Ep 45 Season pass - to buy or not to buy ?
1 Weather 16th October 2025.
2 Mathieu Faivre retires.
3 Sponsor Team GB's Laurie Taylor.
4 Glencoe : Season pass to buy or not to buy ?
5 Aspen House Chalet from Simply Val d'Isere for Christmas.
6 Drugs, money and guns seized in Grenoble.
7 Tori Ski for Toddlers.
8 Documentary ‘Better up There”.
9 Celebrity sports people at the London Snow Show
10 Experimental Chalet Hotel in world top 15 Wellness Hotels
11 Shake out day for earthquake drills.
- Weather 16th October 2025.
- Mathieu Faivre retires.
- Sponsor Team GB's Laurie Taylor.
- Glencoe : Season pass to buy or not to buy ?
- Aspen House Chalet from Simply Val d'Isere for Christmas.
- Drugs, money and guns seized in Grenoble.
- Tori Ski for Toddlers.
- Documentary ‘Better up There”.
- Celebrity sports people at the London Snow Show
- Experimental Chalet Hotel in world top 15 Wellness Hotels
- Shake out day for earthquake drills.
After a career that included a rare double World Champion, and an Olympic medal Mathieu Faivre has just made the difficult decision to retire now.
If you can, and would like to, please sponsor Team GBs Laurie Taylor.
To buy a season pass or not ? Glencoe are honest about the risk you could be taking.... but there are advantages to season passes..........you might go out for even an hour on a day that you wouldn't want to pay for a full day.
Simply Val d’Isere could welcome you for Christmas - there is a late cancellation for the Aspen House chalet….
400 police and border people were busy gathering drugs, money and guns in Grenoble.
Do you have a toddler that is starting to walk ? Want to set them on skis ? Contact Tori….
Keep your eyes out for this documentary “Better up there “
Forty five minutes Into the life of freeride champion Léo Slemett.
Plenty of good speakers at the London Snow Show this weekend.
The Experimental Chalet Hotel is in the list of the top 15 new wellness hotels in the world.
Shake out day .... to prepare for earthquakes..........we had an earthquake in Villaret last year.
00:11 - Weather 16th October 2025
00:19 - Mathieu Faivre retires
01:04 - Sponsor Team GB's 3. Laurie Taylor
01:20 - Glencoe : Season pass to buy or not to buy ?
03:04 - Aspen House Chalet from Simply Val d'Isere for Christmas
03:28 - Drugs, money and guns seized in Grenoble
03:55 - Tori Ski for Toddlers
04:30 - Documentary ‘Better up There”
04:48 - Speakers at London Snow Show
05:11 - Experimental Chalet Hotel in world top 15 Wellness Hotels
05:28 - Shake out day for earthquake drills
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Good morning Val d’Isère Sunny morning Cloudy afternoon and evening With maximum temperature of 10 degrees
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After fifteen years on the World Cup circuit French Skier Thirty three year old Mathieu Faivre Has decided to retire gracefully Now
You will remember him winning In 20 16
Five years later he achieved An extraordinary double World champion in BOTH Giant slalom and Parallel……….. VERY VERY RARE
The next year he added an Olympic bronze for Giant Slalom in Beijing.
For any professional sports person Deciding at what point you ‘retire’ Must be one of the most difficult decisions of their career |
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Team GB are back training On the Swiss glacier in Saas Fee
As always Sponsorship is gratefully appreciated I have put the link to Laurie Taylors Patreon in the description of this episode |
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Season passes for Glencoe go on sale The 3rd of November The day after the summer season finishes… Early bird prices will be available until Either They open for skiing Or Twenty third of December Whichever comes first !
They are being very open and honest with their answer To the question…. Should I buy a season pass………
In Glencoe this is equivalent to Nine days skiing to break even. In Val it is usually about three weeks.
The Glencoe-Gurus say Only buy a season pass if you already have the money And are in for the long haul……
So buy one year after year…….. As they have four types of seasons Good AMAZING Bad And DREADFUL…. Occurring in two to three year cycles…..
The ADVANTAGES of a season pass…… Which is the same anywhere……
Less brain power each day……….
Is it WORTH skiing today……..
If weather bad Or conditions iffy you can stop after an hour or half a day…….. with your spirit and knees intact without feeling you have ‘wasted’ a day’s pass
I have never skied in Glencoe However In Val Often on the days that you look out the window And think Noooooo Not today……… Once you get out at the top You can have a magical ski day….
NOT ALWAYS Sometimes it is out of the Olympic Once down and home
And even Out of Funival Down the Olympic And home on the bus !
We all know those days….
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As the nights are drawing in And the Snow Show Is this weekend… Maybe you are wishing you had booked For a ski-Christmas………..
Could have the thing for you….
They have a late cancellation For the Aspen House chalet….
Fully catered Sleeps up to six…
You know you want it ! Snap it up !! |
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The gendarmes were busy in Grenoble Early Yesterday morning
More than four hundred police people CRS Customs And border police
Eleven kilos of cannabis resin Ten thousand euros Guns and bullets Along with some Cocaine MDMA
Suspect a few will be heading to jail…
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Do you have toddlers Or grand-toddlers ? Wondering when they can ski ? Ex ski racer SKI INSTRUCTOR Mother of four
BELIEVER that if they can walk… they can ski……. MOTTO Author of If they can walk, they can ski
OK Probably not the FACE For a while…
I have put the link to her website in the description for this episode
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Keep your eyes out for this documentary “Better up there “
Forty five minutes Into the life of Léo Slemett
the thirty two year old freeride champion from Chamonix.
Not only does it highlight His achievements
But covers the loss Of two of his friends.
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Don’t forget that the London Snow Show Is on this weekend. Speakers include Chemmy Alcott Dave Ryding Aimee Fuller Tim Warwood Warren Smith Iain Martin And louise Pode
PLUS The three Carrick-Smith brothers and Molly BUTLER
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Did you visit the Experimental Chalet Hotel last winter ? Not even for a drink in their comfy bar ?? This year it has been nominated one of the best Fifteen New wellness hotels In the world By aviation A2Z……
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From todays choice of 11 World Bread day And UN World Food day Both obvious and very important. I had to look up what World shake out day was….. Shake outs are earthquake drills….. We had one An earthquake, not a drill In Villaret last year……..
I am off to investigate camper vans….. See you tomorrow. |