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Beautiful sunny day today. We got up early and headed up to Scheidegg. Everyone skiing very well.

Smiling faces on Wixi and Lauberhorn.

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We ate in last night, lots of yummy pizzas from the Co-op. Up early this morning for exercises with Hayley up at Männlichen, then lots of skiing. After coffee.

And here I am watching my athlete perform on the steep section, which we used to call Meltdown Hill.

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After all the excitement of curling last night we thought we’d pop over to Murren today. Here’s Hayley & Val contemplating their plan of attack down a steep face on the way down.

And cruising having dealt with it.

Back to Wengen and a few beers before dinner.

Weather’s still mild and dry.

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Curling is always good fun. We gather up enough people to make 4 teams and have a couple of hours at the rink. At the end nobody knows who won or lost, but we all had a great time. Apologies Hayley, I am so rubbish I didn’t get a single decent photo of you!

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Very warm today, with wall to wall sunshine.

We got the train up to Scheidegg and skied around,  then went to Brandegg for lunch, and pottered back to the village for beers at the Figeller bar on the nursery slope.

Pre – dinner drinks in the Pickel Bar last night.

The warm weather gave rise to an avalanche this afternoon.

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Paul and Hayley arrived last night, so up the hill we went today accompanied by Ozzy. Paul hasn’t skied for many years, but skills that you learn at a young age never leave you.

Hayley just skied like a champ, as always.

We all skied round to Scheidegg this afternoon, and a good time was had by all.

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Every January Grindelwald hosts the Snow Festival. Lots of stuff happens through the week, but the highlight is the snow sculpture competition. Teams from all over the world are given a few cubic metres of snow, and told to get on with it. Here’s the British entry.

It was quite mild today, and while I was snapping the British sculpture, the very elaborate French entry next door collapsed before my eyes. I hope the judges had already seen it. Swiss sculpture.

Swedish.

And the kids from the local school get to do one. Here’s their Ying & Yang.

The sun came out later, so by now they may all have been reduced to a pile of slush.