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Some vid here https://www.instagram.com/share/BAgrroLgvS .

Food is actually quite reasonable if you don’t eat out breakfast lunch and dinner . Euro is almost on par with the dollar . In meribel where I stayed there were two small grocery stores within walking distance and unreal specialty food and wine stores where you get yourself into trouble . We ate salami truffles and cheese every meal. My 12 yr old ate boxed Mac and cheese at the condo every meal. Lodging is expensive. We stayed in the cheapest of the 3 valleys. Courcheval is Russian oligarch money. Gucci stores . Val Thorens high end Brits. Méribel-Mottaret was Dutch and French locals . The higher the elevation the more money lodging is due to snow levels . .

Final musings sitting in the CDG airport on the way home from Meribel. For an entire week I didn’t see one lift breakdown . They have 183 lifts of all shapes sizes and makes . While watching social media at home all I saw was lift break downs and missing ski days . The stat I read is that the Les 3 vallees system serves 265k people a day. We never waited more than 10 minutes . There are zero lifties. It takes some getting used to but everyone gets on the lift chaotically but fast . The crazy thing for a first time European skier was the lack of safety. It really slowed me down knowing that if I were to wipe out at 50+ mph I could end up down a ravine and off a cliff . My 12 year old terrified me all week who is sowing his oats with speed trying to keep up with his 15 yr old brother . The sledding at night on the mountain would get an American mountain sued into the Stone Age. Everyone gets drunk and sleds on the mountain and it’s encouraged. Absolutely amazing . The drinking in general on French mountains is 100100101x worse than American mountains . People staggering drunk trying to get down the hill. The lunches at Michelin star restaurants were mind blowing . I have no idea what we spent on food but it certainly negated the lift ticket savings . The grooming blows away American mountains. Europeans never do first chair and if you could temper your apres you could get absolute corduroy perfection for an hour before a European showed their face . There’s no roof rack on a hearse and my kids can skip college. I don’t think I can ski at Attitash in -10 ever again. No one wears masks in Europe . First masks we’ve seen in a week in the Delta line coming home to Boston. My son and I hiking (with a guide) . .

Very iffy snow. Dumped here in December. Not much January then a few dumps early February. The food is ridiculously good. .

Took the kids to Les 3 Vallées France for Feb break . The scale here is so unfathomable for anything else we’ve ever skied . Conditions are fantastic and pricing is a fraction of a west coast trip. Full week lift ticket for an adult $350. In the second picture every open face you see is skiable . 4 hour ski run from one side of the resort to the other . .

3” Sunday River . Blower powder .

Flipped to sleet in Duxbury

It ain't much but an honest coating in duxbury . .

Never forget .

Yes, I lost my manhood several years earlier when I got married .

Yessir . Avus blue . My dream car . .

20 years ago today. My condo in Weymouth. Sports car pre children. Sad all around .

Currently in danforth Maine ice fishing . GYX has us in the 6-8" Should be a fun morning on the sleds. .

Duxbury destroyer .

Friend in DFW area .