Even with the miserable weather we have been experiencing over the past month they are continuing with the Bruson lift installation. Certainly no arguing whether it is going to happen now!

 

Yes, since Toby blogged the videos of Verbier getting another dump TeleVerbier have been promising to open the lifts if over a thousand of us liked their Facebook post. Naturally about ten million people instantly liked, shared, Tweeted, and Social-Mediad the thing but despite promising to open if the weather was good / safe, the weather is rubbish for the weekend so no June skiing jankers for us.

By way of compensation we have had marching bands in town – well, if you’re on a Bank Holiday what else do you do?

Meanwhile there was a little reference to opening in the summer at Mont Fort if TeleNendaz were up for it. We’ll keep you posted…

 

 

 

So there I was lying in bed on a Sunday morning and the wife says “Lets go ski touring” and I am like “yer, whatever , it’s the 26th May, the season’s over”. But as you know once your married you are not an individual any more, your a ‘team’. So in other words, do what your told..!

Anyway, it turned out to be a fun little trip up to Ruinette from Carrefour. And the snow was rather good..!

 

Yes, it’s (almost) the end of the winter and before the population of Verbier (and specifically the Performance Team) disappears off on their travels for the summer we had a bot of a day out in the sunshine.

Of course, there is a decided amount of footage that we weren’t able to share with you as this is a family show, but the sight of Stuart dressed in drag was at the centre of most of the editing process..

There his, however, a mighty fine collection of videos that will be shared imminently, but in the meantime here’s a glimpse of the magic that was the Retro Beach Party.

 

As you will well know, the Verbier Xtreme is a freeride competition down the Bec des Rose that also provides the final event of the Freeride World Tour. Which is basically a competition that travels the world testing the planet’s best skiers and snowboarders by getting them to jump off things that are frankly terrifying…

The result is a smashing day sitting at col des Gentianes watching the competition and an evening having a beer strolling up and down a very busy rue de Medran and usually eating food from the tents that appear for the weekend. The kebab stand is particularly important.

Anyway, this is what happened…

It’s been a little while since Verbier felt springlike and just about as long since we had a blue sky powder day. But the two turned up together yesterday and its definitely something we could get used to…