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The forecast told us that today would be warm and sunny again, so it’s a spring skiing day. We got up really early and caught the 8.45 cable car up to Männlichen. The pistes are pretty firm early on,  and it’s gloomy in the shadows.

But the sun gets to work, and the snow begins to soften. Every 10 minutes or so the cable car deposits another 70 skiers at the top of the hill. Down they all come.

We have coffee and head for Scheidegg, where it’s a lot quieter. Pistes getting quite soft now.

We finish off with a glorious romp down Wixi and ski home via Mary’s. By midday it’s really hot and it’s time for lunch and a drink on the balcony.

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It’s sunny and very warm today, perfect weather for walking. We catch the little train to Murren.

Murren is much smaller than Wengen and there are a lot less people about. Lovely views across to our side of the valley.

Half way along the walk we approach the mountain restaurant at Winteregg.

There’s a ski race for the kids here today and I’ve never seen it so busy.

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After all the snow, we now have wind. Lifts at the top began to close at lunchtime.

Lovely meal at Sina’s last night, and we said farewell to the Barrs. It was great to see you, thanks for being such good company.

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It was snowing hard when we woke up this morning. Up at Männlichen it was positively stormy, with zero visibility. We needed to lose some height so we caught the gondola down to Holenstein and skied from there. It continued to snow all day.

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An action packed day today. We started off with racing on the Lauberhorn.

Jan skiing awesomely well on her new skis today, did Wixi, lift to bridge in one go.  Later on we had a spot of curling.

And of course off to the pub later.

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Lovely dinner at chez Barr last night, played bingo afterwards!
The weather’s been a bit changeable this week, and sure enough it was foggy this morning. We got the 08.54 up to Scheidegg and hoped for the best. We were lucky today, the sun came out.

World’s best apple pie for elevenses.

Back in the village a jumper lands on the nursery slope. This is not allowed and he’ll get a talking-to once he’s packed up.

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Good night out at the Sunstar yesterday. Colin & Steve in good form.

A few snaps of the appreciative audience.

Had a good ski again today, and a lovely lunch at Aspen. A couple of pics of Georgia and Livvy skiing home.