La Berra - La Roche, 6 February 2005
6th February 2005
After yesterday I nearly didn’t go out at today, I was concerned it’d just be too busy everywhere to be pleasant, as it was I didn’t leave the house until after 11am. I’d thought about going to Gstaad, driving from the Col des Mosses yesterday I’d noticed how little traffic was coming up to Château-d’Oex from Bulle so I thought it would be quiet, I’d looked at the web cam and it seemed quiet as well.
But, I decided to risk the local hill, La Berra. It’s only 30mins or so from home and I decided if the car park was too busy I’d head round to Gstaad anyway. It’s strange how places vary, Les Mosses yesterday and La Berra could both be described as family stations. What makes the difference is the families, at Les Mosses family was just code for people related by blood who didn’t really care about any else around them whereas today it was just families enjoying a day out.
A family walking their dog on the summit of La Berra made me smile :
The skiing was great, I hopped onto the first lifts without any queues, headed onto a black piste where I was the only skier and found the slope excellent, steep with a variation of terrain on the way down and fairly demanding to ski. I found an off piste gully that had basically spring snow at the top into a shaded glade with some variable terrain in it. The top lifts remained open until 16:45 taking advantage of the evening sunshine, the runs up there were great as well. In fact a fantastic day skiing all round.
The other great thing about La Berra is you can about see our house from the top, you can’t quite see it because we live in a small valley but it’s there somewhere. For perspective the line of hills on the horizon is the Jura and (you’ll need to click through to the full version probably) on the left side you can see the partially frozen Lac Gruyère. Actually Lac Gruyère is where our tap water comes from, so that probably explains why it’s so cold !!
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