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Lech just as après ski was starting, the main street was busy as guests of the resort led the bars and restaurants. We passed through the town, atracting more than a little attention in the very dirty Longhorn Ram as its V8 gurgled past, once out the other siide we turned up the mountain road to a hotel where Jenny was waiting for us. After loading all the kit in the pickup we all drove back down to our hotel. As we turned back onto the mountain road there was a parking bay at with a snow mobile in it, “I’ll bet that is ours” I commented as we went back through the main street to check into the Hotel Lech, Chesa Rosa.
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arranged with local dealer Vonblan Power for one of their customers in Lech to lend us a snowmobile. They had arranged for us to have a Ranger, which is one of the most popular models, used extensively as a utility vehicle, but also recreationally for hunting and trail riding. Our Ranger was a three seater model with a covered pickup back, but had a full caterpillar track conversion; the four road wheels had been replaced by individual tracked assemblies giving the Ranger real ‘go anywhere’ ability. This was going to transport us, and our gear to the top of the slopes without the need to use any of the 88 lifts... and it would be much more fun.
The town was still sleeping on Thursday morning as we made our early start, there had been a fresh snowfall overnight and there were inches of
snow on the Ram as we loaded up. We left the hotel driving back through Lech and up the snow covered mountain road to collect the keys for our Ranger Snowtrack. The Ram made light work of the snow even when we left the road to the mountain hotels that are usually only accessed on foot. We transferred our gear to the snowmobile ready for our rst accent to the top. Jenny, Patrick and I would take the gear up whilst Lisa and Anna set the bindings of the Nitro snowboards that had been provided for the shoot, then Jenny would return to drive them up whilst we got the jump ready.
I pulled the gear selector into drive and steered toward the path, the tracks churning the freshly fallen snow. Following the winding path was easy work for the Polaris, then we made our way up the
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