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DaringRed - Game over

I was expecting some extraordinary description of yastrebets from you DaringRed but what an anti - climax.

Night Night all

Im going to finish now with a bed time story just for you DaringRed.

Once upon a time i got on a godola. It took me 25 minutes to get to the top - ish. A short walk carrying skis and down the stairs i walked forward and to the right to a little levelled area. I notice the edge infront of me and some steel re inforcement bars sticking out of the ground about 2 feet - odd. I put on my skis and continue to the right, down a slight incline towards the ambulance piste basher with the magic carpet over to my right. I ski towards the drag lift over to my right. As i get to it i decide that i want to see the gondola again so i notice a little passage between the beginning of the drag lift and the cafe on my right. I nip through this little cut and am amazed to see a majic carpet with a man sat in a little box. The majic carpet actually has grey carpet running up either side of it and a majic tarpauline tied all the way up on the left hand side. It quite a steep drop of to my left and the tarp is beginning to flap around in the wind as some of the bungy hooks have come loose. I notice that some of these bungy hooks are attached to long metal rods driven into big rocks. I didnt remember seeing those in any photos or in any piste map so this was new to me

I get to the top of the majic carpet, ski forward heading towards the gondola about 5m and i turn to the right. Not much snow has fallen today so there are large rocks protruding from the ground about 18 inches in the middle of this narrow path at the base of the stairs so i remove my skis and walk back upto that levelled area with the steel re inforcemnet bars sticking out. I again put on my skis and travel down the little narrow gradient. This time the piste basher and a skidoo want to get past so we all move to the side to give it room - just. I again ski down this little slope whilst others snowplough. A clear small gravelled area is on my right as i go down. I then decide to ski towards 10 oclock and glide behind a cafe - keeping it to my right. We head across a flat area towards a track and ski down the track, twisting and winding nice and slow really as its quite flat and my wife doesnt like it being this narrow. We continue down. Steep ish bank to our right, edge of mountain to our left. We eventually come to a crossroads were we are crossing a black. The wife decides to continue on the track and bears a sharp left further down. At this crossroads i decide to swoop down into the steepish but short end of the black to leasurely carve down to the 4 man lift. I wait for my wife who has taken the easier route. I look at the turnstyles and look to the left at the hut. Its looks like a cafe as it has a serving hatch but its not a cafe and the people sat at the tables to the left are drinking from flasks.

We get on the lift and rise up, watching the boarders enjoying the off piste below us. No tall tree lined runs up here, just little 2 or 3 foot shrub type trees line these runs. Off piste is possible between these shrubs in places though. We get to the end of the lift and we come off forward. If i go left i can ski down a little further and turn left again for a red but i want to find the furthest drag lift so continue forward and go off piste at 11 oclock. After a while i come face to face with the drag lift crossing infront of me. I continue on.

Picked that up from the piste map folks - More next time night night