{"id":6215,"date":"2019-03-20T13:32:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2019-03-20T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:05:09","slug":"fourty-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6215","title":{"rendered":"Forty five"},"content":{"rendered":"

The weather has finally settled down, so we can go back to business as usual, which means the 9.45 cable car to M\u00e4nnlichen. It’s a lovely day.<\/p>\n

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Coffee in the Berghaus. We all seemed to stop at the same time.<\/p>\n

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Colin joined us for the last couple of hours. He needs to be back in the village by 1.30 as we have something of a gala evening coming up tonight – full report to come tomorrow. At 1pm we found ourselves at the top of the Lauberhorn. There’s a choice of routes down from here, the quickest being number 45.<\/p>\n

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This is the world cup downhill course. Twenty years ago this was 4 kilometres of sheer terror, but modern safety regulations have meant that the really tricky bits have all been sanitised to keep the racers safe. As a result the run is now a bit of a tourist attraction, with big groups of skiers pausing every couple of hundred metres to take photos. By half-way we managed to leave them all behind us, and we enjoyed the romp down to the finish area at Innerwengen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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