You can’t really complain when you wake up to this. Amazing. And the forecasts say clear all morning and VERY cold again…

Had a great day up there today –   not least of all as I was skiing in a down jacket an it was about minus 20…. But Verbier was looking fantastic – a bit like this:

Well, we decided to hike up to Nemaste, eat cheese, drink wine and then sledge down to meet the guys who’d just finished and passed their BASI level 2 (well done Grace, Archie and Angus). It was hysterical, fun, dangerous and highly competitive – the guys from Ski Center even waxed their sledges…

And it looked something like this:

Woke up to a it snowing pretty hard in resort this morning and that’s on the back of a pretty good fall last weekend of over a foot. In fact last weekend we were even catching fresh tracks down the pistes with 25cm of fresh, light snow on a nicely groomed base.

Forecasts say it’ll be heaviest between midday and 1400, so more to come…

Well, the answer’s very simple, your council hasn’t invested millions in a batallion of these monsters (and a small army of drivers) to come round at 5 in the morning every time it snows to clear your drives and the roads, and then whilst you’re out for the day to come back and clear all the piles of snow away again… Oh, and they miss my front window by about eighteen inches, it’s one hell of an alarm clock…

Really good conditions up there today – might have been a wee bit foggy but that just meant that the crowds stayed away and the pistes were nice and quiet – if tricky to see. Had a few inches of fresh on nicely groomed runs and down in the trees below Ruinettes it was brilliant. And then the sun came out…