Nice dinner with Sally & Paul before we waved goodbye last night.
The mini golf is open and doing a good trade.
Babbling brook running down the nursery slope towards the village.
Up in the woods there’s a carpet of wild flowers.
Good party in Rocks last night to celebrate Clive & Alison’s 30th anniversary. Here’s a picture we called ‘The three Mikes’. Erin wanted to be in it.
Every year, at the end of the winter season we have a concert up at Scheidegg called Snopen Air. Today the piste machines began preparing the ground for the stage to be built. They’ve made a bit of a mess of the run down to Wixi but we picked our way through.
Lovely curry last night, the new restaurant seems to be doing very well. Männlichen gave us some incredible views this morning.
We skied round to Scheidegg on deserted pistes.
Michael and Erin at Scheidegg.
Went up to Scheidegg this morning and had a ski around, by lunchtime the sun had turned the snow to slush. The home run is now closed, so here’s a picture of summery Wengen taken from the train.
Curry tonight, yum yum.
We had another successful quiz last night.
Today the sun was shining brightly when we went up the hill, and the ‘extra’ hour that we get in the morning since the clocks changed really helps the snow conditions. Männlichen chairlift is one of the most popular in the entire area, yet we were the only customers when we got there at lunchtime.
The village is beginning to close down. The lower runs are closed and some of the hotels will shut their doors this week.
Paul and Sally arrived yesterday afternoon, so Paul and I were off up to Männlichen this morning. Literally couldn’t see anything when we got out of the gondola. We had coffee and things began to improve enough for a bit of skiing. After a quick lunch the fog rolled in again.
Back to the village therefore. Quiz later tonight after the football.
You might remember this event from last season. The challenge today is to get from the bottom of the men’s downhill course to the top as quickly as possible. There are no rules concerning how you go about this as long as you don’t use anything motorised, but most people use running shoes fitted with crampons
Competitors congregate in the village.
Today however we have a problem. There’s a big storm up the hill and no trains are going up the mountain, nor are any ski lifts running. The big cloud over the Jungfrau gives a clue to the severity of the storm.
Nevertheless the race goes ahead on a shortened course to ensure the safety of the racers. We walk to the stadium to see the start.
Our next-door neighbour Jana is doing the race with her friend, as are Hayley and Nuala. A gun fires and they’re off.
The race today will end at the top of Bumps; this is an ascent of about 500 metres vertical. A stiff climb for sure, but some way off the 1100 vertical metres that the full course measures.
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