{"id":7635,"date":"2020-02-25T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T14:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7635"},"modified":"2020-02-25T14:57:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T14:57:24","slug":"wheres-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7635","title":{"rendered":"Where’s the snow?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tourist offices in the Alps publish figures for the amounts of snow in their resorts. Usually you get 2 figures, one for the lower slopes at village level, and another for the upper slopes near the top of the ski area. To provide the measurements, a marked pole is set into the ground. Here’s ours:<\/p>\n

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As you can see, we could certainly do with some snow. Thankfully we have a big snowmaking system. This means that we can still ski back to the village, despite there being no natural snow. The artificial runs do look a bit odd though. This is the view from Grindelwald looking up towards Scheidegg.<\/p>\n

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Val’s not working today, so we had a nice lunch while we were there. As you can see from the picture it’s a gloomy day, but snow is forecast for later this evening. Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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