Well, it’s pretty safe to say we’re not going to get snowed-in any time soon, but it’s a pretty cool mixture of weather all round us – sunny up at Atalas, dramatic over towards Chamonix, and a bit ominous looking towards the Rogneux…
Looking up at the Funispace:
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Looking towards Chamonix:
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Looking over at the Rogneux:
Not that we’re big fans of gloating, but I just wanted to let you know what Verbier looks like of a morning in September. It’s not entirely unpleasant…
Well, the source of all the noise in the flat above Performance HQ has revealed. Yes, they’ve been smashing up everything in the apartment and to share their delight they’ve plonked a skip outside the front door. Bless.
Still. on the plus side there’s a dirty rumour it’ll snow this afternoon above mid-station…
We’ve started laying bets on the date of the first snow in town, the smart money is currently on late October, but we all hope we’re wrong and it starts tomorrow. There’s a growing sense of excitement about the coming season. Not long now.
Now, being British I’m pretty used to the disruption caused by road works in the UK. I used to live in London and digging holes in otherwise perfectly functional roads was a source of great regional pride amongst the councils and boroughs.
So you can imagine my delight when the Swiss decided to show their own road mending skills at the start of the summer – the Route de Creux (from Place Central up to Savoleyres) got the treatment and all sorts of large, noisy, slightly badly smelling machinery spent a week or two yomping up and down the road repairing the damage the winter had done.
The freezing temperatures are, after all, a pretty big problem for mountain roads (look up freeze/thaw in your old GCSE geography books). But that was in May.
Then they did it again mid summer. And now they’re back.
This is all the more vexing as they spent a fortune on mending the roads so Lance Armstrong and the rest of the Tour de France could nip up to Verbier (and I have to admit, no small factor in adding to my frustration is that I live on the Route de Creux).
But perhaps they’re practicing, perhaps they’ve fixed all the other roads in Verbier and have to start at the beginning again, or perhaps they’ve just decided to make the road to Savoleyres absolutely perfect.
But whatever the reason they’re at it again, and as I type there a fifteen blokes standing around with shovels, smoking endless cigarettes and (to the untrained eye) adding very little to the whole process.
Still, if you visit us this winter you’ll have super run up to Les Essertes. It’ll be like a snooker table by the time these boys have finished.
- Well, the nice people at Planet Ski have already been writing about us. Have a look – it's a great site… http://www.planetski.eu/news/824 G #
- We have a company credit card?? I'm off to London for a week so that leaves only Guy in charge. I have every confidence. N #
- Coffee with Rosi. There's a film title in that somewhere. Snow up high tomorrow though: http://bit.ly/kW2kW. G #
- Think we've got a nice new website up, running and generally looking all pretty. We'll be adding more pictures soon: performanceverbier.com #
- I´m sitting here 1700 km away and the only thing i can say is please do not!! Like that is going to help…… K #
- What Toby doesn't know is that Nicol and I are taking the company credit card to Geneva for the weekend. Happy days. G (PS not too cold out) #
