Thursday, May 19, 2022

Returning to Australia

Back in May of 1972, about 50 years ago, I don’t clearly remember how I decided to rejoin Alexis Saudan and his French ski school at Mt. Buller for another ski season. 

Initially, I was supposed to join JP Chatellard at the Orange lifts / Austrian ski school under Walter Frois leadership, but must have gotten cold feet along the way. 

It’s true that my ski season in Avoriaz was a rough, contentious one, and that left me little time to plan ahead for what I would do during the following summer season, but suffice to say that I defaulted to the easy, routine choice of the known element that was Alexis and his team. 

That year, only Gérard Bouvier, Philippe Coutaz and Christophe’s, Saudan’s son would be returning.

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