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Europe 2006 - SMK Camp
There's not always a seat on the train
Top of the World at Les Deux Alpes, SMK Camp
SMK Snowboard Camp
in Les Deux Alpes France promises a week or a summer of fun for those of you
who can't stay away from snow all summer. Run by snowboard entrepreneur and
veteran camper Eduardo Perez, he aims to improve on all the weaknesses of
other snowboard camps he's attended. Campers and staff have lodgings just
steps away from each other so campers can hobnob with coaches off the snow
too. The camp is well organized with a time schedule, and plenty of time
scheduled for fun, like practicing tricks on the camps trampolines
Snowboarders wait at the bus station in Grenoble to get to
Les Deux Alpes
Dinner at SMK Camp in Les Deux Alpes. The only camp with orientation by Power Point
presentation!
Setting up the campers' boards at SMK Camp
Anticamp Team from Spain
Les Deux Alpes
2 Halfpipes side by side
There were 2 halfpipes,
side by side this year. When I was at this same park in 2003 the 2 pipes
were end to end, so you could ride one, take a quick break, and ride the
other. The halfpipes at Les 2 Alpes close for the day by 11:30 or so on a
sunny day in the summer. The sun softens the snow so much that the pipes
must be closed to preserve their shape.
You don't have to get big air to
have fun at snowboard camp
weather report - parfait!
The 5 minute-long main T-bar lift at Les Deux
Alpes can be a monster to people like me who are used to sitting on their
butts on a chairlift and admiring the scenery while gliding effortlessly up
Hunter or other mountains.
Besides keeping your balance while riding over gulleys with rivulets of
water flowing down (while the little rivers try to suck your snowboard into
their tracks and not let them escape) there is the added exciting feature
that snowboarders and skiers who have already become accidentally detached
from the T-bar ahead of you will try to join you on the T-bar half way up
while it is moving (even though you are screaming NNNNOOOOoooooooooo!!!!!)
Being knocked off the bar by a skier trying to join me, happened to me twice
in a row, and itıs not a complete tragedy when they knock you off, but it
means you have to go back down and wait in line again and suffer the whole
T-bar humiliation all over again. The line is only about 5 minutes, which
was plenty of time for the guy next to me to roll and smoke 2 whole tobacco
cigarettes. Oh those Europeans and their butts!
SMK Camp has a trampoline
Cafe in Les Deux Alpes
Gondola: it's a 40 minute trip up to the park
The Bike Park in Les Deux Alpes
More pictures of SMK Camp
