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Last night we went down to Interlaken for Val’s ski school dinner. Lovely Italian restaurant – I had squid and Val tried spaghetti with giant prawns. It got predictably silly later on and we got back to Wengen around 1am.

This morning it’s sunny again, and even warmer than yesterday. The concert is on at Scheidegg and 9,500 people will be going up on the train. It seems a good idea to go in the opposite direction, so we head down to the lake at Bönigen. 

Lauterbrunnen in the sun.

Looking back towards the yacht club on lake Brienz. 

The steamers have started their summer operations. We enjoyed ice creams at the quay in the sunshine. 

It’s 22 degrees on our balcony at dinner time. Time to blow the dust off the barbecue I think.

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At this time of year when the weather is nice it pays to be up early, so we’ve arranged to meet Ally in time for the 8.54 up to Scheidegg. For the first few runs the snow is still frozen solid from last night – it’s a rough ride but at least it’s fast. Then, at around 10am, the sun works its magic and the pistes begin to soften. The skis zing through the snow and very enjoyable it is too. We ran into Nick from Grindelwald up on Wixi. 

The sun continues to soften the snow until it begins to get slushy. The run down to Brandegg has a lot of shady bits and was really nice.

We got the train back up to Scheidegg and surfed through the slush back to the village. The temperature was +19C when we arrived. It’s more like summer than spring. 

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We had a jolly evening out at Rocks last night, with Akim providing the music. Things started to get out of hand when Alice decided to restyle Mike’s hair.

Never one to be left out, Mary-Anne had a go at doing Steve’s hair while he was trying to eat his dinner.

Despite all this, Val and Alice managed to get the 8.24 train up to Scheidegg this morning for work. Lots of musical stuff is arriving for tomorrow’s concert.

It’s been a much colder day today, but apparently the weekend should be warm and sunny.

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It’s windy at Scheidegg with half the lifts closed, but down here in the village it’s a beautiful day – people are wandering around in tee shirts. Work on the cable car continues apace.

They have 8 weeks to get everything built, tested and certified before it opens for the summer season at the beginning of June.

There’s a curling tournament going on with teams from Wengen and Mürren. Jana is playing, so Val looked after Oskar this morning. 

Val’s colleague Alice is coming over from Grindelwald for the evening, and Akim is playing in Rocks. 

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We had a good night out in Rocks yesterday with Steve and Colin playing what will probably be the last gig of winter.

Windy and gloomy up at Scheidegg today, Val got this shot of preparations for the Snowpenair concert at the weekend. It’s always hard to believe they’ll be finished in time.

Yesterday was the last day of skiing up at Männlichen, and new cabins have been ordered for the cable car. They didn’t waste any time removing the old ones.

It’s Tuesday, so we’ll all be on the 17.03 train down the hill for half price fish & chips at the Three Tells pub in Matten later.

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Val was away early this morning and I caught the train up to Scheidegg a little later and had a ski around the area. I must admit I expected it to be really busy, but apart from the usual hot spots on Wixi and Lauberhorn it was pretty quiet. I had Fallboden all to myself.

Back at Scheidegg there’s a bit more traffic, but nothing to worry about.

We skied back to the village and had lunch in the sunshine at the Figeller bar.

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It snowed again overnight. Scheidegg now has over 2 metres of coverage snd some of the signage is proving to be too short.

All this new snow needs to be made safe for the skiers. Piste machines scurry about doing their work. Outside the teepee this SOS guy is playing the role of lollipop man. 

We’re hoping this is the end of the snowfalls for this winter – we certainly don’t need any more, and it would be nice to see the sun again.