#7 Snowboard Cast for Monday January 30th 2006

Podsafe Music Network (PMN)The Argyle Pimps - Argyle Pimpin The Argyle Pimps PMN page The argyle Pimps websiteFriday snow in the valleys - Saturday and Sunday 30cm - 40cm - 50cmSaturday morning 10 cm alreadyMilan airports closedTurin-Bardonechia motorway closedout at 10 - snow getting ever heavierpoor visibility above the tree line1300 - 2700 run 72 - off-piste tempting - one or two excursionsextra 10 cm set down during the dayprevious tracks covered by the time you get the the lift up againthrough the woods - fresh tracks - between run 78 and run 7618 bottom section of Olympic run - fresh powderstopped the 2nd time down4 O'clock - no one to stop me on run 18 - to get homecouple of trick runs on the lowest 4 man Baby Sansicario in front of the houseSuperEgo - ken SuperEgo PMN page SuperEgo websitesunday morning - total fresh now up to 25-30 cm lower and 40-50 cm upperrun 72/74 - off-piste in and out of the trees - this is like 2 years agotop 79 - much better visibility - powder all the way downLower 79 75 79 - by mistake going for my favourite off-piste run79 75 dropping in between 79 and 82 parallel to old rogies draglift 40 -50 cm powthis the best of pow in the treesmeet the English couple from Milan - Johan79 75 82 - round the back and down - the woods above Pariol !!!Monte rotta arearun 21 - never been open this season and still isnt - but now through the treesback over to Ski Lodge - La Sellete - once more down 72/74 then up and over to 18 off-piste and carry on through the trees to end the day with my favourite off-pistethat was a classic right leg burnback up on the last lift at 16:25 - across to Soleil boeuf and then down 18couple of runs on 4-man baby sansicario - riding switch in pow - nailed itfall-line half-cab and back-side 180 - is it easier in pow ?Matthew Ebel - Drive away Matthew Ebel PMN page Matthew Ebel website [20MB 29:00 96kbps]