So, the sun is out, it’s been out for quite a bit and looks set to stay out until Christmas. Well, Christmas-ish.

Yes, for the budding weathermen and women amongst you, you will be aware that there’s a whopping area of high pressure that’s settled in across Europe and doesn’t want to go anywhere, so Verbier is consistently getting sunny days, cold temperatures and that groundhog day feeling. Still, the fantastic sunshine does give you chance to admire our fantastic new uniforms and debate if it’s orange, tangerine, saffron or egg yolk. I’m firmly behind saffron, if you’re asking.

What does this look like? Well, epic actually. And whilst these snaps show you that it’s all dead pretty I can also confirm the pistes are skiing really well and are in great condition after the heavy snow of a couple of weeks ago. Naturally more would be nice, but we’ll have to cross our fingers and be good.

 

 

Want more? Well how about Martin ski touring up Mont Fort?

Yes our intrepid Martin decided to put DJ and David in the hurt locker and hike up to Mont Fort. They nearly made it but after realising that it’s miles they made a tactical withdrawal after getting most of the way there. Very sensible in my humble opinion. What did it look like? Well like this…

Just been skiing with Jim and ticked off Chassoure-Tortin, Mont Fort, Gentiennes and Col des Mines. It was amazing and the views at the top were stunning… It’s a tough job.

The view from Atalas…

And the view from Mont Fort…

An unexpected blue sky day meant that Verbier’s most famous areas were all open and in great condition – including Mont Fort and Mont Gelé, where Karolina was up this morning and got these stunning shots…

Another big night in town last night as everyone went slightly bonkers welcoming in the new decade. As per usual Place Central was carnage, but four the first time in five years we didn’t head there, and watched the whole thing unfold from Jo and Gareth’s balcony. A great vantage point to see the thousands and thousands of fireworks going off across town.

Our favourite was definitely coming from somewhere above the Sport Centre. At the time we thought it looked like the display at the Millennium Wheel, but we could be wrong. Suffice to say we all went “Oooooh” and “Ahhhhh” a lot.

Anyway, Happy New Year from everyone here and you’ll be delighted to hear we’ve got snow coming Sunday night…

Having managed to wangle off not only Christmas Day but also Boxing Day, I managed to get some impressive lie-ins and also get up the hill a bit. Admittedly we pretty much only got as far as Chez Dany on Christmas Day, but on Boxing Day we actually did some skiing.

So here are the rather dramatic views from Combatzeline…

Just got back and despite the cloud robing us of visibility in the afternoon, we had about a three hour window when everything was amazing. And it looked like this (well better actually as the clouds completely disappeared) – a bit of an early Christmas present really…