If youÃÂre reading this on Sunday you might notice an un-eerie calm in the bars with the absence of a certain Will Gill. No endless rounds of Jagerbombs, no crates of manzana to the bottle bank, no trademark red/white salopettes passed out under the king table. For the past two weeks Will has been the catalyst to many a drunken night. Seasonnaires who have got caught up
Whenever the end of March arrives thereÃÂs an uneasy air of competitiveness that descends upon the Jump bar and certain Scottish lasses named Jen. Simply reading through the list of teams for the three-valley rally shows this. The Jump team was named ìYouÃÂre going down Jenî only to be retorted by JenÃÂs team ìWhile youÃÂre down there Jump barî. Both t
Checkpoint 2 Not the toughest clue of the entire race but the one that caught the most people out. ìGo to the village in 1400 and go the to Lodgeî. The key words here are VILLAGE and 1400. Meribel Village is based at 1400 (La Tania is 1350) and the check point was at Lodge du Village. Why people would think that two consecutive checkpoints would be in the same valle
Whilst first considering the idea of doing a checkpoint for the 3 Valley Rally there were visions of myself, sat in a deck chair, supping away on a cool beverage whist enjoying a healthy flow of banter with my Ass Man (Toni), with the occasional task of ushering through a drunken team with a quick wink and a clue. As you can imagine it was not something I needed ponder ove
Before I start spouting superlatives about the event I have to have a little bit of a rant. And as usually itÃÂs about general seasonnaire spirit. I ask you how is it possible for Verbier to have 4 coach loads of spectators, Zermatt with 2, Meribel and Val dÃÂIsere with 1? and Courchevel could only muster a paltry ? a coach load of supporters to a day widely described
The biggest surprise this year came from Verbier who stepped up their game from last year. In their first race against last years champions they immerged victorious wining 7 out of the 13 races. This was followed up with a 7/6 victory again Val dÃÂIsere. Had Zermatt not beaten Val dÃÂIsere by a larger margin 10/3 Verbier would have gone through to the final. Instead t
