#11 Snowboard Cast for Monday February 27th 2006

Stingray - 143
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Olympic Winter Games 2006 draws to a close at end of week 2
2 feet of snowfall in the 2nd week - Winter Wonderland
Friday snowing on the way up and still snowing Saturday morning
Sansi lifts still shut so Cesana - Claviere for a days knee deep powder fun
visibility is excellent even during snowfall
The woods above Cesana - endless backcountry - through the trees
Sunny intervals in the afternoon
Italian hope crashes out of Sestriere Slalom
The Saturday night party is cancelled
Kingsdown - Signs
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Sunday morning - glorious sunshine - crisp and clear
08:50 outside the back door clipped in and nose pointing downhill
first run from La Sellette into the woods dividing 72 and 78 down to soleil Boeuf
up to the Roccie Rotonde - back all of the way down 72
head to Rio Nero but its closed - snowcats working
Milky Way has done us proud - open a day early - and almost everything open
pistes 18 19 and 20 and 21
even rio Baucet - down to the intermediate 2300 Gondola station
then down the Fraiteve run top of WMN DH - cut right to powder wall
21 and into the woods at the Northern extreme - bottom Colombiere
these woods are fantastic - and I was the first through them
Monte Rotta woods in the afternoon - followed by 72 off-piste and then 21 o/p again
this time from the very top of rio nero - the guards let us through ??
back up La Sellette then head for home via 3 trips round the Baby
big air jumps off the path in the powder - til 5pm and Im exhausted but extatic
Jims Big Ego - WTFMFWTFAYT?
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