ski or après ski ?

We had a plan ! gary is a total beginner so we decide we would take a 40minuit bus journet to a place 3-4 valleys away and follow the long blues back to st anton and the bus journey to lech was very pleasant once there we took a gondola to the top and right out the gondolla onto the first slope the main group took off me and gary had a chat and bosch !gary couldn’t slow himself down he was off down the slope out of control he seene the group headed for them 1 unfortunately he had listened to my brother who had said if you think your going to fall sit down and fall ! thats ok if you sit left or right of a ski , but no he sat between his kids lost the ability to steer himself and sped up ! wiped ali out 5 mins into the first slope and i thought we were two men down , they brushed it of and moved on no permanent damage done 

the group headed off and we got gary going again but he needs to learn how to slow down and stop so it was hard work for everyone, the main group set off to leave just me and gary until lunch in the hope we could work out a way of getting his ski style up to something we could make some distance with . ! it was a fail we had a lovely lunch in a picturesque alpine chalet and after lunch garys legs were shot being stuck in the crouched snow plough position will kill your quads its like constantly squatting , he was calling it a day bus back to st anton when we got back to lech , the skiers headed over the road and done a 20 mile route to ski back on various slopes , we did get a wee fright when a bubble car we were on stopped dead in the middle of the clouds it was earie ,but once out on the slopes above the clouds it was fantastic and a quick fun 20 mile of skiing , the only issue was the dreaded black 52 route that funnelled all skiers back to st anton and we looked at any other options to avoid it as its not fun , after much discussion unless we take chair lifts around there was no other way but to ski the busy icy mogulled steep section of black 52 . the runs in alberg area are number some resorts name them but the Austrian number system is good . theres 309 runs of various colours mostly red this is not a beginners resort , we witnessed an helicopter evacuation its an experience to stand on the snow right below a helicopter , i asked cammy to film it but he didn’t want to bring his phne out on the slope with the down wind and snow flurries ,

          but our afternoon skiing was good the crew are flying over the slopes 

  we got to krazy kangaroo and met gary there . he certainly can smash the apes ski ! dinner was excellent as usual in chalet tyrolhause but everybody was shatter ali had a sore knee cammy didn’t even go out after dinner it was just me and gary by 10pm bar 37 and piccadilly . gary fell o the ice walking home in the same spot he fell the previous night !