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Darren Taking a break from teaching Ed

Ed Over Taken during Darren's teaching of Ed.

Break Time A common occurrence. Ed and Darren are here.

Aled's Misfortune

Well it had to happen to me! I just knew it would. Bright and breezy and well up for it, I headed out to the mountain on the first day (Monday). The resort runs weren't in a good condition, so up on the gondola to Plan Maison I went with Ed, Michelle, Daz and Kev. Feeling rather brave I got on the chair lift to the top of blue 26 (I think - it was more by accident than planning!). Successfully got of the chair lift (note: I'm still a beginner skier). Got down the blue run in about 20 mins with only falling over twice. Not too bad - much better than I expected.

Feeling much more confident, up I go again. Off the chair lift, down a couple of hundred meters then loose footing, over I go. I see my leg twisting, hear a snap, crack and fall to the floor in much pain. I felt my knee and though, ooh - that don't feel right! Sure enough - knee cap had become dislocated. The pain was quite significant at this time, so I just had to whack it with my hand to get it back into place. Big pain.

I stayed there waiting for the pain to diminish for a few minutes, thinking what to do next. Could I ski down? No. Could I make it back up to the top of the chair lift and get myself back down? Well I tried. And tried, but I couldn't stand at all. Ten minutes later or so, Kev stops by me and sees what's happened. He says "knee", I say "Yes", "Bad?", "Yes", "Need help", "Yes!". So some twenty minutes later I'm being stretchered off the mountain!

This was one of the big missed opportunities of the holiday - nobody had a camera! Seeing a sheep bound up in a stretcher with just a sheep's head poking out the top would have made a brilliant piccy, but was not to be!

Anyway, a visit to the local doctor soon gets me a full leg splint which lives with me to today (a week after the holiday finished!). I think someone is trying to tell me not to go on winter holidays again!!!

Ed's Skiing

This holiday was Ed's first go at skiing for eight years. He wasn't really up for it until Darren took charge of things on the last two days. With Darren's coaching Ed came on leaps and bounds, eventually making a complete clean run of the nursery slope without falling over. A good achievement considering how he was by mid-week.

Last Updated: 23/01/2002