French Alps

[Halon]

My girlfriend, my co-worker Jenna, and myself are all taking a vacation to the French Alps the first week of March! I'm real excited as I can't even remember the last time I took a vacation. I've done a lot of traveling in my life, but it's always usually been work related, not for a vacation.

Some of you may remember my European co-workers that came to a couple meets. Well Fabian (the Belgium guy) is booking our rooms at Val Thorens right now. He'll be meeting us there with a couple of his friends as well, and we'll get to spend about a week out there! I can't wait to get there, do a ton of snowboarding, enjoy it all, and take lots of pictures! I've never boarded outside MN!!!

OK just wanted to vent and share my excitement! Here's a link to the place we're going :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Thorens
http://www.valthorens.com/winter-en/home-page.1.html
http://media.ski.com/trailmaps/tm_valthorens.jpg
http://www.totalski.com/totalski/images/Val%20Thorens2.jpg

[C3L1CA]

Wow that looks like so much fun. Looks like the runs might last a little longer than 30 seconds like ti does on the hills we have here.

Have fun and take lots of pictures!

[scheides]

Damn.

[A//// Guy]

Dude im jealous! We need pics when you get back!!

[Goat Blower]

Wow, that looks like a sweet place. I've never boarded through the clouds before. MN hills really suck compared to actual mountains.

[SnoEclipse]

I spent many, MANY days at VT and the whole of the Tres Vallees (3 vallies) when I lived over there. You MUST get over to the '92 Olympic Downhill (Piste Killy) to ski that beast. Even after almost 20 years it's still considered one of the toughest Olympic downhill runs ever.

[rose0529]

Damn, that looks amazing!

[FattyBoomBatty]

Wow, that's one amazing picture. I need to do this one day (soon).

Oh yeah, tell us how bad the smell is up there! ;)

[Halon]

No Olympic runs for us. Most us of snowboard, and the ones who ski aren't badass skiiers. For me, just some fun carving around, the occasional jump, that's what I like. I don't want to die!

[Shane@DBPerformance]

That looks awesome.