Almost 2 months to the day after the New Year trip we were going back out again. We had rented an apartment at Montroc, near Le Tour, and again we packed everyone in hut style.For this trip we had Dave, Bryon, Nick, Sue A, Martin, Steve, Phil, Chris, M-J, and myself. There may have been a couple of others but I cannot remember them.
In general this trip was more of the same as the others, several days skiing the side of the pistes, a few days extending the touring knowledge and experiences with a couple of odd balls thrown in for good measure.
The first of these was on the first night, we had all arrived early and gone up to the ski area at Le Tour, and then back into Argentiere for food, when most of us left to go back to the apartment, several (Martin, Steve, and Phil) stayed behind... unfortunately they did not know which one it was, just the block.
In the morning they arrived back, with great tales of leaving Martin, with some conquest - Martin was now asleep on the sofa - however they wandered around the block checking for open doors. Finding one they went in, and not wanting to disturb anyone, crashed on the sofas. They suspected something was wrong in the morning when they saw a person they did not recognise wandering around in their underwear. Sneaking out before they caused a ruckus they came giggling into our apartment.
The second one was that Sue A had decided this year to go Veggie ... this caused a real problem in that every meal needed to have special separate preparations, not that we minded, it was just extra work. Then when it came their turn to prepare dinner, we all had to eat Veggie.. having just come back from a hard day on the slopes the last thing I wanted was a protein supplement, meat free dinner ... to this day I have no objection to making alternative meals for people's dietary needs or beliefs, but they should respect mine as well.
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