Gloomy today, popped up for a quick ski after lunch. At Holenstein.
Swiss kids get days out learning to ski in January.
The Lauberhorn races start tomorrow, so tonight the racers draw their start numbers for the Supercombination.
One of the nice things about competitive skiing is that you can meet and have a chat with your heroes. Here’s Carlo Janka (Switzerland):
And Dominik Paris (Italy)
We ran into Beanie and Aliena on the train. They got out at Allmend to go tobogganing.
At the top it’s a beautiful morning, very few people around. The snow is perfect.
No queuing at all.
At the top of the Lauberhorn the racers are doing their training runs. They are not allowed to race if they don’t complete these.
It clouded over later, and we’re expecting a little more snow tonight.
Most of the time it’s a good life being a cat in Wengen – no cars, lots of birds to chase. But if your owners live on the first floor and you rely on a precarious cat ladder to get home things get a bit tough when it snows. Here’s Rudi from next door struggling home this evening.
Right now we’re in Rocks and there’s a party going on. Everyone’s looking forward to skiing on the new snow tomorrow.
Beautiful day up the mountain, glorious sunshine and wonderful views.
We stayed out until the sun went over the hill. Last run down was a bit gloomy, but we have the mountain to ourselves.
Looking north the lowlands are covered in fog. Looks like the weather will change tomorrow.
Very foggy this morning, and as you know fog is the only weather that prevents us skiing. No mountain pictures therefore, and we felt very sorry for the Asian visitors who come here for a few hours and failed to see the view.
On a brighter note, the Inghams reps organised the first quiz of the season tonight. Our team ‘Don’t ski to Mary’s’ finished in first place.
All the chairlifts are running today, so for the first time this season we can go up to Mannlichen and ski round to Scheidegg. It’s a bit gloomy but not too bad.
Temperatures are higher than yesterday, but everyone is still well wrapped up.
The snow has moved on, but the polar air that brought it here hasn’t. Minus 13 when we woke up this morning. But the sun is shining so we went up the hill after lunch. A few pics.
Went to the cinema tonight to see ‘Allied’ with Brad Pitt. Everyone but me seemed to enjoy it.
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