I arrived in Annecy at 10am and dropped my bags off. I went straight back to the train station and bought a return bus ticket and ski pass for the ski resort "The Grand Bornand" in the French Alps, one hour from Annecy on the bus. The bus ride was very pleasant and scenic. I hired my skis from the town and headed up the mountain on the telecabines. I've only been skiing once before, and that was for three days more than four years ago, so understandably I was a little rusty. The slopes are divided into four levels of difficulty: green, blue, red and black from beginner to advanced. I took the closest green route I could find, and was doing ok, but I didn't realise that the green slope crossed a blue slope,
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