One Week in a Canadian Ski Chalet

Well arriving on the 22nd of December, Allison myself and 22 other people began 1 week in our ski Chalet near Mont Tremblant. What a week. On the evening we arrived, we traveled to the nearby access road which was quite steep, and proceeded to toboggan down the hill! Sometimes the sheets of plastic we were using were more slippery than the road/snow so we slip of them into the side snow banks! It was pretty cold though!

Day One, settling in, and setting up the All important Christmas Tree! (O' Tannenbaum)

From night to night, there wasn't alot happening in the local area, so we took it upon ourselves to make our own fun. Stuck with 2 incomplete packs of cards, we resorted to card games such as Ar**hole, and Cheat, naturally the essence of Cheat was taught by the Aussies! When Christoph turned up, we even had a Guitar, this gave us the chance to hear Sven's singing of 'Land down under' (not to be balked at!) and the group of us attempting some Christmas Carols on Christmas Eve.

On the day we arrived, there was massive amounts of snow (about 70cm in some places), this was at the end of the mild week, during which much of it had melted, yet there was still this much left! In some of the earlier shots, (shown in the skiing photos) you will see the really white trees, this only lasted till the second day when it rained and washed away much of the snow in favour of ice!

When we decided on this Chalet, it bragged of Ski Storage, a sort of side mud room. It did however, have a little trouble dealing with 24 sets of skis, boots, poles, jackets, and shoes. But we managed.

As we left, I suddenly needed lots of photos of the chalet, these are some of that which I made:

Above: Bea and Chalet Sign.

Above: William and Matthias. Right: Al and I

Above: Chalet from a distance. Right: Christoph and Vanessa in front of Pyramid Chalet.