3h of the morning...
The alarm clock sounds, that fall well I did not need absolutely sleep... 4h30 recording of the luggage to the airport St Exupery (20 kg, a record with the fall!)... 6h30 the 1st takeoff... 8h arrived to Frankfurt, joy happiness 4 hours to kill in an armoured airport of world and controls of safety... 12h30, the 2nd takeoff for 10h30 of flight this blow Ci... Disappointment: the Frankfurt-Denver line is normally WiFi (if if, I ensure you) but only on the Boeing... And inevitably today it is A340... Such an amount of worse, not of skipass.com, not of abusive censure on our forums the time of a transatlantic way and especially a beautiful occasion of lost to be played it geek pathetic... But good, exchanges some we are entitled to the US remake of Taxi, cinematographic object improbable completion. The voyages form youth that y said: Ben with the airline companies youth is badly barred.
Efforts, continue!
A small encouraging note for our friends of American immigration, surprisingly more slackened this year, much Soviet to some extent. A photograph and a statement of prints later, Vail direction via the very practical shuttles at the beginning of the airport, almost familiar, of Denver (Colorado Mountain Express train, vans of 8 people, departure every hour for all the stations of Colorado. It was the council travels the day).
With the passage, a disconcerting detail: it makes 16° in Denver...
2h and of dust (past 20 H of way, one does not count any more the minutes) and a passage of collar of 3300 m (on a motorway, all is normal) later and it has been finally the arrival with Vail to find the TEAM Dynastar, arrived for a few days, with which I will spend the first 5 days of this escapade...
Vail, US Open Land
The US Open one is, with X-games, the largest competition of ski freestyle of the universe... Here are which is known as.
On the other hand, contrast with X is amusing: while arriving this morning, we would have almost believed ourselves in a compet' of province: little world, relaxed organization. One is well far from the enormous machinery of the big brother of Aspen, where it is not possible to make 1 meter in restricted parking zone if there is a red badge... And conversely...
Sportivement, the difference holds in a word: 'Open'. Whereas X-Games are strictly on invitation, the US Open one leaves to a few hundreds of more or less anonymous in broad and low trousers a possibility of being distinguished, during 2 days of qualification... Blow, that made a little casting TV Reality per moments ( go coconut, have you 2 runs, leave your more beautiful switch 7.2 , the jury looks at you ) and following the example castings it is sometimes a little longuet.
When one has not seen them for a few months, the quality of the American infrastructures freestyle always shocks. The United States always has an enormous length in advance on Europe, the comparison is not even possible besides. In addition to a park public step well far from the perfection, slopestyle of the competition present of the enormous modules of which largest, monumental, will be open only starting from the semi-finals, Friday. Disappointment on the other hand on the rails which had a long time been a trademark of the Open Custom: badly placed, rather badly foutus... It without fault is missed.
On the skis
Dimensioned Frenchies, only Laurent Thevenet passes the qualifs of slopestyle. It should be said that the average general level is properly incredible and all the
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