1. The Beginning of the End for Miguel Indurain
Tour de France, 1996. "Big Mig" has a jour sans on the road to Les Arcs. Chris Boardman finds it a tad tricky too. More here..
2. Top Gear aux Arcs
Watch Hammond et al descend from Arc 1950 to Villaroger. By car. Racing against the locals. On skis.
3. Skiing Today
Courtesy of my daughter.
4. Ski Joering:
Les Arcs seems to be one of the few places to practice this, er, unique activity.
5. Tour de France 2009
Sadly, they stopped in Bourg St Maurice rather than making the climb up to Les Arcs. And the winner of the stage was later tested positive. More here.
6. The 7e BCA
The Chasseurs Alpins have now left Bourg St Maurice - a big event, and one which will take some adapting to on a whole range of levels.
7. Mountain Biking on the Cachette
The red run above 1600 morphs into a notable VTT descente in summmer:
8. Panorama
This starts rather higher up, and gives a wonderful overview of Les Arcs' terrain during the summer.
9. Welcome to Paradise
It's hard to love the official Paradiski branding but hey ho:
10. The "LA Session"
I think the days of these February meetings have now gone, but they were quite something...
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