When I left resort this morning it was snowing
Came back with half a group of ten, the other half were in a colleagues van, so we drover back (mostly) together. Until we got half way up the mountain (ok, a bit more than halfway!). He lost traction and stopped, I managed to get past and a bit further up and then struggled a bit too.
Stupidly, I didn't think to use the manual gearing on the automatic, but had two further goes at getting going and managed, so drove all the way up to the clubmed at 2100! I was very happy
Mostly because I bastard hate putting chains on but also because Xav didn't manage to get going.
What has p'd me off a bit is that neither van had chains in
Ok, it isn't a legal requirement and I hadn't checked because I'd just assumed that they would be in the van
. The legal stuff is "winter tyres, snow chains or snow socks". BUT - personally I've always had winter tyres and carried chains. Because, as today proved, just occasionally the conditions mean that chains are a good back up! (warm conditions, so the snow that fell initially was melty and the corner we both struggled on is dodgy with ice anyway, so just sometimes you do need chains regardless of the tyres - although in 6 winters of doing transfers I've only needed to use chains three times!!!
)
But, anyway - I made it and when Xav commented later, I just said - well, I drive like a girl, you should try it!! Not sure the phrase translated that well, but his ego was already dented, so nothing I said was gonna help that French male ego
Had to do two more short transfers from the valley, and before coming back up from the first of these, the boss made me change vehicles into a 4WD Passat. Funny though cos that next drive up the road was completely clear. But when I came back up the last time, it was all sorts of stopped vehicles again - the auto Traffic might have made it but I was kinda glad to be in the Passat tho
Suffering from the clocks going forward so, early night then back to the office tomorrow. Weird week to come as I've had friends in resort for the last four weeks and now there's no visitors
Probably best, I'm bloody knackered from working too many hours and trying to keep up with friends a bit too!!
,I'll post about that later.
Very peeved to find there was only one sachet left this morning 
