Viewing Stand for Men's World Down-Hill Skiing Championship
The Summer Crowd
The actual men's piste being modified by earth-moversWell above you can see the men's world championship downhill ski slope for Feb 09. In the top photo you can see them building the viewing stand. The current crowd will have moved to lower pastures for the world championships in Feb 2009....and I'm sure the place will look significantly trendier.
But here you have it and the native crowd in Oct 08.
Up to the left of the picture is the actually slope which is very steep and currently has 3 large bulldozers, hymacs on it reshaping the mountain.
I hope those guys are getting danger money cos it looked pretty bloody scary to me...they must have been operating at 50 degrees or more from the vertical...yikes. No wonder my homies were hanging out well away from them.
But here you have it and the native crowd in Oct 08.
Up to the left of the picture is the actually slope which is very steep and currently has 3 large bulldozers, hymacs on it reshaping the mountain.
I hope those guys are getting danger money cos it looked pretty bloody scary to me...they must have been operating at 50 degrees or more from the vertical...yikes. No wonder my homies were hanging out well away from them.
These homies are native mountain breeds of cattle called Tarine or abondance and they are really suited to mountain conditions. They spend the summer in the high pastures (alpages ) between 1500 and 2500 m and have mobile milking parlors attending to their needs.
They come down from the alpages around the 15th september called the demontagnée and hang out in the lower slopes until the weather forces them indoors for the winter.
One of their features is their eye-shadow (the cow in the picture is actually an abondance not a tarine famed for their eyeshadow...or more accurately the morning-after eyeshadow look)...dark and mysterious.
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