The snow stopped sometime last night, the sky cleared, and it’s a beautiful day. Up we go to Scheidegg. There are just a few runs open, but it’s enough for us.
There’s masses of snow, but the important Christmas holidays are coming so the cannons keep on running.
It was pretty busy, I think just about everyone went up today. We have guests for dinner tonight, so I’d better start cooking.
We had a good dinner with our pies last night, and I completely forgot to take any photos. While we were eating it started snowing, and it continued all night. The council were out early clearing the paths.
Val had to pop up to the village. It’s eerily quiet at the moment – the weather’s keeping everyone indoors.
As I write this it’s still snowing, but the forecast for tomorrow is better, so we might get up the hill for a ski.
Val had her German class this morning, and this afternoon we had a short walk in the sunshine.
The village looks like a scene from a Christmas card.
2 lifts are running on the nursery slopes now, and the cable car is being tested ahead of its opening this weekend.
I ordered some pies from a butcher in Bern last week, so tonight we’ll have a pie party.
It snowed all night, and finally stopped at lunchtime. We did our shopping and I cleared the terrace and the balcony again. We’ve had over half a metre of snow in the past few days.
This afternoon we grabbed the snow shoes and headed up to the village.
The snow is very deep and it’s quite hard going.
There’s a lift running for the kids now.
The ice rink was being prepared this afternoon, so we’ll soon be able to go curling.
We had a huge snowfall overnight, Phillipp from Central Sport measured 44 centimetres on his balcony. That’s going to mean a lot of digging later on, but now we’re off to see the huge new lift that opened yesterday – the Eiger Express. It runs from Grindelwald up to Eigergletscher. The lift station at the bottom is more like a shopping centre or an airport. Lots of shops.
A noodle bar.
A big sports shop with ski hire.
There are lots of hospitality outlets too. Most importantly however, there’s a Lindt chocolate shop with a splendid pick ‘n mix.
We got on the lift to go up to Eigergletscher. The weather’s awful, so it’s not busy. Each gondola seats 26 people, and we had one to ourselves.
There are 44 of these gondolas, and the journey to the top takes just 15 minutes. The top station at Eigergletscher is huge.
From here you can go skiing, or catch the train up to the Jungfraujoch, which is the real reason that the lift was built. It’s all pretty impressive, but for 500 million francs I suppose it should be.
Our ski area opened for business today, and quite a few people came up from the lowlands to have a go. They must have been very determined, as the weather was cold and grey with frequent banks of fog rolling up from the valley. We left them to it and went shopping in Interlaken.
It snowed again last night and I spent 20 minutes sweeping it all off the terrace. Rolf from the tourist office, who lives in the house next door, has built an igloo in his garden.
It’s due to snow again tonight – more sweeping tomorrow.
The weather was cold and overcast all day. A storm in the mountains disrupted the trains, so our attempt to get down to Interlaken came to nothing. We collected our skis from Central Sport where they had been serviced, and bought some of the fabric masks that we’ll be required to wear on the ski lifts. The ski area opens tomorrow, but if the weather forecast is to be believed we’ll probably leave it until Monday.
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