Flashback: World Cup in Avoriaz

As January comes to a close, I've almost forgotten an important fortieth anniversary. On Friday, January 11, 1974, at the Pataca night club in Morzine, when my good friend Jean-Pierre Chatelard and Scott Henderson, then coach of the Canadians, downed an entire bottle of scotch while laughing and redesigning the world.

The next day, I was working the downhill course in Avoriaz, the run was frozen stiff and so was my head. Switzerland's Roland Collombin won the day and this Saturday was to become a turning point in my career. Too much drinking helped me come to the cathartic decision to finally leave the Avoriaz ski school and start a career in the supplier-side of the ski industry.

The rest is history!