. I feel so refreshed, body is still feeling quite harassed but now the need for some food is high. I’m sitting in a nice cosy room at the back of a building site as this hotel is slowly being converted into apartments.
Its dark and I suffer from night blindness which means that I would be totally useless in finding any food. I made a cup of coffee, had some chocolate and sent Keith a text informing him I was going back into hibernation. I decided not to ride on the Sunday as my body was still recovering and I grabbed an early flight back to good old London town.
Caught the last Easyjet flight on Friday evening from Gatwick. Flying out with Grant Gallacher to have a full days of riding in Less Houches in Chamonix. I’m always impressed with the service I get with Easyjet. However this time round I had a little disagreement with the lady at check-in. She was insisting on informing me on what kind of assistance I required. I had informed that I only needed help up to the security desk as I would meet Grant on the other side, she insisted on getting me assistance up to the plane, and more annoyingly so, she insisted I wait for an hour before the assistance is provided as the flight was delayed. Eventually a much more flexible Easyjet member of staff understood the situation and walked with me to security. On arriving to security I realized I had Nigel in my pocket (Nigel is my tool which I use to adjust the bindings on my board) I declared it and quickly ran with my new found Easyjet friend to where I had left my snowboard, unfortunately it was to late and my snowboard had already been sent on the plane. Having only my laptop bag on my back I decided to put Nigel in my laptop bag and check the bag in. However not having the heart to put my poor delicate laptop through check-in, I decided to take it out of the bag and carry it through security!
Easyjet air stewards are always extremely helpful on the plane, to the extent that Grant thought the male steward had a crush on me when he asked Grant to step a side while he (the male steward) sat next to me and helped me remove my jacket, and then began to take me through the safety procedures.
17/02: Les Houches:
Went to sleep quite late and awoke to the ringing of my phone. Oh dear… it would be Keith and Grant and I had slept in. I answered, trying to sound as awake as one could with 5 hours sleep. I got ready in record time grabbed my board (forgot my gloves) and ran to the door only to stand there for about 5 minutes struggling to open it as the key didn’t work too well from the inside.
17/02: 9:30 am: Showing a bit of leg
Grant and I began climbing the 2 set of stairs which would take us up to the first chairlift. We went as high up the mountain as the 3 chairlifts would take us. It was the first time Grant had been with me outside the indoor slope in Milton Keynes. It was quite momentous. The first couple of runs were quite nice. I was wearing the bright yellow bib I had got made recently. It says on it ‘blind rider’. I had a similar bib in the just as fashionable bright orange for Grant saying ‘rider’s guide’. Grant for some strange reason preferred his Scottish Instructors jacket over the bright orange bib so didn’t wear it. However, if Grant was trying to not attract attention he failed dramatically. As half way down our first run he realized that the zip which goes down his leg burst open revealing his sexy leg to the unprotected eyes of the bystanders! However to give him credit I think he got the situation under control fast.
17/02: 7pm: Hotel Room, Les Houches
Just had an amazing sleep but have slept through my dinner date with Grant and Keith. I feel so refreshed, body is still feeling quite harassed but now the need for some food is high. I’m sitting in a nice cosy room at the back of a building site as this hotel is slowly being converted into apartments.
Its dark and I suffer from night blindness which means that I would be totally useless in finding any food. I made a cup of coffee, had some chocolate and sent Keith a text informing him I was going back into hibernation. I decided not to ride on the Sunday as my body was still recovering and I grabbed an early flight back to good old London town.
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