Chamonix- Day 8

A well deserved rest day on Saturday, waving most people goodbye then updating this blog and publishing photos to all. Ian, Patrick and Jim and I went out for dinner in Chamonix onceI'd moved into the apartment in Forclaz, Cham Sud.

Today I headed up alone to Le Tour just for a 4 hr play round. The weather was beautiful- hot and sunny, but the off-piste conditions were chopped up, tracked and hard packed, the pistes were a better option but pretty hard packed with just a sprinkling of scuffed powder.

It was good excuse for me to practice my technique for cross-under turns, which went quite well. I went up the Autannes chair across the traverses and down to Esserts chair but the off piste there looked terrible and as I'm nursing a massively swollen left arm I was not tempted so I took the red run back to Autannes.

Of course I wanted more so I headed up and skiers left to the off piste and it was very choppy and although I was turning well, I suddenly hit the deck on a toe turn and reached out my left arm, pulled the shoulder again and curled up in screeching pain. You can see why (right pic)- the whole arm is bruised, the muscle torn and upper and fore arm swollen a lot!

So I went for lunch and a sunbathe looking out to Mont Blanc- huge queues for lunch but once I got a deckchair the arm had time to recover or at least ease the pain.

I went for a couple more runs on piste before taking the piste down to the bottom of Charamillon and straight onto a bus home.

Now I'm settling into cooking my own food and getting ready to work tomorrow, but have also gone out for some Arnica and trying to heal myself!