Trying out the Snoworks Instructor Course
Tearing up Tignes Resort, France, with the Snoworks Gap Instructors I’d never skied this early in the season. It was November 15 and according to the Tignes webcams, that I’d been religiously checking, at resort level there was little more than mud and grass. Worse, to boot, according to our transfer driver Ben, it had been raining at resort level. There were collective groans around the minibus. We’d all come hoping, despite knowing deep down it was unlikely, that there would be a decent base layer by now and plenty of the good stuff to speed our path down the mountain. After a couple of hours of relentless, heavy rain and a pleasant, if distracted, drive through the haute tarantaise and haute savoie , we reached the town of Bourg St. Maurice. Famous for being the terminus of the snow train and the launch point to the largest ski areas in France and therefore the world. We stopped briefly for the drivers to fill up the minibuses. Job done, Ben got back in the minibus with exciting ...