FollowLovely meal last night at the Caprice for our anniversary, and a super surprise of a bottle of Moët – thanks Hayley!
This morning dawned gloomy and drab. We got up anyhow and made our way up to the village; at least it wasn’t raining. Val had a chat with Hercule who is director of the Ski School about her job next season – it all sounds fine. Up the hill we went to Scheidegg, where we had coffee watching light snow through the bahnhof window.
Scheidegg was deserted – the poor weather had been forecast so many people must have made other plans. Being British we decided to have a ski. On days like these we wear ‘happy glasses’. These are sunglasses fitted with orange lenses; the idea being that they provide the eyes with increased contrast by filtering out faster wavelengths of light. They do work a bit – Val finds them more effective than I do but I wouldn’t be without them on days like this:
Normal vision
With happy glasses!
Off we go down Arven and we ski a nice circuit to Tschuggen and Gummi before finding our way back to Scheidegg. We decide to beat a retreat back to the village, so we head off down the rat run and down to Mary’s cafe. We literally didn’t see another skier the whole way down.
Bumps, deserted
Once we get below the tree-line our eyes have something to work with and our visibility is restored. The lack of sun means that the snow is much firmer than it has been the last few days and we tear down the hill towards Mary’s enjoying some speed for the first time today.
Val rips down the meadow above Mary’s cafe
