With the ski season right in the thick of things, we were finally heading off to try our hand at skiing. Eight of us had committed to a week of skiing and snowboarding in the French and Swiss Alps. For most of us this was our first attempts at the sport - given all of us were Aussies or Kiwi's I guess that's not too much of a stretch. We flew into Geneva, Switzerland and picked up our cars and headed towards the Portes Du Soleil region a couple of hours away. This region is dubbed 'the Gates of the Sun' - a massive ski area (apparently the worlds largest) which is formed from a chain of villages strung along the French-Swiss border. It has some 650km of downhill slopes (catering for all skill levels) and
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